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// June 21st, 2005 // Technology Bits

Those who know me already know I work for Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH. My unofficial title is Web Developer and I spend a lot of time developing web applications for internal audiences. In addition to my development duties, I also specialize in integrating separate software systems. Enter the portal. Most of my work revolves around one product, Luminis made by SunGard SCT. This portal solution is based off the open-source product UPortal. Our implementation is dubbed myPlymouth.
On to my point… Doing development for myPlymouth on the Luminis platform became far more interesting in December of last year when Jon Wheat of Messiah College created the Luminis Developers Network (aka LDN, aka LumDev). Suddenly I had a whole community of developers doing similar jobs as me, wanting to enhance to product in similar way, and with an easy way to collaborate on these efforts.

My excitement about LDN has caused me to shamelessly promote the site on many occasions. In Hawaii at Summit, in Boston during a presentation, as well as in every communication I’ve had with anyone even remotely interested in Luminis.

Anyway, I post on LDN often and in the future will likely syndicate my posts here. The following bulleted list summarizes the posts I originated there.

- Syndicating LDN in Luminis III.2 (12/20/04) – my first post, I found it ironic that the LDN RSS did not properly syndicate inside Luminis. Jon got it fixed though.
- Statistics (1/21/05) – as I began researching a way to get stats, I requested ideas on how to accomplish this.
- Classifieds Channel – How To (1/27/05) – step by step instructions on how to get the UPortal communities “Classifieds Channel” implemented in Luminis.
- My Calendar Channel (2/20/05) – a request for info on how to hack the delivered calendar channel
- Summit ’05 Lum Dev Meetup (3/2/05) – a request to meetup with anyone from LDN who was interested while I was in Hawaii. (I ended up meeting a few and recruiting more. For related escapades, register at LDN and read these comments)
- Luminis Statistics from Uportal (4/12/05) – an overview of how to extract statistics from the underlying UPortal infrastructure.
- YaleCAS (4/18/05) – implementation details and excitement about YaleCAS, a great tool for SSO integration with homegrown apps, especially PHP based apps using phpCAS.
- Site Demos/Guest Logins (5/2/05) – a request for demo logins from the community
- CampusEAI Consortium (6/7/05) – a question to the community about CampusEAI. I’m still curious about this.
- Northeast SCT Luminis Recruitment/Business Case (6/10/05) – summarizes the presentation I attended and presented in recently in Boston.

Obviously I’ve also commented on a ton of other people’s posts, but that is less necessary for me to summarize. Though I will occasionally post summaries of other posts I find particularly intriguing.

luminis, portal, sct, sso, sungardsct, uportal, yalecas, cas, integration, higher education

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