http://rhaptos.org Blog entries by Connexions staff and students daily 1 2005-04-04T01:15:00Z http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/LaTeX-Importer-Limitations LaTeX Importer Limitations No publisher bnwest 2008-01-16T10:18+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/catalogrefresh Copies instances will in some places still refer to cnx.org, making them hard to use. I usually just ignore it, but if it becomes cumbersome, you can fix it. No publisher jccooper 2008-01-03T16:04+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/ricesvn Rice IT also runs a general-purpose SVN service. No publisher jccooper 2008-01-02T12:19+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/backups Rice provides a backup space for everybody, and we should probably use it. It's not too hard... No publisher jccooper 2008-01-02T12:08+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/rwagner/blogentry.2007-12-19.9069304718 No publisher rwagner 2007-12-19T16:49+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/rwagner/contentMathMLcase No publisher rwagner 2007-12-10T17:46+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/manpreet/blogentry.2007-11-28.8191664027 No publisher manpreet 2007-11-28T18:28+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/reedstrm/munin If knowledge is power, memory is the vessel of that power No publisher reedstrm 2007-11-16T16:54+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kef/upa-rhyne <p>Rob Rhyne (UPA-DC 2007)</p> <p>Rhyne&rsquo;s talk was about using common design patterns and everyday metaphors to achieve consistent and usable interfaces without demanding strict uniformity. He says uniformity is problematic if it is being invoked to justify a design that is one of the following:</p> <ul> <li>easier to build but is actually less useful, </li> <li>a substitute for a more useful creative solution, or </li> <li>when it simply results in something that is boring and undistinguished. </li> </ul> <p>He showed Google search results, Yahoo search results, and Microsoft Live search results and without the header these look nearly identical, but the two catch up searches really need &nbsp;to distinguish themselves visually without breaking the understandability. Conventions can be broken when they are immediately obvious. He cited successful examples that broke away from conventions: the iPhone interface and a CD burner called disco that uses drifting smoke on the desktop to indicate that it is still working while allowing the user to do other stuff. </p> <p>An audience member working for a medical site told a story about trying to develop websites of information for diabetics and for breast cancer survivors. The pointy haired bosses (ooh that&rsquo;s me) wanted uniformity, but these two communities are actually very different in how they approach finding information (no details given unfortunately). I retell that story, because I think it has some parallels with our communities of authors and readers. The Connexions stylesheets were the first design for allowing communities to relate to content as communities. The stylesheets controlled the entire look and feel of the navigation, content, CNX and branding which turned out to be very hard to understand for readers, and difficult to maintain for development. We are now moving toward supporting styling in the content area, but preserving CNX navigation. We plan to provide style parameters that can be applied by module authors, collection authors, lens makers, and readers (in that order). Will that be enough? And will it really be easier to maintain? </p> <strong>Rhyne gave a couple of suggested references:</strong> <ul><li>Yahoo! Pattern Library<br /> <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns">http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns</a></li> <li>&ldquo;Web Patterns&rdquo;, John Allsopp<br /> <a href="http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/2005/11/webpattenrs_and.html">http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/2005/11/webpattenrs_and.html</a></li> <li>Flickr Design Pattern Photo pool</li> </ul> No publisher kef 2007-11-06T22:40+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kef/upa-breadcrumbs <p>I heard a brief talk by Angela Colter (UPA-DC 2007) on a study of breadcrumb usage. The researchers wanted to know how people think of them, and how they use them. </p> <p>Three types of breadcrumbs: </p> <ol> <li><strong>Location model</strong> &ndash; single breadcrumb path to any resource</li> <li><strong>Path model</strong> &ndash; shows exactly how this user got to the page</li> <li><strong>Attribute model</strong> --&nbsp; gives metadata information (categories, subcategories) &ndash; this model is used by Amazon and results in multiple breadcrumbs paths showing on a single page.</li> </ol> <p>Results: </p> <ul> <li> Users describe breadcrumbs as paths, but think of them as locations. </li> <li>Novice users are very likely to use them, and understand they are links. </li> <li>Most commonly used to find something related. While heading back to the search box the user trips over the breadcrumbs and see that something in the breadcrumb trail might be useful. </li> </ul> <p>Breadcrumb problems:</p> <ul> <li>If the breadcrumb link label is named something different than the page you get to that is a problem and users never use the crumbs again if that happens to them. (In this study)</li> </ul> No publisher kef 2007-11-05T10:36+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/LaTeX-Importer-Bibliographies Shows how the forms of LaTeX bibs get translated by tralics and then by us into CNXML. No publisher bnwest 2007-11-02T11:29+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kef/js-research <p>From Jared Spool at UPA-DC-2007 again: These are the things that his company is actively researching &ndash; the unsolved problems of Web 2.0 usability.