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Acquia Drupal Stack Installer

onaje — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:56:09 -0400

Learn By The Drop presents a video showing how to install Drupal locally by using the Acquia Drupal stack installer. Acquia's installer is an all-in-one package that installs Acquia Drupal, MySQL, PHP and PhpMyAdmin. Acquia Drupal is a Drupal distribution that comes packaged with many useful contributed modules including CCK, Views and PathAuto.

Running a webserver on USB/flash drive

onaje — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:25:51 -0400

Following up on my earlier post on running a web server on a usb stick, here is a list of other free web server software that can be run from a flash/usb drive. These servers typically run Apache, MySQL, PHP, and PHPMyAdmin.

USB Webserver - Portable Web Server. The page for this application is in Dutch. I ran the page through Google's translate service and this is the English it produced (I've included the original Dutch):

Usb Webserver in brief

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World Universities Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 9-11 January 2010 - Call for Papers

onaje — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:05:27 -0500

THIRD WORLD UNIVERSITIES FORUM
Davos, Switzerland
9-11 January 2010
http://universitiesforum.com

The World Universities Forum was created in the belief that academe must better engage today's most crucial questions, and that higher education itself must be included as part of the wider discussion of global change. The Forum encourages the participation of university executives, administrators, scholars and research students, as well as journalists, policy makers, business and political leaders, and others who understand that the importance of the university extends well beyond campus.

Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices

onaje — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:38:14 -0500

Third International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
Berlin, Germany
15-17 February 2009
http://www.Design-Conference.com

Workshop Proceedings & Presentations -- Second Workshop on "Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge"

onaje — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:29:29 -0400

Availability of Workshop Proceedings & Presentations -- Second Workshop on "Creation and Dissemination of Knowledge", organized by IMI, New Delhi

CodeIgniter PHP Framework

onaje — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:25:55 -0400

I previously set out to learn ROR but gave up when I got busy working on other projects. During the late summer I started looking into PHP frameworks and thought that Symphony might be a good idea but never pursued it any further. Yesterday, I discovered CodeIgniter when I found an article comparing different PHP frameworks.

Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) 2009

onaje — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:33:00 -0400

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

LIBRARIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE (LIDA) 2009

Dubrovnik and Zadar, Croatia, 25 - 30 May 2009

Inter-University Centre (http://www.iuc.hr/ ) and University of Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (http://www.unizd.hr/)

Full information at: http://www.ffos.hr/lida/

Federal Cyber Service: Scholarships for Service (SFS)

onaje — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:50:35 -0400

Sponsor: Directorate for Education and Human Resources/NSF

Program Number: 58802

Title: Federal Cyber Service: Scholarships for Service (SFS)

SYNOPSIS:
The Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS) program seeks to increase the number of qualified students entering the fields of information assurance and computer security and to increase the capacity of the United States higher education enterprise to continue to produce professionals in these fields to meet the needs of our increasingly technological society.

Deadline(s): 12/02/2008

Digital Media and Learning Competition looking for Young Innovators

onaje — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:55:54 -0400

[HASTAC Announcement] Digital Media and Learning Competition looking for Young Innovators

An announcement from HASTAC.org

We want to hear your ideas about how you can make new technologies enable and enhance learning. This year the $2 million Digital Media and Learning Competition has special awards for those aged 18-25, to help you take your innovative ideas from the garage to implementation. Young Innovator awards range from $5,000-$30,000.

Focus: Participatory Learning.
Deadline: October 15, 2008.
Find out more at http://www.dmlcompetition.net

Persistence of Memory: Sustaining Digital Collections

onaje — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:33:51 -0400

Persistence of Memory: Sustaining Digital Collections - 2008 Conference Registration Open!

PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY:
Sustaining Digital Collections
DECEMBER 9-10, 2008
InterContinental Chicago Hotel
Chicago, Illinois

PRESENTED BY the Northeast Document Conservation Center CO-SPONSORED BY Society of American Archivists, American Library Association, and Center for Research Libraries