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State of the University Web Department Survey
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jonathan Champ Dec 2.

Zend PHP Conference Recap

Started Nov 10

Meetup Survey

Started Nov 3

 

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Jonathan Champ replied to Jason Austin's discussion 'State of the University Web Department Survey'
Thanks Tony! I have a few quick questions if you don't mind. Is your CommonSpot installation purchased or licensed for a set time period? (If licensed, for how many years?) Is the cost on a site license basis or a per user basis? Is it hosted by Pa…
December 2
Tony Miller replied to Jason Austin's discussion 'State of the University Web Department Survey'
As glad-to-be-here guests, I guess I'll chime in with ECU's answers to these questions (I don't know if we participated): 1) Size [student body]: 20,000-30,000 (27,677) 2) Landscape: Decentralized (mostly, but like you at NCSU we've got both kinds)…
December 1
Glenn Hennessee commented on Jason Austin's group 'Mobile Web'
I found this article on mobile web application development http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7625/1.html
November 30
Jonathan Champ replied to Jason Austin's discussion 'State of the University Web Department Survey'
Anyone know the correct answers for NCSU as an institution?
November 30
Jonathan Champ replied to Jason Austin's discussion 'State of the University Web Department Survey'
Wow, just wow. I can't believe they tried to extrapolate data from that responses they received. It looks like half the people who responded don't know anything about their institution (filling in things like "Microsoft" and "Adobe" for their CMS).…
November 24
Jason Austin added a discussion
State of the University Web Department Survey
I follow the .eduGuru blog (http://doteduguru.com) and they recently did a survey about University Web Departments and how they were run. Here are the results. http://doteduguru.com/id3967-state-of-the-university-web-department-survey-results.html…
November 23
Don Schmidt replied to Jason Austin's discussion 'Interest in an iPhone development class?'
Another resource: http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/iphone/?CMP=ILC-orm_sponsor_footer_links&ATT=iphone
November 18
Don Schmidt replied to Jason Austin's discussion 'Interest in an iPhone development class?'
FYI Here are some resources: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596155452/
November 18

Profile Information

What department or college do you work for?
OIT in Outreach Technologies
What languages and applications do you focus on?
PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, Smarty, jQuery, mootools, XML, JSON, Subversion, Zend Studio (Eclipse), Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla
Web address or blog?
http://jasonawesome.com
URL to your twitter page (if you don't tweet, you should check out http://www.twitter.com)
http://www.twitter.com/jason_austin
AIM Screen Name:
CheezemoNC
Your LinkedIn profile page:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/9/3a5/a38
Tell us a little about yourself:
I've worked at NCSU in some capacity for 8 years, mostly focusing on application development.

Our group's main focus is on PHP and MySQL. We have drank the Zend Koolaid and do a LOT of work with Zend Framework and Zend Studio. We also heavily use jQuery and mootools as our primary javascript libraries. We use Smarty for templating right now. Lately we have been in the land of Drupal...but apparently everyone on campus is in that land now :)

We are big fans of version control, so we keep all our projects in subversion. You can check out or projects that we have going at http://webapps.ncsu.edu/lifecycle/.

Our applications focus mostly on internal support tools, but all of our work is open sourced. Another primary function of our job is helping people determine their workflows, then building applications that enhance that process. We also teach some classes (which a lot of you guys have been to) on Zend Framework, PHP5 and design patterns. We don't get to do it as much as we would like because we have a lot going on.

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Set Raleigh on Fire! #IgniteRaleigh 2009

Last night was the inaugural #IgniteRaleigh event at the Lincoln Theater downtown. If you are not familiar with what Ignite events are, the gist is that presenters have 5 minutes and 20 slides to talk about something. "Entertain us, but do it fast". It is basically a week-long conference worth of presentations, ideas, entertainment, and networking in 2 hours!

#IgniteRaleigh had 15 presentations, some good, some bad, some amazing! There wer… Continue

Posted on August 6, 2009 at 8:46am — 3 Comments

Jason Austin

iPhone Dev Book for our NCSU Web Dev Library

Hey yall!

Just an FYI, Steve and Francis from Apple hooked us up with a free book when they came for the class yesterday. It is this one:

… Continue

Posted on March 20, 2009 at 9:47am — 2 Comments

Jason Austin

No more Interview 2.0: Now, Campus Spotlight

Because of the immense amount of work it has taken to get an interview done, processed, and posted, we have decided to change it up a bit. We aren't getting rid of the interviews, just broadening the horizon a bit to make the feature more flexible.

Instead of just interviews, we are going to be doing a campus spotlight on interesting happenings that are going on around campus. We will be working with you guys to give us ideas for things we can report on, like applications, events, policy… Continue

Posted on February 19, 2009 at 12:53pm — 1 Comment

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Recap from our first NCSU Web Dev Meetup

Thanks to everyone for coming out! Here is the recap:
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  • Good start to the lack of community issue discussed at the November, 2008 meeting

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Posted on February 19, 2009 at 9:07am — 3 Comments

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Collaborate Together, or Get RIFed Alone

I don't often get inspired by watching TV shows. Most of the time, they are just entertainment for entertainments sake, but I had a revelation while watching LOST relating to the way our University (dis)functions.

If you think I am going to compare some administrator to "the others", or call another one the smoke monster, you'd be wrong. No, what got me was at the end of season 2 where Jack was talking to his people and he told them "if we don't live together, we will die alone". This got me th… Continue

Posted on February 6, 2009 at 10:09am — 12 Comments

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At 1:08pm on October 29, 2009, Tony Miller gave Jason Austin a gift…
Electric Guitar
Apparently Ning now has this gift idea, so I thought I'd send you something for doing Best Week Ever and starting the site. Why not an electric guitar, so you can be a Rock Star web developer?
From the Gift Store
At 10:23am on February 20, 2009, Mark Scheible said…
Jason,

We have been looking at using Shibboleth to front-end the OrgSync application. OrgSync already has NC A&T and Appalachian State as clients and we were attempting to get them sponsored into the UNC identity federation. Unfortunately, that's stalled for the time being because UNC-GA needs to work on establishing an attribute release policy for student information. We may pursue a peer-to-peer shib connection though. I'll let you know when we make progress with this.

Mark
At 12:21pm on December 5, 2008, Ellen McDaniel said…
Hi Jason,

Do we have to have the Google ads at the right, e.g., Pimp my Profile, How Rachel Ray Lost 30lbs? :) Anyway to dump those? Thanks.

Ellen
 
 

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