CAS to replace AWS
Many applications on campus which require CalNet authentication use the Authentication Web Server (AWS) service; examples include AirBears, blu, and a number of applications deployed by departments,...
View ArticleUpdate on PHP 4 end of life
I posted last July that PHP 4 is nearing the end of its life, and that therefore we must begin migrating our sites to PHP 5. PHP 5 is largely compatible with PHP 4, but I expect that most sites based...
View ArticleAll servers are mortal. Socrates is a server. Therefore…
Socrates, and its predecessors violet and garnet, have been providing a general Unix environment to campus researchers for something like 20 years now. The current server is now quite old, and the...
View ArticlePHP 4 is really going away now
As announced in two previous postings in July 2007 and February 2008, PHP 4 has reached the end of its development life; security issues require us to migrate to PHP 5, the currently supported version....
View ArticleRevised plans for socrates
As I noted in a blog post back in March, IST is ending support for socrates. Since that posting, I have been participating on the Socrates/Arachne Abatement Steering Committee, trying to find a way to...
View ArticleMarie Robertson departure
I’m sad to announce that E. Marie Robertson, project manager for our web and applications development group since 2005, is leaving the university (and indeed, the state of California). Marie has...
View ArticleWeb hosting outsource
As mentioned in my post last week, we have initiated a project to outsource our web and MySQL hosting to a third-party hosting company, Dreamhost, in an effort to slash costs. Dreamhost is the same...
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