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http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/the-worst-web-page-in-the-world/ Today, the worst one is not really that bad, but the next one (marked as epileptic NASA site) is really good (or should I say really bad...?)

Herodoto is joining the Dokeos development team as an independent (and distant) developer today. He will be in charge of integrating the wiki tool, under my coaching.

http://www.develop-one.net/blog/2008/08/27/HugADeveloper.aspx So realistic...

Today I had a phone chat with Eric Marguin, my french counterpart, and we ended up scheduling more or less a fixed week for the release of Dokeos 1.8.6. This will be week 41 if all goes according to plan, which is between the 6th and the 10th of October 2008. Although we won't be able to do the complete quiz tool revamp we wanted, we have been adding quite a lot to that and completing our developments on other tools. It's still too soon to talk about all that, but I'll be back around mid-September to make it all clear.

eTiny (OpenERP's web server) shows default header images and style that might not really suit your needs. [caption id="attachment_396" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="OpenERP with default style"]

I recently learnt that eTiny, OpenERP's web server, is actually caching pages when in "production" mode (this mode can be changed in the configuration file which is /etc/etiny-server.cfg if you followed the documentation here). This means that installing some modules may not have a direct visual effect if you have already seen a page before altering it with the module installation. To avoid caching, you can either change the eTiny server mode in /etc/etiny-server.c

This is a *very* short note, but I'm writing it down in case I would forget in the coming weeks. There is a language detection package available in the PEAR project, which might come handy in the future for Dokeos: http://pear.php.net/package/Text_LanguageDetect

A few weeks ago, I explained how to change the Dokeos footer to make it "float". Today, in the context of an indirect contract with the Ministry of Education in Peru, I have to change the style a little bit more. The idea is to [1] have a left bar showing large tools icons in the course homepage, and [2] have an alternative portal homepage for users, showing an introductory screen of the main general tools. This must all work on a 800x600 screen (which is a real challenge).

[1] Left toolbar showing course tools

This is not as tricky as it sounds (although it's very close to it).

Following an internal meeting at BeezNest, we decided to officially provide services for OpenERP before the end of the year, through an official partnership with Tiny SPRL, the company behind the product. We found a lot of little bugs and usability problems, and submitted our first bug report following the little comment by Stéphane Wirtel, one of our acquaintances (through other channels than OpenERP) and an official employee of Tiny SPRL (as a developer of OpenERP). However, and although we found these bugs and usability problems

Following my article on SCORM 2.0 White Paper call, and the kind personal invitation to contribute from Mike Rustici, I decided to go ahead and submit my list of suggestions to the SCORM 2.0 thinking process team just before the deadline (I've been quite busy on other stuff, including urgent personal matters). This is the first time ever that Dokeos contributes somehow (even though it's a very little piece of the enormous puzzle) to the design of an e-learning standard.