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We’ve migrated from core Drupal-6 to Pressflow, a back-port of Drupal-7 performance features. Using Pressflow allows us to cache anonymous web-requests (about 77% of our traffic) for 5-minutes and return them right from memory. While this vastly improves the amount of traffic we can handle as well as the speed of anonymous page-loads it […]…Continue Reading Website Performance: Pressflow, Varnish, Oh-My!
Tag: Middlebury
MiddLab
http://go.middlebury.edu/middlab
MiddLab is a new section of Middlebury’s website with no precedent: an academic network, uniting all of the… blah, blah blah.
Truth is, MiddLab has been hard for us to explain ever since we heard the idea. A research network featuring discussions and blogs, and linking together disciplinary themes? How does that […]…Continue Reading MiddLab
Vermont Parks Free June 12th and 13th
VERMONT DAYS is coming up June 12th and 13th. All Vermont State Park day areas, state-owned historic sites, and Vermont’s History Museum will be open and free to the public. Saturday, June 12th is free fishing day – the one day in the year when residents and non-residents may go fishing without a license.
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Welcome Dennis Hadley!
Please join me in welcoming Dennis Hadley to LIS. Dennis started with us on April 12th and has assumed the position of Senior Technology Specialist at the Technology Support Helpdesk. Dennis comes to us from Paul Smith’s College in NY and brings a wealth of experience in higher-ed support and service to our helpdesk group and […]…Continue Reading Welcome Dennis Hadley!
Introducing: The Identity Management Project
The Identity Management Project kicked off in December of 2009. The current project team (small ‘t’) is Tom Cutter, Adam Franco, Mike Lynch, Chris Norris, Carol Peddie, Mark Pyfrom, Jeff Rehbach, Mike Roy, and Marcy Smith.
The Identity Management (IDM) project seeks to organize our concept of a “person” or “identity” among our various systems (including […]…Continue Reading Introducing: The Identity Management Project
“Display Name” Updating Automatically
The “display name” (or alpha name) shown in the web directory, Outlook address book, etc. had in the past been set so that it could only be corrected or changed manually. This process has now been modified so name changes entered into the Banner database are flowing through the Active Directory table and are subsequently […]…Continue Reading “Display Name” Updating Automatically