How to become a better developer: highlights from the Polyglot Unconference
Last week I attended the 2013 Vancouver Polyglot Unconference. Having never been to an ‘unconference’ before, I was a little uncertain what to expect. [...]
MonthMay 2013
Banks of student workstations may soon be replaced by online computer labs
Over the past year, Cybera and the University of Alberta have piloted a Virtual Computing Lab to provide virtual workstations to students. Opportunities to expand the service to other educational institutions are now being explored. [...]
Inaugural Edmonton Python Meetup
On Monday, May 13th, 2013 Edmonton had its first Python meetup, taking place at the wonderful Startup Edmonton facilities. [...]
Cybera members have improved tool for tracking network use
Cybera has revamped its CyberaNet Portal, which allows members using the Peering, Research and Internet Buying Group services to access their account information and chart their bandwidth use. [...]
NorQuest College is fourth institution to join Alberta’s education cloud
NorQuest College has joined the University of Alberta, NAIT and Athabasca University in a pilot project to share their learning management systems, Moodle, as a cloud-based system. [...]
Kernel settings, schedulers, and solid state drives
I’ve been testing various commercial solid state drives for a project that involves stateless, mostly Windows-based, virtual machines (vms). [...]