Tech Support, Resources, and Consultation | Innovation Co-Lab

Development Resources

VCM - Virtual Machine infrastructure for hosting your website or accessing containerized software.
Gitlab - Duke's own Git repository system for code version control and sharing.
Co-Lab APIs - The Co-Lab's API system for accessing various data sources like identity, 3dprinter data, and ad hoc events.
Streamer - OIT's API system for accessing data sources including Duke directory, curriculum, and ePrint.
Duke iOS App Store - Internal App Store for Duke-created apps to distribute within Duke Community.

Also, check out our documentation for help with these resources and a variety of other topics.

Office Hours & Consultation

The Co-Lab also holds weekly office hours, listed below, where our student consulants can help you with your project or answer technology questions in their expertise, listed below. If you have questions about the Co-Lab Studio, you can just visit one of our locations and talk to the students on shift there.

Online Tech Support via Slack

Need some help on a project and you can't come to our Office Hours? Find us on Slack for some quick help on your questions! Just head to dukecolab.slack.com, create an account and post your questions there and we’ll be able to help you along the way. Slack can also be used for project management within your team if you’re scattered across the globe or just across campus. Just create a private channel and invite your team.

Office Hours

Can't come to any of these times? Find us on Slack for support or to set up a time to meet.

Free for all members of the Duke community. We are happy to tackle any of your questions with you together! The following office hours are open, free of charge, to all Duke student, faculty, and staff.

Name	Slack Name	Times	Location	Expertise
Shamikh Hossain, Technical Consultant	@Shamikh Hossain	Thursday 6-8 pm Friday 3-5 pm Cancelled 01/18, make up hours at a different date- sorry for the inconvenience	Co-Lab Commons at the TEC	HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Django, Flask, Ruby on Rails, Bootstrap, Full-stack web development, GitHub, WordPress, Jupyter Notebooks, Python for Data Science
Will Ye, Technical Consultant	@Will Ye	Tuesday 3-5 pm Friday 1-3 pm	Co-Lab Commons at the TEC	Full stack web development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Node.js, Flask), API design and development, web scraping, Processing/p5.js
Teddy Marchildon, Technical Consultant	@Teddy Marchildon	Monday 3-5 pm Wednesday 3-5 pm	Co-Lab Commons at the TEC	iOS development, Full Stack Engineering, Java and JavaScript, Multi-Threaded Environments, Ruby on Rails
Mike Liu, Technical Consultant	@Mike Liu	Tuesday 11-1 Thursday 11-1	Co-Lab Commons at the TEC	Git, Web development, Node.js, macOS, Linux, VPS, development environment settings, Vim, Email deployment and maintenance
Michael Faber, Co-Lab Program Manager	@michaelfaber	By appointment only, email maf13@duke.edu.	Co-Lab Commons at the TEC	Project management and scoping, prototyping, design thinking, user experience
Blaire Zhang, Technical Consultant	@Blaire Zhang	Monday 2-4 pm Friday 11-1 pm	Co-Lab Commons at the TEC	iOS development (XCode/Swift), Full-stack web development (HTML/CSS/Javascript), React Native, Databases, APIs, HCI
Aman Ibrahim, Technical Consultant	@amanmibra	Monday 12-3 pm Wednesday 12-3 pm	Co-Lab Commons at the TEC	Full Stack Engineering (Rails, Sinatra, Node/Express, Phoenix, React, Redux, All SQL DBMS, NoSQL, Heroku/GCP/AWS, Docker, API Design, etc.), Web Development Skills (Git, Shell Scripting, Project CI, Task Management, etc.)