If you’re developing PHP software today but studied PHP based on old-ish manuals or manuals written by people who did, you might find a mix of calls to dirname(__FILE__) and __DIR__ and wonder what the difference is… Past the fact that there is no real difference I could find in the data returned, it is […]
This article can be considered an update of our first article on installing Chamilo (on a Raspberry Pi B+). This time, we are testing it with Raspberry 3, as of the 1st of April 2017 (no joke intended). Last time, we were testing with Chamilo 1.9, which is arguably less load-intensive, considering it doesn’t include […]
Redmine is a project management system and a support ticket management system. See other articles on this blog and my video on YouTube about a previous version of Redmine for more info. At some point (and this only happened to us after years of use and more than 10.000 tickets/issues registered), you might want to […]
There is a surprising number of cases where you’d want to change the URL of a Chamilo portal, but the more common we see is when you take a backup copy of a portal and want to use that copy to build a new test portal. Obviously, if you keep the same URL, you’re going […]
If you are a developer or system administrator and you (wisely) manage some Chamilo portals through Git, you might want to upgrade, at some point, from Chamilo 1.9(.x) to Chamilo 1.11(.x). This is a complex process, for many reasons, so let me drive you through it. Precautions Before doing this, please take a backup of […]
This article should be extended soon, but in the meantime, we thought this article Mark S. Kolich couldn’t be missed if you’re having issues with HTTP 301 permanent redirect configurations. http://mark.koli.ch/set-cache-control-and-expires-headers-on-a-redirect-with-mod-rewrite An interesting discussion was also going on in the comments section of this article: http://getluky.net/2010/12/14/301-redirects-cannot-be-undon/ (look for Dominick’s first comment).
Ergonomics and usability with Chamilo LMS. Sometimes Open Source software gets criticized for lacking behind proprietary software when talking about compelling interfaces. Many people in our community, after spending years with other solutions, describe our software, Chamilo LMS, as the easiest to use and to manage. We would like to take this opportunity to explain […]
Understanding the differences between Chamilo (LMS), BeezNest and the Chamilo Association Truth be told, we didn’t do a lot of efforts to make this clear in the past, but as Chamilo LMS growth more popular and the business needs around Chamilo increase considerably, I feel like things should be set straight to avoid confusion and […]
This guide will take you through the process of installing Chamilo 1.10 (from Github sources) for testing on a fresh Digital Ocean instance, on an Ubuntu 16.04 distribution. A previous article on this blog explains how to install Chamilo 1.9 using Juju Charms and another article explains how to install 1.10.2 on Ubuntu 15.10. The […]
If you ever want to implement projects with Odoo and, like us, you are a bit itchy about non-free-software licenses and alternative BSD or LGPL-like licenses, you might want to know this. Odoo itself was previously (as OpenERP) AGPL, but it apparently (following David from Odoo S.A. in a message on the 2nd of March […]
This guide will take you through the process of installing Chamilo 1.10.2 (from Github packages) for testing on a fresh Digital Ocean instance. A previous article on this blog explains how to install Chamilo 1.9 using Juju Charms. To follow this guide, you should be familiar with the notion of SSH keys and installing/configuring server […]
If you design your icons in SVG with Inkscape and wonder how to quickly make an “inactive” icon in grayscale, here’s a quick fix (at least for Linux users): inkscape -f teacher_na.svg –verb EditSelectAll –verb org.inkscape.color.desaturate.noprefs –verb FileSave –verb FileQuit This will edit your file in-place (so you need to take a copy first) and […]
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