Development

Introduction

To prepare for RC1, I have to submit the latest database changes for this release. The objective of these changes is specifically to add the management of repeated events to a simple agenda system that doesn't have them. So, what's the big deal?

Next week, we will be releasing an RC1 for Dokeos 1.8.5. The main targets for this version are:

• fixing SCORM (import, export and reporting)
• fixing audio recorder and some videoconference minor bugs
• improving the templating system
• adding repetitive events to the agenda (and iCal import, as well)

I'm quite annoyed because I will have to update the database structure to allow for repetitive events, but we're still before RC1 so it is still an "acceptable" change, and apparently it's been said it would be in 1.8.5, so...

2008-08-02 update

Although the post is in Spanish, one of my colleagues (and consequently I also did) installed Eclipse Ganymede manually on his Ubuntu 8.04 and it works beautifully (although it uses even more memory). Check out the article.

Original post: I know, I should report all this properly in the Eclipse bug-tracking utility, but the truth is I don't know how to explain it.

Wouldn't you know...

[digg=http://digg.com/programming/Dokeos_1_8_5_Beta_2_Released] Alright, so I did release a little brother for Dokeos 1.8.5 Beta today.

OK so, for those who follow this blog, I went to the FLISOL event here in Lima, or should I say eventS as in the end I was scheduled for a talk on both sides of the city, with a one-hour interval to run from one to the other. The first talk, happening in the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú (UTP) was good because there were non-educational people there, meaning some business people that actually wanted to know about e-learning because their companies are looking into it.

... it's been a long (set of) week(s) working on the first really acceptable version of Dokeos 1.8.5. Initially, we didn't really want to put so much in there. There are not so many new features, yet we've made it so that it adds a set of commonly asked-for features. Just half an hour ago, I tagged the 1.8.5 Beta release, so it's officially out there. You can download it here: http://www.dokeos.com/download/dokeos-1.8.5-beta.tar.gz The first that comes to my mind is LDAP.

[digg=http://digg.com/programming/Dokeos_Drupal_link_in_the_making] I had an interesting talk with Marco Antonio Villegas Vega the morning of 19th April 2008 about a possible link between Drupal and Dokeos in the medium-term future (a few months). The idea is that Dokeos lacks one thing that Moodle has (but that we don't want in Dokeos itself): the possibility to build a widget-based website with your content. Dokeos has a strong structure, which Moodle lacks of, making it simpler for new users to get around

I was wondering today why use mbstring rather than iconv in Dokeos, and honestly I didn't remember exactly why I had chosen mbstring in the past, but finding information about the *differences* between the two. mbstring is a library that deals with multi-byte character strings iconv is also a library that deals with multi-byte character strings However, their respective documentation doesn't mention the other one. Searching a bit more, I found a

I've updated the 1.8.5 page, basically to mention that although I had initially planned the beta to be released last Friday, I failed on that predicament and I'm trying to make it ready for tomorrow or Wednesday the 16th. Obviously, the official release date for Dokeos 1.8.5 stable will be pushed back (a lot more, this one) as we want to have a beta, then a release candidate, then a stable release, each of them separated by at least one week to let you guys try it out and report things that are *still* not working.