Friday, November 15, 2002

Deloitte perspective on content management. This is the 100th blog entry. Well over 100 of you are reading the blog on a regular basis, which is gratifying, and makes the effort of creating the entry well worth while. My subject for today is enterprise content management. One of the problems of running a small consulting... [Intranet Focus Blog] 7:08:35 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Fixing ASP.NET's "Access Denied" Error. I was doing some work in ASP.Net Web Matrix which includes a Cassini-based web server for testing. However, my stylesheets were processed incorrectly on Cassini-served pages. I decided to try serving the same page from IIS (by web sharing the folder) when I encountered the dreaded "Access Denied" error. I had seen this before, but never solved the problem. Today I found some help. ASP.NET runs under a local machine account named ASPNET. The account is granted access to folders under /inetpub when you install .NET, but that doesn't help any folders for which a web share is set up. You need to alter the security settings for the shared folder AND for every parent of it, allowing the local machine ASPNET account to have access. Problem solved (finally)! [On The Mark] 7:04:08 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

e Week has a big story on where the jobs are in the USA for computer people. There are a lot of us who are somewhat depressed about the economy, large layoffs all over the place, dot com melt down etc.  We can forget that while the economy may be bad overall, there are always places with growth and stability.  They move around the country as geography and technology evolves.  Some industries have not suffered in the current economy, such as biotechnology, health care, defense spending, which has led to growth in computer jobs some places.  e-Week analysed data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics and other sources, and concluded that the best areas of the country to relocate to, if you want to be where the computer jobs are: New York's Capital Region Thanks to IBM, Eastman Kodak, Bausch & Lomb, Corning, and other companies, this area was a tech center long before the dot com boom.  In 1999, NY ranked 4th in the nation for attracting venture capital, and 3rd for R&D spending.  This seven county region, consisting of Albany, Troy and other cities, continues to have a strong economy for growth in computer jobs.  One of the newest companies here is looking for experts in bioinformatics, such as analysis of DNA sequences for nanotechnology.  Check out www.hightechNY.com for current job openings. Northern Virginia Beltway Defense Contractors are booming with approx 5,000 IT jobs going unfilled.  Background checks for a good security clearance can take 18 months.  Biomedical also has great prospects. Southern California's Inland Empire East of Los Angeles created 29,700 new IT jobs in July and 26,000 in August, the highest rate in the nation, because it has become a major center for distribution, thanks to inexpensive land, a diverse industrial base, including industries that are today's drivers of tomorrow's economic growth. There's an article of tips for relocating, and one on the methodology they used to determine the three top areas. [Al Macintyre's Radio Weblog] 7:01:15 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

A New Approach to Permalinks. A New Approach to Permalinks The Boston Diaries has an interesting approach to PermaLinks.  It's based on Ted Nelson's Tumbler concept and makes what looks like a standard directory reference into a range queryable concept.  Very cool.  [ Go ] [The FuzzyBlog!] 1:19:18 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

ePortfolios, blogging, and higher education.. Noted for future reference...as much for the sheer volume of links as anything else. ePortfolios. The link above has more links than you can shake a stick at.  In addition: Personal Learning Planner [link corrected] PLP and self-directed learning (pdf) Could we, as an institution, support thousands and thousands of such things (weblogs?)? [Serious Instructional Technology] I would think that an educational institution could support this.  The graduate class I took that was entirely online (Austrian Economics, if you're curious) could have easily been extended to use something like this; while we spent most of our time in FolioViews annotating the text, lectures, and annotations of other students, we easily could have extended our writing into weblogs.  The conversations we'd have had if we were subscribing to each other's feeds might have been amazing, and considerably more real-time than our trading snippets of text back and forth through the professor (which, to be fair, was quite amazing at the time; I still find myself wanting to get all of my books into a Folio format so that I can do the type of annotating and cross-referencing enabled by the technology). [klyjen.blog] 12:25:58 PM    trackback []     Articulate []

Rock-climbing goes high tech.. This is just...cool.  And it is further evidence that I need to start climbing again.  [Note for clarification of my use of "again" in the previous sentence:  I was never really a climber; I did it for one season, in outdoor classes in the DC area.  But I have the shoes!  It's all about having the proper shoes.  *g*]  I've never spent a lot of time on indoor walls; perhaps now is the time. Climbers Rock on Wall of Lights. A rock wall with lighted, multicolored toe- and fingerholds brings the varied challenges of natural cliffs to city-bound climbers. It makes for a cool nightclub atmosphere, too. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News] [klyjen.blog] 12:21:41 PM    trackback []     Articulate []