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  • Team CPUT and Team CPUT PPS in action

    • With the Absa Cape Epic just around the corner, our two teams went to Meerendal to have some fun and work on their technical ...more

  • Pride and excitement at official unveiling of CPUT’s Absa Cape Epic teams

    • With less than two weeks to go until the start of the world’s toughest mountain bike race, the four riders who will sport CPUT colours in the Absa Cape Epic say they are all raring to go. Etienne Joubert, Sarita Louw, Mteza Boya and Seraj Abrahams were all given hearty encouragement at last night’s event, particularly ...more

  • Choosing CPUT’s riders

    • To take part in the Absa Cape Epic, you have to be the best of the best. And so, when CPUT set out to choose team members for Team CPUT and Team CPUT PPS, we were looking for the very best. The teams were chosen from individuals who are part of the CPUT community; staff, students, ...more

  • Giant boosts development team hopes with loan of mountain bike

    • The world’s leading brand of quality bicycles and gear, Giant, is throwing its weight behind CPUT’s development team in this year’s Absa Cape Epic. They’ll be loaning one of their mountain bikes to Mteza Boya, who is riding with Seraj Abrahams for the CPUT PPS team. “We’re proud and excited to be supporting Mteza, in partnership with ...more

  • It takes a village...

    • It’s not just the riders in the Absa Cape Epic who put their blood, sweat and tears into the race. Indeed, the event wouldn’t be a success at all without the many behind-the-scenes players involved. Two critically important people behind Team CPUT and Team CPUT PPS are Marwaan Baker and Niel ‘O Connell. The pair work ...more

  • PPS - proud sponsor of Team CPUT PPS

    • Mthetheleli Boya and Seraj Abrahams are two up and coming mountain bike riders who are set to make their debut at this year’s Absa Cape Epic. The duo, who will ride as Team CPUT PPS, are competing in the Exxarro category. This is a development category reserved for riders who are under the age of ...more

  • Meet Sarita Louw

    • Twenty-eight year old Sarita Louw will be riding in Team CPUT in the mixed category with partner Etienne Joubert. Sarita is a battle-hardened veteran in the mountain biking world, having raced in almost every big race there is, often achieving 1st, 2nd or 3rd place whilst doing so. Sarita completed a B.Ed Intermediate and Senior Phase ...more

  • Meet Etienne Joubert

    • Yet again, CPUT alumnus and lecturer in the School of Sport, Events, Tourism and Hospitality, Etienne Joubert, will be leading CPUT's rider efforts in the toughest mountain bike race in the world, the Absa Cape Epic. Along with his race partner, Sarita Louw, he’s spent months training for the event and as the countdown to the race begins, Etienne ...more

  • Meet Mteza Boya

    • In a CPUT first, the university will be fielding a very special pair of riders in the Absa Cape Epic. Seraj Abrahams, an alumnus, will be racing in the CPUT PPS team with a remarkable young man who hails from Khayelitsha, Mthetheleli Boya. The pair will be entered in the Exxarro category of the Epic, ...more

  • Meet Seraj Abrahams

    • The countdown to one of the world’s most prestigious cycling events, the Absa Cape Epic, has begun. CPUT will again take center-stage in March 2016, when our Wellington campus hosts one of the stages of the race, which runs from 13 -20 March. The Epic sees international mountain-biking stars cycle over 700 km for a demanding ...more

  • Absa Cape Epic cycles its way to CPUT

    • Voted the best Absa Cape Epic host village in 2015 has paid off for CPUT. The university has once again been handpicked to be part of South Africa’s premier mountain bike event, which takes place this March. Last year, riders called CPUT’s Wellington Campus home during the second last stage of the competition and this year the ...more

  • Team 2015

    • CPUT was the proud co-sponsor of staff member Etienne Joubert and his race partner, Leanne Brown-Waterson, who are top mountain bike riders. The team was also sponsored by Display Mania, a Montague Gardens based company. Etienne Joubert Etienne Joubert is a staff member in the School of Sport, Events, Tourism and Hospitality and is based at the CPUT Wellington ...more

  • Absa Cape Epic 2015

    • South Africa’s premier mountain bike event, the Absa Cape Epic, cycled its way through CPUT in 2015. Classified as the “Tour de France” of mountain biking, riders called CPUT’s Wellington Campus home during stage five of the race. The event, which takes place annually in March, attracted more than 1 000 of the world’s elite professional mountain ...more

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  • Hello world!

