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UMW Blogs: Over 1 Billion Characters Served

Published by Reverend July 3rd, 2008 in UMW Blogs, dtlt, fa08, faculty academy and umwfa08. 3 Comments

Well, UMW Blogs is now on a dedicated server after a year of shared hosting to run over a thousand blogs. We are quickly approaching the 1500 blogs mark, and the database is 1.1 gigs with over 11,000 tables. Seems that once it starts approaching 5 or 6 gigs it might be time to [...]

Faculty Academy Videos, or the beauty of our New Media Specialist

Published by Reverend May 18th, 2008 in fa08, faculty academy and umwfa08. 4 Comments

Faculty Academy posts will be streaming in irregularly as I grok this year’s amazing event. So much to say, but for the time being I’ll be relatively brief. This year’s conference was about many things, pushing the boundaries, going boldly, and refusing fear as an alternative. One thing from this year’s Faculty [...]