</p> <ul> <li>What does it mean to produce a usable API?</li> <li>RSS &ndash; When chronologically isn&rsquo;t the right organization, what then?</li> <li>Tagging &ndash; How do you unify things that are intended to be the same, but aren&rsquo;t such as misspellings and alternates (NY, NYC, New York etc.)? &nbsp;The big search engines have made headway in this area somewhat. </li> <li>Quality: What is the role for the editorial with regard to user-generated content and how to support that role?<br /> <br /> This quality question is exactly the same question that Connexions is asking and trying to answer with lenses. The corresponding business question is how do we support an economy of editors while preserving open content? Related to the quality of content is the quality of tagging. Audience members brought up the need for expert generated ontologies and subject vocabularies in addition to completely user generated tags.</li> <li>Social networking -- How to avoid mobs?</li> </ul> No publisher kef 2007-10-24T20:49+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/wfchange The default state for content on rhaptos.org is now 'published'. No publisher jccooper 2007-10-18T15:46+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kef/js-web20 Jared Spool gave the following definition of Web 2.0:<br /> 1. API's -- the ability to get the data without going through the UI<br /> 2. RSS <br /> 3. Folksonomies and tagging<br /> 4. Social networking<br /> or is it just "marketing hype"? No publisher kef 2007-10-17T21:05+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kef/js-organizations Jared Spool gave a very quick rundown of things he thought were required of good organizations. By implication such organizations are more likely to get the user experience done well also. No publisher kef 2007-10-17T07:48+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kef/js-training Jared Spool talks about design, the Wall Street Journal, chicken sexing, and sushi-making. No publisher kef 2007-10-15T19:36+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kef/js-designsmall Jared Spool on design at UPA-DC 2007 No publisher kef 2007-10-15T09:01+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/blogentry.2007-09-28.6411602045 This stage needs refactoring to support future development. No publisher cbearden 2007-09-28T14:17+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/blogentry.2007-09-28.4935639575 LaTeX has floating environments, of which tables and figures are the most important. Footnotes from within those environments are problematic. No publisher cbearden 2007-09-28T13:40+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/blogentry.2007-09-25.7478753238 A thread from the W3C www-math mail list mentions a possibly useful LaTeX package. No publisher cbearden 2007-09-25T15:10+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/LaTeX-Importer-Workflow LaTeX Importer Workflow No publisher bnwest 2007-09-24T15:36+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/CNXML-Short-Comings CNXML Short Comings As Seen During The Import Process No publisher bnwest 2007-09-24T12:39+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/blogentry.2007-09-21.7378928279 Recommended reading for learning more about TeX from John Culleton in comp.text.tex. No publisher cbearden 2007-09-21T10:38+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/blogentry.2007-09-20.7119207584 The maintainer of ucs.sty is no longer working on the package. No publisher cbearden 2007-09-20T13:24+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/blogentry.2007-09-13.1639290023 Some notes as I work through the University of Cambridge Engineering Dept.'s LaTeX tutorial No publisher cbearden 2007-09-13T18:55+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/Tralics-notes Tralics notes No publisher bnwest 2007-08-27T11:03+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/eps2png Converting LaTeX .eps files to .png files. No publisher bnwest 2007-08-23T16:16+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/Hermes%20notes Hermes notes No publisher bnwest 2007-08-20T10:47+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/plonerecipes Nice plone.org howto regarding common Plone programming idioms. No publisher jccooper 2007-08-17T18:11+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/TtM%20notes TtM notes No publisher bnwest 2007-08-16T14:23+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/LaTeXML%20notes LaTeXML notes No publisher bnwest 2007-08-16T14:08+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/browsechunks The browse system's alphabetical selection for authors, etc, works okay for us, since we have enough data, but it works poorly for bare Rhaptos installs, and is already starting to be a problem for some of the more popular letters. No publisher jccooper 2007-08-15T17:10+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/easgarov/latexml1 LaTeXML is the tool that converts from latex to xhtml. No publisher easgarov 2007-08-14T12:50+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/svnmerge The SVN merge facilities are pretty dumb, and doing merges, especially to long-lived branches, is annoying. I came across an SVN helper tool called (a bit unhelpfully) 'svnmerge', and am trying it out on the Plone 2.5 branches. So far I like it. No publisher jccooper 2007-08-07T17:15+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jenn/2007-08-06 I know I'll lose track of what I did this week if I don't blog it, so for the benefit of our absent manager I'm going to try to do daily progress reports this week. No publisher jenn 2007-08-06T16:29+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/upgrades An example of explicit upgrades in an install script. No publisher jccooper 2007-07-17T15:20+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/easgarov/tex4htui tex4ht linux installation worked!