A little over a month ago the OIT Web Communications team (a.k.a. Alisha Myers and myself) drove down to Athens, OH to attend the 2009 Spring <br /> (pron. “break”) conference held at Ohio University. This conference is targeted at anyone who works in web design and development. This is the second year we’ve attended. [...]
You may (or may not) have noticed that this blog has been pretty quiet the last few weeks. Well, we have a legitimate excuse, we swear!
The OIT Web Communications team (e.g. Alisha and I) have been working on coverting the entire OIT website from its current static html form to one powered by a content [...]
The DA posted an article last week about the OIT Technology Support Center. Check it out:
Though busy, WVU Tech Support Center gets the job done
Thursday February 19, 2009
Marli Riggs, Staff Writer
Numerous laptops line a long table in Room G49 in Brooke Tower on the Evansdale Campus of West Virginia University. Student workers briskly move from [...]
I’d like to take a moment to respond to the article in today’s Daily Athenaeum. There are some items that need clarification and I want to make sure everyone understands why the installer for Google Chrome wouldn’t work on University-run Internet connections. I’ll include text from the DA article when I reference it specifically.
Some of [...]
A colleague here at OIT (thanks, Justin!) just sent this tidbit to me. Adobe is releasing ColdFusion 8 (a.k.a. CF) free for students and educators. This is a really interesting development because previously you needed to own a license to use and learn about ColdFusion. Since open source programming languages (like php and Ruby on [...]
Dave Olsen over at WVU Web Services pointed me to TextMarks a service that lets you create text messaging services for…well…anything. I checked it out and realized this could be a handy little feature for those of you who are “text-message inclined.” So, I set up a TextMark for OIT.
To use this, create a text [...]
A hearty handshake and a pat on the back to all of you who are back in town to start a new semester. Those of you who are new to WVU, “Welcome!”
This semester marks the launch of this blog. We’re hoping that this is a helpful resource for you during your time at WVU. I [...]
We recently set up a WVU OIT page on Facebook. Now every one of you can “Become a Fan” of OIT! At first we were just testing out the concept of pages on Facebook, but we soon realized this was a really handy tool.
It imports news from our OIT news feed directly. So while it [...]
Much of the work-related software that you use at WVU is restricted to the campus-wide LAN, known as the Intranet. There are times, however, when it can be really handy – or even essential — to get to the Intranet from somewhere off-campus. Unbeknownst to may people, there is a way to do this. It’s a web-based [...]
