Due to a convergence of mostly-unfortunate factors, I have been embroiled in trying to sort out our university’s submission to the national student financial aid system (NSFAS)…this being driven by Continue reading → Hacking Financial Aid…

I’ve been trying to move all my work to the cloud — including my IDE.   I often have different VMs set up for different projects / stacks (this sounds more sophisticated than it really is, trust me…)

I’ve tried a bunch of things — and lately,  I’ve been doing most of my (admittedly modest) coding in the AWS Cloud9…and it’s a happy place so far.

Continue reading → Cloud9…rocks…

It seems one of my favourite things these days…is finding new REST APIs for our operational data…and trying to implement magic stuff with it….and thinking up new ideas to integrate with my (all-too-sparse) bits of operational data.

Cisco Prime has a REST API — and you can download the programming guides here:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/prime-infrastructure/products-programming-reference-guides-list.html

Continue reading → Cisco Prime has a REST API…