<br> well, almost... No publisher easgarov 2007-07-12T11:38+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/tex4ht%20notes tex4ht notes ... the horror No publisher bnwest 2007-07-09T13:09+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/difftool Connexions has slipped a fair bit into the Plone core. Now we have more! No publisher jccooper 2007-07-09T11:08+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/Firefox%20funkiness%20with%20attributes Firefox funkiness with attributes: offsetTop and offsetLeft. No publisher bnwest 2007-07-06T17:20+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/tracbranches As if we don't have enough, I think maybe we need one more field in the bug system: branches. No publisher jccooper 2007-07-05T13:01+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/easgarov/blogentry.2007-07-03.0803360730 tex4ht is a collection of utilities to convert latex to various xml formats. One of the utilities is oolatex, which converts from latex format to openoffice document. No publisher easgarov 2007-07-03T11:24+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/easgarov/blogentry.2007-06-26.3043192160 No publisher easgarov 2007-06-26T12:13+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kef/collectiontypes We are now supporting course and report as collection types. Kyle is building an interface to enter them when creating collections and so we need to decide what collection types to support. The blog entry discusses bibtex types and others that have occurred in our practice. No publisher kef 2007-06-21T13:40+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kef/citeuliketoc CiteULike is publishing Journal TOC's and then letting people link to the articles. Should Connexions do that with collections? No publisher kef 2007-06-21T13:33+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/Word%20Importer%20Best%20Practices Word Importer Best Practices No publisher bnwest 2007-06-20T17:30+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/easgarov/blogentry.2007-06-20.8737898928 Short help for authors who import word documents No publisher easgarov 2007-06-20T16:41+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/easgarov/blogentry.2007-06-19.0830285846 My experiences in playing around with Word Importer No publisher easgarov 2007-06-19T17:46+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/Formulator%20Usage%20Notes Formulator Usage Notes No publisher bnwest 2007-06-19T10:37+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/Edit%20In%20Place%20Improvements Edit In Place Improvements No publisher bnwest 2007-06-13T16:09+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/st3/roundtable 10 main points from the Author round table No publisher st3 2007-06-12T10:16+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/reedstrm/blogentry.2007-06-11.4826656872 Trac instances almost ready. Where should they live? No publisher reedstrm 2007-06-11T16:00+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kef/roundtable I uploaded Sebastian's notes on the author round table from Tuesday, June 05. They are under User Interface/User Testing. http://rhaptos.org/ui/ut/roundtablejune07 No publisher kef 2007-06-07T23:18+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kef/lensblog I have uploaded the lens functional design draft and a proposed version 1 implementation for July. Cameron Cooper will be producing an architectural design for the implmentation shortly. Comments are welcome. All the documents are available in http://rhaptos.org/architecture/lenses/. No publisher kef 2007-06-05T22:41+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/thefuture Some links to demonstrate and learn about some of the new technologies we'll be able to use when we're running Plone 2.5. No publisher jccooper 2007-06-04T13:41+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/workflow Not my idea, but I thought I'd note this so it doesn't get lost. No publisher jccooper 2007-05-30T16:48+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/publishLog One way we might improve intra-day recovery would be keeping an independent log of published content. No publisher jccooper 2007-05-29T09:34+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/upgrading The future of product upgrades in Rhaptos. No publisher jccooper 2007-05-24T20:08+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/manpreet/blogentry.2007-05-14.6594950385 No publisher manpreet 2007-05-14T17:20+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/formtemplate With Plone2.5, we can now get add unload protection (warnings that you are about to lose information that you entered in a form) fairly easily on our forms. Here is a list of all the forms on the site that could possibly have such protection enabled. No publisher kclarks 2007-04-24T12:35+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/authordisplay A List of all the templates that display role information and author info No publisher kclarks 2007-04-20T10:35+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/Importing%20Math%20into%20CNX%20Story Our importing math into CNX author story. No publisher bnwest 2007-04-06T14:20+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/plone25runs Plone 2.5 upgrade script runs all the way through now. No publisher jccooper 2007-03-29T11:52+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/plone25progress So I can start an instance on Python 2.4/Zope 2.9/Plone 2.5.2. I can also run *most* of the upgrade script! Bad news is the timing. No publisher jccooper 2007-03-23T17:15+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/ploneMigrationLong One problem with the Plone migration that