Many people from Middlebury presented at this year’s Nercomp annual conference. I did a session entitled “From Taxonomies to Folksonomies: The Evolution of Organization.” Other Middlebury sessions included:
- Bryan Carson and Carrie Macfarlane: Chasing a Moving Target: Using the CMS in an Evolving Web Environment
- Mike Halsall and Graeme Connell: Your Network Security Babelfish
Adam Franco did a poster session entitled “Using Frameworks to Ease Curricular Systems Development, Interoperability, and Maintenance.” A common thread in all of these presentations was evolution. I discussed the evolution of organization, particularly in the presentation and tracking of news. Adam’s poster session addressed how frameworks can simplify the evolution of applications. Mike and Graeme discussed the evolution of Privateye, a web application they have been developing for parsing logs. I was not able to attend the session by Bryan and Carrie, but since its title includes “evolving web environment…”