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News (Friday 19 March 2010)
Research Profiles (2010-02-19)
The new Research Support System is in a pilot phase, and the published profiles are under development. Cocoon and XSLT have been used to manipulate the data published by the system so that it conforms to the UCC look and feel, and adds the features we need.
LATEX (2010-01-10)
A new mini-FAQ is now available, with (for once) prescriptive solutions rather than the traditional approach of explaining every last detail and leaving the user with a collection of confusing choices.
Old server inaccessible (2009-11-16)
Due to an untraced networking problem, the old server (epu.ucc.ie) is offline. Most of the documents still served from there are available here (see the menu to the left). We hope to have the problem sorted out today.
Lucene search engine (2009-11-06)
Installing the Lucene search engine only to discover it only comes with a HTML search tool: nothing for XML.
Pieces of history (2009-10-14)
The even older machine, a Sun SparcStation IPX called curia.ucc.ie, failed to reboot last year (2008), and with an inoperable screen it was not possible to see what was wrong. It has been lying idle ever since, waiting for the time when someone can come up with a working Sun monitor that we can plug in and see what is failing. It's probably something simple, but without any screen, we're blind. Moral: never, ever buy proprietary hardware for which there is no easily-available substitute.
Getting closer (2009-09-22)
Finally there is some light at the end of the tunnel. The old server is still running, but all documents and services have now been copied to the new system, and should be reconfigured and running before the end of the [calendar] year. Once those services are stable, the old machine will be switched off and scrapped.