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Introduction

To prepare for RC1, I have to submit the latest database changes for this release. The objective of these changes is specifically to add the management of repeated events to a simple agenda system that doesn't have them. So, what's the big deal?

Next week, we will be releasing an RC1 for Dokeos 1.8.5. The main targets for this version are:

• fixing SCORM (import, export and reporting)
• fixing audio recorder and some videoconference minor bugs
• improving the templating system
• adding repetitive events to the agenda (and iCal import, as well)

I'm quite annoyed because I will have to update the database structure to allow for repetitive events, but we're still before RC1 so it is still an "acceptable" change, and apparently it's been said it would be in 1.8.5, so...

2008-08-02 update

Although the post is in Spanish, one of my colleagues (and consequently I also did) installed Eclipse Ganymede manually on his Ubuntu 8.04 and it works beautifully (although it uses even more memory). Check out the article.

Original post: I know, I should report all this properly in the Eclipse bug-tracking utility, but the truth is I don't know how to explain it.

Wouldn't you know...

[digg=http://digg.com/programming/Dokeos_1_8_5_Beta_2_Released] Alright, so I did release a little brother for Dokeos 1.8.5 Beta today.

As Jesús Castagnetto was presenting a long talk on how to improve one's PHP coding practices, I decided that the event was worthwile and went a little earlier to follow Diego's presentation on GNOME and Fernando's presentation on Drupal (although these two were of little interest to me, I still learnt a bit from both). Diego was presenting GNOME 2.24 (if I remember well) but for some reason (I got there several minutes after he started) he didn't have internet access, which seemed to prevent him from showing what he wanted.

OK so, for those who follow this blog, I went to the FLISOL event here in Lima, or should I say eventS as in the end I was scheduled for a talk on both sides of the city, with a one-hour interval to run from one to the other. The first talk, happening in the Universidad Tecnológica del Perú (UTP) was good because there were non-educational people there, meaning some business people that actually wanted to know about e-learning because their companies are looking into it.

... it's been a long (set of) week(s) working on the first really acceptable version of Dokeos 1.8.5. Initially, we didn't really want to put so much in there. There are not so many new features, yet we've made it so that it adds a set of commonly asked-for features. Just half an hour ago, I tagged the 1.8.5 Beta release, so it's officially out there. You can download it here: http://www.dokeos.com/download/dokeos-1.8.5-beta.tar.gz The first that comes to my mind is LDAP.

Introduction

Setting up several VirtualHost's on an Apache2 server is easy. Setting up several VirtualHost's on an Apache 2 server, some of them using SSL (HTTPS) is considerably less easy. The main problem is the documentation, not really easy to find, with examples of such configurations. Here, we will intend to give all the steps to get there, remaining at a minimal level of complexity. If you want more details, I suggest you have a look at this nice article by Artur Maj.

[digg=http://digg.com/programming/Dokeos_Drupal_link_in_the_making] I had an interesting talk with Marco Antonio Villegas Vega the morning of 19th April 2008 about a possible link between Drupal and Dokeos in the medium-term future (a few months). The idea is that Dokeos lacks one thing that Moodle has (but that we don't want in Dokeos itself): the possibility to build a widget-based website with your content. Dokeos has a strong structure, which Moodle lacks of, making it simpler for new users to get around