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Although it has never been really clearly told, BeezNest is, through the work of one of its main developers (myself), contributing importantly to Dokeos. I'm just putting the last touch to the release of the stable version of Dokeos 1.8.5, which has seen major improvements in stability since 1.8.4, and a tremendous amount of bugfixes and new practical features.

For the ones of you who are using their own CSS, there are a few changes that have appeared in Dokeos 1.8.5 that might affect you... First of all, we have removed the "default" style (in the Dokeos package, that is, so it won't affect you if you are migrating from a 1.8.x).

I've just finished generating the new API documentation for Dokeos 1.8.5. It's meant for PHP developers only. http://www.dokeos.com/doc/dokeos_api_1.8.5/

The most troublesome bit of code when it comes to migrating a Dokeos 1.6.x portal to a Dokeos 1.8.x version, is without doubt the learning paths bit, represented by the main/install/update-db-scorm-1.6.x-1.8.0.inc.php script. The fact that it may look like the script is wrong sometimes (because it fails and leaves your database in a somewhat broken state), the problem actually comes down to the original database's integrity. For example, you might get an error saying this:

SQL error in file /var/www/dokeos/main/install/update-db-scorm-1.6.x-1.8.0.inc.php at line 604.

It's still a bit premature because we'd like to try it out a few times more before officially announcing it on the website, so if you want to help, feel free to download your version from here: http://www.dokeos.com/download/dokeos-1.8.5.zip In a few hours from now we will make the official announcement, so the official release date will be the 12th of June anyway. If you happen to witness some wierd thing in the install or upgrade procedure, please, let me know as soon as possible! Otherwise, just enj

After having a look at a nice little game in Python (Frets on Fire, try it, it's a game of the likes of Guitar Hero, totally GPL) and seeing that they had a "code walkthrough" page on their wiki, I thought that the name "code walkthrough" was very explicit and helpful so... I have put together a few lines of explanation regarding the Dokeos 1.8 code for those who just joined the Dokeos development community. http://www.dokeos.com/wiki/index.php/Dokeos_1.8_Code_walkthrough It's not much but hopefully it might save

I don't know about you, but I really don't like the Dokeos footer moving around the screen when there's less content. Luckily, CSS offer an easy way to change this. Let's say I want to update the css/dokeos_classic/ theme. The rule, as always, is to make a copy of the directory that is the closest to what I want, and only work on a copy, so I'm going to do that.

During the event Journées du Libre in Brussels last week, somebody came up with a great decorative apetizer idea for Linux events. Check out the pictures on the original site here I took the liberty to copy them over here, just in case they would be lost and without backup :-) The main components are a carrot, olives and small goat cheese balls.

I'm currently reviewing (together with Thomas and Julio) the latest things to be done before we officially release Dokeos 1.8.5 stable. The list is available in our bugs tracking system and will obviously change a lot before tomorrow.

Thomas Koch published a nice comment on the XDebug mailing-list recently.