By Loren Frerichs Wed, 08/20/2014 - 17:19
BEST PRACTICE: Maintain a local Preferred Technologies list.
Use of common technologies creates synergy for development groups and reduces support complexity and cost. A technology choice can be subjective and maintaining a list of preferred technologies gives developers and purchasing agents guidance.
UNL Preferred Technologies
The following are the ITS preferred choices for the UNL environment:
- Preferred operating systems
- For an up to date list of server and desktop operating systems, ITS maintains a 'supported standards' page.
- For a list of Microsoft products' lifecycle, see http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us
- Preferred browsers
- As we move forward and browsers become more compliant to the standards promulgated by the W3C, we should move toward support for "all modern, standards-compliant browsers." In the interim, ITS maintains a 'supported browsers' page.
- Preferred code platforms
- J2EE (Enterprise systems)
- PHP (Enterprise systems, web interfaces)
- .NET (business service applications)
- Preferred database platforms
- MySQL (version?)
- MS SQL Server
- Preferred web platforms
- Apache
- IIS
- Preferred combined platforms
- LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
- WAMP - Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP
- WINS - Windows, IIS, .Net, SQL Server
- Preferred development tools
- Eclipse
Rational Application Developer- Visual Studio
- Preferred Extensions/Frameworks
- PEAR (PHP Extension and Application Repository)
- jQuery
- Zend
- Preferred Versioning Environment
- git.unl.edu (Private or Internal projects)
- github.com (Community Source/Open Source projects)
- Preferred Authentication Methods
- Single Sign On
- CAS (UNL login)
- Shibboleth
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- HTML5
- Preferred integration tools
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