all things cbl

I’ll be teaching a couple of classes, three actually, this Spring 2007 at Dixie State.

“But Why?”, might you ask. To help pay down the Saab is one of the reasons. The other reason is.. well.. that’s pretty much the only reason there is. Just to get some easy extra $ by showing off how much I know about three subjects.

I’ll be teaching:

IT4400 – Advanced Networking (or is it Networking Design and Management now? they keep changing the title every year).

IT4200 – Advanced Web Delivery

IT3110 – SysAdmin part 2

The IT4400 will be my fourth time teaching. Third time using the same text, so I’m not too worried about it. I have 7 students enrolled in it.
IT3110 is one I’m a little concerned with. We’ll cover most of the stuff I know. Except LDAP. I can “do” LDAP, but I’m not pretty proficient with it. I can install and do the assignment stuff that the previous instructor has required the class to do, but if someone has a problem, I might be calling $_PAST_INSTRUCTOR and asking for some help. Another thing I’ll need to learn is compiling kernels on Debian. Never had to do it, yet. But for the most part it’ll be pretty easy. Samba, PDC, NFS, LDAP.. nothing too major.

IT4200. The Advanced Web Delivery is one I’m having a bit of a concern with. $_PAST_INSTRUCTOR taught some AJAX for the last 1/3 of the class. I’m kinda not wanting to do that. But instead might want to introduce the class to Ruby on rails. It’s a pretty basic class. Install apache/mysql/php/linux. Install some SSL stuff, learn mod_rewrite, maybe some caching, proxying with apache2.. mod_deflate would be fun. I’d like to show them or have them learn how to scale your project. Multiple servers serving up stuff, MySQL cluster perhaps? Authentication, Benchmarking,.. hmm. .anybody else have any ideas?

I subbed for a day last month and reviewed with the IT1100 (intro to everything OS related) class. I rather enjoyed it because it was so simple. I also enjoyed it because I just didn’t care. I poked fun at the way the instructor had us do the quiz (cups red, yellow and blue). They seemed to enjoy it. Hopefully, I’ll get a few good students this year. Some that actually show up, care, and want to learn. Some that participate and ask GOOD questions.. not those questions that everybody asks when they missed a day and weren’t able to go over the reading.. you know the type.

So yeah… spring 2007 semester @ DSC is coming right around the corner. Hopefully it’ll be a beneficial semester and get me out of some Saab debt.