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IT Risk management is an ever expanding area of interest throughout the software development community. Traditional risk management practices are applied to ensure organizations can withstand unfortunate events like power outages and natural disasters. Additional processes are layered on to deal with events particular to production software systems, such as security vulnerabilities or severe bugs.
Useful things to do with Netcat.
This month, I attended and presented at the first Wagtail Space conference/sprint in the USA. Wagtail Space USA, led by the parent company Torchbox, took place on June 14th–16th at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. This post is summary of the event.
The DevTeam at the CTL continuously research and evaluate existing and new software for possible uses in developing educational technologies at Columbia University. This post describes the evaluation process that led us to choosing Wagtail, an open source CMS written in Python on the Django framework, as one of the tools for us to use at the CTL.
MediaWiki’s API has been around since before REST APIs were commonplace. So it’s a little idiosyncratic, but still useful and flexible.
Though sed has facilities to manage multi-line operations, they can be hard to understand initially. Perl can offer an easier set of tools.
Printing web content has not fallen out of favor, and because it is very much ingrained in the culture of content consumption, we need to include the printed media in our web development process. In this post, I offer some guidance because web printing is not as straightforward as one might assume.
In late February, Emerging Technology Consortium at Columbia hosted an interactive workshop featuring Google AR and VR technologies. Google showcased a few of their products that could potentially be implemented in teaching and learning.
Implementing complex authorization rules for a Django-based application was simplified by the framework's permission & authorization classes at the class-level. Instance-level permissioning proved to be more complicated.
Editing and formatting text on the web comprises of an interesting sub-field of web development. The web allows for different ways to turn text into HTML markup. First I'll outline some of the background of interactive text formatting on the web from my perspective, and then go into some configuration details of MediaWiki's Visual Editor that I found interesting.