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Let's talk about non-computer stuff for once... I don't know if you read about the Danton (a French military boat sunk during the first world war by a German submarine) discovery last week... Quite interesting. A friend of mine sent me a link to this article about the possible discovery of the Atlantis today.

Did you ever wonder when Dokeos really started to change code on the basis of the Claroline project? Well, Sourceforge's got an answer for you... The first commit ever made (by Olivier Brouckaert, like many of the first 2000 commits, I still don't understand how it is humanly possible) was made on the 23rd of January 2004. So basically, as far as we talk about the code itself, Dokeos is celebrating its 5 years and a month today!

That's where I think I should have went on taking Japanese classes... http://japan.cnet.com/blog/geeklog/2009/02/23/entry_27020579/

It's been a while since the idea first came to me, but yesterday we managed, with a bunch of acquaintances, to setup the basic structure so, starting 23rd of May, I'll be giving an 80-hours long specialized PHP course to 10 pre-selected candidates from Perú, in order for them to prepare for the Zend PHP Certification and for me to spot the good ones and give them a job right away. The training will not be very expensive, but we will put a psychological entry test and will ask for a bunch of important prerequisites. I'm used to give the training as I just ended up a 3-months training for my e

I've been looking for a few hours now for a "quick and easy" solution at securing the Dokeos web services, but I have still to go through a whole lot of technical details. Looking for help (at avoiding so much reading work), I have sent an e-mail to the php-general mailing-list, hoping for an answer. Because this e-mail is the result of considerable search efforts, I'm saving it here.

The pen-test mailing list (see http://www.securityfocus.com) has a short thread going about security certifications, which basically gives two possibilities for security certifications in the case of watching the information security: http://www.giac.org/certifications/security/gcia.php http://www.giac.org/certifications/security/gcih.php That's a personal bookmark for later. There's also an Ubuntu Professional Certi

One of our antique servers at OVH, ns21589, is expiring during the next hour. Making a little bit of cleaning, I see that my oldest file on this one is dated May 2005.

Download it from http://www.dokeos.com/download/dokeos-1.8.6-beta2.zip This time, we are quite sure it will be the last beta. The RC1 should be out before the end of February. There are still little bugs in documents edition and upload, as well as in exercises, but these are all minor bugs in comparison to what one could find in Dokeos 1.8.5. There are loooooads of new features (really, I mean it) - make sure you check the administration panel to activate some of them (the big ones).

In just two days, I came up with two different reasons to point to Landure's technical doc's site. http://howto.landure.fr/gnu-linux/ubuntu-dapper-drake/developpement-et-serveurs/installation-du-module-mssql-pour-php-5-sur-ubuntu-dapper-drake This time, it was to setup a connection to a MSSQL server from a Debian server.

The post is in French, but is certainly worth the effort of translation for people looking on how to do this: http://howto.landure.fr/gnu-linux/debian-4-0-etch/creer-un-certificat-ssl-multi-domaines If enough people ask for a good translation, I'll consider doing that here.