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  • Push notifications coming to the CPUT Mobile app

    • We are building in the ability to get real-time information pushed to you at no cost to you or the University. Imagine getting emergency notifications from University campus officials as soon as you need it, wouldn't that be great? This ability works like getting an SMS but via the mobile app. It is called "push notifications". Push ...more

  • Did you know: The SA government is open source

    • In 2007,  Cabinet approved a policy and strategy to implement Open Source to lower administration costs and enhance local IT skills. This move was backed by Themba Maseko, head of the Government Communication and Information System (at that time). With high unemployment rates, is it not obvious to go Open? Click here to download the full 2007 ...more

  • Most Universities have no formal policy or procedure for open-source consumption

    • Every year, open-source software “eats” more of the business world, yet companies need their management and governance of open source to catch up to their usage. Back in 2010, roughly 42 percent of the respondents to a North Bridge and Black Duck Software’s annual future of open source survey said they used open source to run ...more

  • Is an Open Source Windows coming?

    • A Microsoft engineer has said that an open source Windows is a possibility. Microsoft’s software empire rests on Windows, the computer operating system that runs so many of the world’s desktop PCs, laptops, phones, and servers. Along with the Office franchise, it generates the majority of the company’s revenues. But one day, the company could “open ...more

  • 2015, what's coming to Connect: the Social Network for staff

    • CPUT uses the Connect Portal for staff collaboration and networking to improve productivity. Much like what Yammer or Facebook does, but for enterprise work that adds value to the lives of staff members. Since its launch in 2014, there have been thousands of staff who have logged into this useful platform. In 2015, we are hoping ...more

  • Why you should include developers as you design your website

    • The internet is abuzz with discussion about why designers should learn to code, or at least be aware of the basics of web development. If designers know a thing or two about web development, they can better understand how their design will look when it’s finalized and coded in a template. Maybe that odd widget ...more

  • Getting Started with CPUT's CAS

    • The CPUT Web Office has implemented an open source project, Central Authentication Service (CAS), to enable single-sign-on (SSO) for web based applications. We have branded this as a "Universal Login" service for CPUT web-users. Information required to setup CAS for you site If you are a web developer or systems administrator interested in setting up CAS for ...more

  • CPUT Mobile: Your university in your pocket 🙂

    • We are very excited to be working on the next giant leap into technology-driven service delivery for CPUT. For years we have patiently investigated the mobile industry and how to harness its awesomeness to deliver information to you – our stakeholders. “It’s a no brainer” Yes – it is obvious that we should be present in your ...more

  • CPUT launches web single sign on, staff portal and a document management system

    • On my birthday, 12 August 2013, the Web Office finally released a set of new systems to make life easier for CPUT staff and students. These systems where set to add value to the community by tackling these issues; Users having to login to several different systems all the time to access online information, Ensuring Identity Management is ...more

  • Graphic advertising on the CPUT website

    • The new CPUT website homepage (www.cput.ac.za) has loads of space for advertising University projects. We added this ad space after realising that we needed to profile the various wonderful activities around all levels of the institution. The advertising space on the homepage Type of ad: Big Banner (1) In the image above, the landscape banner labelled '1' ...more

  • How to remove .DS_Store from Alfresco

    • We opened up our Alfresco instance to using Webdav, FTP, CIFS and other protocols like Sharepoint. These are good features to open as they help users easily interact with Alfresco. Unfortunately, when accessing Webdav using Mac's ifinder as a network drive (Diagram 1), Macs put their .DS_Store files into every folder opened. This is a ...more

  • Installing Apache CAS module through yum and EPEL

    • You can install mod_auth_cas without compiling it from scratch. Follow these steps: Add the EPEL repo to your repo list: install using yum install --enablerepo=epel mod_auth_cas For example: For EL5: su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm' su -c 'yum install --enablerepo=epel mod_auth_cas' For EL6: su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm' su -c 'yum install --enablerepo=epel mod_auth_cas' More info at: ...more

  • Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides now in Afrikaans, Amharic, Swahili, and Zulu

    • Via Google Africa Blog Posted: 19 Jun 2013 12:50 AM PDT Google Drive lets you store and access your files anywhere -- on the web, on your hard drive, on your phone, or on the go. Whether you’re presenting slides in a boardroom in São Paulo or negotiating a Japanese contract in Tokyo, Google Drive speaks your ...more

  • Convert paper forms to electronic forms quckily on the CPUT website

    • Anyone at CPUT can now get an electronic form set up for them free by the University Web Office. Surveys and polls are now easily possible too. With the upgrade of the CPUT website, we have a tool to easily drag and drop survey fields into a webpage, assign rules to it and publish within ...more

  • Securing CPUT systems using high-grade SSL Encryption

    • The Web Office bought a SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate used by banks, Facebook, Google and many highly secure cutting edge companies to protect their online systems. If you want more information on SSL technology, click here. Our provider is Go Daddy. At a small fee, we purchased a wildcard certificate to protect an unlimited number ...more