Web Services

Note 7/17/2025: The RamCam upgrade has been postponed to next week, hopefully. After years of dedicated service, our two remaining RamCams are finally getting a prodigious upgrade. We’re talking 4K resolution, 60 frames per second, a 1/2.5″ CMOS sensor, Lightfinder, Wide Dynamic Ranges and all sorts of things we don’t fully understand! These new cameras […]

First off, a huge thank you to our awesome and patient community. Thanks to all of you, we’ve taken care of the last few issues and are now confident we can finally shut down the wiki.vcu.edu server. While the server itself will go offline, we’re implementing some clever redirects for the wiki.vcu.edu domain. Our goal […]

We’re almost an entire week in the cloud! Thanks to everybody who assisted us in all the testing and advice. The next step is two-fold– we’ll convert the wiki.vcu.edu space to a read-only environment to encourage everybody to pay more attention to their new Cloud Space… and then we’ll sunset the service entirely by issuing […]

In October 2023, we revealed the plan to move our wiki.vcu.edu “Confluence” app into Atlassian’s cloud offerings. It has taken us a bit of time to arrange all of the ducks, but we’re approaching the time to actually move. As of this post, we will not be creating any more spaces on wiki.vcu.edu, and existing […]

Tap, tap– tap, tap. Does this thing still work? Atlassian Confluence 7.4.17, affectionately known as wiki.vcu.edu is up for a change. We recognize that the Wiki is already a critical application all around VCU’s departments. Over the last few years, we’ve seen little functionalities drop as we switch Directory Services, or as a handful of […]