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I’ve managed IT Systems for over five years. Sometimes I have creative ideas, thoughts, or shameless rants that I like to post here.

Backups and Disaster Recovery Kit

Be Prepared!It’s the perfect time to think about it.  With disaster on everybody’s mind, and this being the season of resolutions, it’s time to think about your disaster recovery strategy.

Recently, a major department right here at FSU suffered catastrophic loss to their servers, with scant means of quick recovery.  Their site was down literally for weeks as staff from all over the University scrambled to assist them in recreating the critical pieces.  They lost of a lot of time and money.

I’m absolutely sure they’ll be super-prepared next time, but you don’t have to wait until something tragic happens to be prepared!

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Teaching PHP: Course Curriculum

php-sauceThe problem, succinctly stated, is: How do you best organize 14 weeks of study to teach PHP to a group of motivated College students?

I know they must be pretty motivated, because they’re signing up for the class despite the fact that it starts at 8 am.

This Fall, I will  be teaching a course in Web Application Development at FSU.  The topic will be server-side scripting, and the focus will be PHP.  Since I’ve taught this course before, developing the curriculum won’t take months, but I am nevertheless spending a fair amount of time updating and tweaking for the next go-around.

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