EDUCAUSE | Applications Development

Software Assurance: An Overview of Current Industry Best Practices

ckeller — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:24:07 -0500

This report outlines the secure development methods and integrity controls currently used by SAFECode members to deliver high-assurance systems to government and commercial customers.

Community Source Software: The Beginning of the End, or the End of the Beginning?

drupal — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:25:46 -0500

Community source is designed to coordinate the work of different user IT organizations sharing the same purpose and requirements. An alternative to commercial applications and custom development, it gives users control and shares risk across peer organizations. Although several such public sector communities exist and yield great promises, many struggle with achieving critical mass and a viable business model. This panel will compare and contrast community source with more traditional software sourcing options and explore critical sustainability success factors.

Kuali Student: A Next-Generation Administrative System

drupal — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:35:07 -0500

Administrative systems should be affordable, flexible, and customizable. They should help end users plan for and achieve their goals, helping them complete tasks along the way. This presentation will show how the vision, principles, and design developed for Kuali Student can be applied to other next-generation administrative systems and outline some community source development opportunities.

Open Source Software in Education

elilly — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:02:16 -0500

Academia has adopted open source software for some online learning initiatives because it addresses persistent technical challenges

An Open Source LMS for a Mission-Critical, Enterprise-Level Application: Are We There Yet?

drupal — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:00:25 -0500

The open source learning management system has gradually reached maturity. In this session, we will share ideas and lessons learned about making open source LMS enterprise-ready. Currently SFSU has one of the largest Moodle installations in the United States and is the sole university hosting an anonymous Moodle CVS server.

Building a Kuali Student Service System

drupal — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:00:16 -0500

Interested in moving beyond ERPs or your homegrown SIS? Come find out about a new approach, Kuali Student, built by and for the higher ed community. An extended Q&A will provide answers to your toughest technical, functional, and financial questions.

Collaborative Development: The Human Side of Project Management

drupal — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:29:57 -0500

UW–Madison successfully managed a large IT project using a new collaborative development methodology. The goal was to bring the product to life quickly with fewer bugs and greater input from both functional and technical people. This methodology impacted our organization in unexpected ways. We'll share successes and lessons learned.

The OSASC Web Advising System: Building an Airplane While Flying

drupal — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:29:58 -0500

This session will outline how we used agile software development to build OSASC, a flexible web advising support system that helps 50 OSU academic advisors serve over 16,000 students each quarter. We faced a short implementation timeline (three months), lacked funding and a programmer, and needed to serve busy advisors. Agile methods enabled us to maximize resources when time and costs were fixed.

Web Applications: Development Approaches

drupal — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:11:08 -0600

IAM and security must be on the same page regarding web application development to facilitate proper access. What coding practices and assessment practices should web developers use? What tools are out there to help (OWASP)? Do we need cross-site scripting and pup code review to ensure proper leveraging of enterprise IAM or should web applications manage their own IAM/account data? This session will discuss strategies for how to include security and access requirements in the development process and code.

CNI Podcast: An Interview with Julian Lombardi, Executive Director of the Open Croquet Consortium

gbayne — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:36:51 -0600

In this 15 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Julian Lombardi, Assistant Vice President at Duke University and Executive Director of the Open Croquet Consortium. Croquet is a powerful new open source software development environment and software infrastructure for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online applications and metaverses on and across multiple operating systems and devices.

Dr. Julian Lombardi is the Assistant Vice President of Academic Services and Technology Support with Duke University’s Office of Information Technology, Senior Research Scholar with Duke University's program in Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS), and an adjunct professor with Duke University's Department of Computer Science. He is also one of the six principle architects of the Croquet Project, executive director of the Open Croquet Consortium, and a co-chair of MacLearningEnvironments.org. A former biology professor, Lombardi combined his interests in information technology, complex systems, and the phenomenon of emergence in biological systems and began designing and developing computer-supported collaboration systems involving self-optimizing massively multiuser online 3D environments in the mid-1990s. He eventually founded VIOS, Inc. in 1999 where he acted as the venture capital-backed company's first CEO and then Chief Creative Officer/Software architect. From 2002-2005, he managed a learning technology research and development group in University of Wisconsin-Madison's Division of Information Technology.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2007 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org