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Ana Elena, from Uruguay, sent this video to Dokeos Latinoamérica the other day. We first discussed in a blog comment on the Dokeos Latinoamérica's blog, then I wanted to know more about their project, so this was their answer... [youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bjkEUjA5gM] Cute, isn't it?

This is a draft list of what you need to think of when you upgrade a Dokeos from a cPanel install...

• check you have the sufficient login information to access the Dokeos portal, the cPanel files manager and the cPanel MySQL account for the corresponding Dokeos portal
• connect to the cPanel server
• take a backup of the database (possibly through phpMyAdmin if there is no easier way) and download it on your computer (safeguard)
• connect to the file manager
• if possible compress the whole Dokeos directory (after a check to see if archive is not filled w

Just a quick link to a few sites that I want to remember in a few days time, when I'll try to get more information about the differences between PHPUnit and SimpleTest. http://phpundercontrol.org/about.html http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_CodeSniffer http://maphpia.com/impacto-estimable-gracias-a-unit-testing/ (in Spanish)

There's a nice exhibition of survey results here that detail why people go to conferences. As we're preparing more and more actively the Dokeos Users Days America 2009 (25th and 26th of June), we're starting to get a little bit more nervous and start looking into a lot of information.

Regular readers will start to think that I like giving delays that I cannot respect. To be on the *safe* side, I'd like them to know that customers always have priority over the software, which gives me a good excuse to be late on delivering the public version of Dokeos 1.8.6 :-) Alternatively, customers are the ones investing into Dokeos and allowing us to develop a great product. So thank you, dear customer.

Pèire Brechet, of Marseille, France, asked me to be allowed to translate Dokeos to Occitan, an antique language from the borders of France, Spain and Italy. With Friulian, Esperanto and Cusquenian Quechua, this makes for our fourth "special language" integrated into Dokeos. There's still a lot of work to be done to get these languages to become a full translation, though... Heads up, and let's go for 1.8.6!

I have a list of e-mails that I extracted from MySQL as something like this: name@example.com firstname lastname name2@example.com firstname2 lastname2 name3@example.com firstname3 lastname3 and I want them to be in this format: firstname lastname firsntame2 lastname2 firstname3 lastname3 Using VIM, I can do: :% s/^/ / :% s/()s(w*)s(.*$)/2 3 1/ The last one is a bit more complex but uses the n-style references to parenthesed elements in the matching part.

I have a list of e-mails that I extracted from MySQL as something like this:

name@example.com firstname lastname name2@example.com firstname2 lastname2 name3@example.com firstname3 lastname3

and I want them to be in this format:

firstname lastname <name@example.com> firsntame2 lastname2 <name2@example.com> firstname3 lastname3 <name3@example.com>

Using VIM, I can do:

:% s/^/</ :% s/s/> / :% s/(<.*>)s(w*)s(.*$)/2 3 1/

The last one is a bit more complex but uses the n-style references t

There's an interesting document from Pentaho about Open Source Business Model. I like the link at the end.

We've been stuck all week on SCORM problems (time tracking).