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In some very specific cases, Dokeos users might want to redirect a course's homepage to one of the sub-elements of the course.

There is an interesting article (with plenty of links, but I haven't investigated it fully so I don't know about the real sources of all this - probably not much usable legally) on "Boycott Novell", a website apparently talking about the underground conspiracies of the mighty against Linux. http://boycottnovell.com.nyud.net:8080/2009/01/30/microsoft-intel-anti-linux/ I thought it would be nice to share. We learn about anti-Linux actions,  Gartner reports alteration, etc.

So we have a beta... wow. There's been plenty of work on that version, but there is still a lot of things to fix.

Hehe... Should I announce it or should I keep it quiet a little bit more? :-) The beta is now available for download from the Dokeos repository: http://www.dokeos.com/download/dokeos-1.8.6-beta.zip There has been an enormous amount of work on this version. If you find any bug, please report it in http://projects.dokeos.com, after checking that it hasn't been reported already. We'll start making proper announcements soon :-)

I just found about the flossmetrics project through the FOSDEM program. Reading the details, it just looks like some wacky free version of ohloh.net... Let's keep an eye on that.

It's generally difficult to find statistics or any kind of benchmark of salaries in IT. Indexel has given us one for year 2008. You'll find a table at the end of the article with the average salary per type of employee. http://www.indexel.net/management/salaires-des-informaticiens-bilan-2008-tendance-2009.html

As the beta draws closer (it should have been released last week but we had to add some last minute stuff to avoid waiting 6 months before being able to integrate them), we just happened to organise the January Drupal Perú reunion here in Lima, and...

When developing GPL applications, we are constantly faced with the problem of having to find usable icons that do not infringe the license... Julio recently posted an article on our Spanish blog to talk about IconFinder, a great website to do just that.

There's a bit of a fuss at the moment around the recent release of a list of the 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors known to humanity. Apparently, there's still some work going on to recommend the best practices to avoid them, but the list is available here: http://www.sans.org/top25errors/ Dokeos is most probably falling short of a few of these. Let's try to analyse that and make it a better soft.