There is a surprising number of cases where you’d want to change the URL of a Chamilo portal, but the more common we see is when you take a backup copy of a portal and want to use that copy to build a new test portal. Obviously, if you keep the same URL, you’re going […]
Ergonomics and usability with Chamilo LMS. Sometimes Open Source software gets criticized for lacking behind proprietary software when talking about compelling interfaces. Many people in our community, after spending years with other solutions, describe our software, Chamilo LMS, as the easiest to use and to manage. We would like to take this opportunity to explain […]
Understanding the differences between Chamilo (LMS), BeezNest and the Chamilo Association Truth be told, we didn’t do a lot of efforts to make this clear in the past, but as Chamilo LMS growth more popular and the business needs around Chamilo increase considerably, I feel like things should be set straight to avoid confusion and […]
This guide will take you through the process of installing Chamilo 1.10 (from Github sources) for testing on a fresh Digital Ocean instance, on an Ubuntu 16.04 distribution. A previous article on this blog explains how to install Chamilo 1.9 using Juju Charms and another article explains how to install 1.10.2 on Ubuntu 15.10. The […]
If you design your icons in SVG with Inkscape and wonder how to quickly make an “inactive” icon in grayscale, here’s a quick fix (at least for Linux users): inkscape -f teacher_na.svg –verb EditSelectAll –verb org.inkscape.color.desaturate.noprefs –verb FileSave –verb FileQuit This will edit your file in-place (so you need to take a copy first) and […]
For those of you looking for a guide to install Chamilo 1.10 on CentOS, have a look here for a great community contribution by Arun Pyasi: http://linoxide.com/tools/setup-chamilo-e-learning-system-ubuntu-15-04-centos-7
If you’re ever stuck with broken tables in MySQL or MariaDB and you don’t know which, you can use the mysqlcheck command to repair them all, one by one (you can also use the –optimize argument). mysqlcheck -u root -p –auto-repair –all-databases
If you’ve been using or maintaining support for NuSOAP lately, you’ve certainly realized that it does not work properly anymore. This is because NuSOAP isn’t maintained anymore, so a lot of things are bound to stop working as PHP versions drop support (or tolerance) for specific code. Well apparently, there are fixes around. Notably, for […]
When you play a lot with branches and kind of keep track of what should or shouldn’t be merged between them, there’s kind of a magical set of commands to force-overwrite your code with a specific branch: git fetch –all git reset –hard origin/master Make sure you have commited all your changes to some branch […]
