This is still under construction, but some of the certification exams are already ready to be taken.

I'm always surprised at how large companies are taking their IT politics too easily, and then are surprised by what happens. Today, Josh Bersin (of Bersin & Associates, a great guy to follow: @Josh_Bersin) published an article on the plans by SAP to buy SuccessFactors (probably the leader in employees performance management software, at least in terms of completeness), and the fact that some customer of Su

Sometimes I like to treat this blog as a personal one and write down things that might affect in fundamental ways our future... or at least my own future, potentially. Anyway, I'm currently living in Peru and had a series of meeting over the last two months with the new Electronical Government Office (ONGEI).

Recently I've had to fix a very strange cPanel installation of Chamilo. For some reason small files could be uploaded but not large files.

For all those of you who've been expecting this release for a long time, we are finally closing in and this week seems to be the ideal time to have ourselves an first release candidate, which will last only one week of all goes well. Unlike previous versions, Chamilo 1.8.8.4 doesn't bring any major new feature. Instead, it is the fruit of a very deep process of trials and fixes, which has been lasting more than 60 days now and sums up to a staggering 1000 of working hours.

Just publishing a list of references that I found about Mathematics and e-learning.

• The Effects of Blended E-Learning on Mathematics and Computer Attitudes in Pre-Calculus Algebra, Balara

It's been my privilege and pleasure to work in the e-learning field for the last 7 year. Somehow, having a teacher as a mother and a computer scientist as a father, it was kind of a natural outcome that I'd be an e-learning specialist.

You probably know we have the automated tests in Chamilo 1.8.8 LMS (a few thousands, actually), that guarantee a better quality of delivery. But sometimes you might wonder how to actually run those tests, so you can be an official Chamilo tester too.

How to run the tests

The short answer is you only have to run one command (and you might even load a page in your browser). The long answer, however, is quite longer.