Web Team
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The Eliot House Website is the creation and responsibility of the tutors and students listed above. In addition, the web team would like to thank the follow individuals for their help:
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Mark Manley, Harvard IT Services
Mark is the one responsible for setting up and maintaining the machine hosting this website. This is a large improvement from the days when the Eliot Website was powered by an underpowered machine sitting under a graduate student's desk in the CS department. Mark has been incredibly helpful answering emails, performing configuration changes and in general keeping us up and running. -
Masha Shoykhet, Assistant Project Manager, Directory Services, Harvard University
Assistant Project Manager, Directory Services, Harvard University: Masha is the reason that we're able to use the Harvard PIN system for authentication, which is really cool. -
John Fisher, Harvard Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences IT Staff
John generously contributed the (extremely hairy) code used to validate the tickets returned from the Harvard PIN system. We are very, very pleased not to have to reproduce this code ourselves.
Lastly, we'd like to point out the major systems underpinning this website, as well as projects from which we've borrowed code or ideas:
- Linux : our webserver is a Linux machine running an Enterprise-Level Redhat Linux distribution.
- Apache : Apache is serving pages on our webserver.
- MySQL : MySQL is the database storing our web content.
- PHP : we use PHP to produce dynamic, database-driven web content.
(Collectively the above constitute a "LAMP" server, the standard for Linux-based dynamic web serving)
- Mediawiki : we grabbed and modified the authentication system for Mediawiki to drive the dynamic content on non-administrator updated portions of the website.
- Zipcar : the online car reservation service Zipcar provided the inspiration for the format of our online room-reservation calendar interface. It was, however, implemented from scratch.