has already become clear to me is that it'll take a long time to run. No publisher jccooper 2007-03-21T14:08+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/lenstorm Possible different types of lensing... No publisher jccooper 2007-03-19T15:32+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/TeXMeeting Notes on a meeting RichB organized to discuss Connexions printing. No publisher cbearden 2007-03-15T18:00+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/subjectdata Some suggestions I have for cleaning up our subject data No publisher kclarks 2007-03-13T17:11+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/2007.03.09-15.25 Some notes on our new roles in metadata, for discussion and future reference, from a conversation with Ross. No publisher cbearden 2007-03-12T17:27+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/alaxslt Alan Runyan is interested in an XSLT future for the UI of Plone. I had lunch with him today to discuss this, and our situation. No publisher jccooper 2007-02-15T17:50+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/lizzardg/subjectnotes The guidelines I'm using when I mark subjects on modules. No publisher lizzardg 2007-02-07T11:02+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/i18n-hits-trunk I rolled i18n to trunk today. I couple things that people should be aware of. No publisher kclarks 2007-02-05T17:46+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jenn/blogentry.2007-02-04.0726799291 Well, I normally just report status on my testing page, but it's complex enough these days that I think I'll elaborate in a blog post. No publisher jenn 2007-02-05T09:30+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/endorsements I've got a del.icio.us-based endorsement system running. It's a bit rough, but that can be fixed. No publisher jccooper 2007-01-25T17:53+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kef/kef%20mockup%20test Kathi had family test three mockups for the new homepage using questions that Manpreet devised. I transcribed what they said and did. When the first person is used, I am quoting them. No publisher kef 2007-01-23T10:20+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/contentdeletion Normally we don't delete content, but sometimes we are obliged to. Here's how... This blog has been superseded by http://rhaptos.org/docs/sysadmindocs/sa-deletecontent No publisher jccooper 2007-01-18T17:46+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/diffengine My skin-components-by-patch idea has been realized (in a somewhat rough form) in DifferenceEngine. We'll probably be using it going forward, so get a-learnin'. No publisher jccooper 2007-01-10T18:10+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/reedstrm/reuse a look at linking in Connexions collections/courses and modules there in. No publisher reedstrm 2007-01-04T14:48+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kef/fullnamebehavior No publisher kef 2006-12-22T13:31+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/createInstance A script to automate devinstance creation. No publisher jccooper 2006-12-21T12:48+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/maxwell/blogentry.2006-12-12.6808876683 No publisher maxwell 2006-12-12T17:18+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/whenbranching Subsequent merging of a branch can be made a bit easier if we add a simple step. No publisher jccooper 2006-12-07T16:07+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/Making%20a%20Better%20Word%20Importer%20... Making a Better Word Importer ... No publisher bnwest 2006-12-06T10:00+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/ff20 Firefox 2.0 is out, and one of the spiffy new features is auto-discovery and installation of search plugins. I set us up for this on a new devset. No publisher jccooper 2006-11-17T20:58+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/Harvesting%20Imported%20Word%20Files Mission - Harvest imported Word doc files in order to be able to profile the imported Word usage. Track both the successes and the failures of the Word importer. Harvesting can be turned on/off on the server dynamically, starting out (default) as off. Build a test bed of real world import Word docs, for regression testing. No publisher bnwest 2006-11-15T14:15+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/QML%20JavaScript Keeping Tony Brandt happy. No publisher bnwest 2006-11-14T18:05+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/lizzardg/IdeaBoard An idea about ways to edit images in an educational sort of way! No publisher lizzardg 2006-11-08T12:07+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/plonecon What I learned at the Plone conference that may be useful to other folks. No publisher jccooper 2006-10-30T13:23+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jenn/cals2html-eval Max has made extensive changes to our table rendering code so that it supports much more of the CALS table model. Unfortunately, turning on new features has consequences for some tables in our existing content. I've gone through to see how extensive the damage may be, and how much work we might have to do to bring existing tables "up to code". No publisher jenn 2006-10-26T16:34+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/lizzardg/blogentry.2006-10-10.8020286047 A few thoughts that came up while helping with the Mellon Report. They might not even make it to the Feature Request state, but I thought I'd share them anyway. No publisher lizzardg 2006-10-10T15:18+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/delicious Delicious, in fact. I've implemented some basic lensing using del.icio.us as the selector. No publisher jccooper 2006-10-06T17:32+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/expressCO This feature, packaged with recent changes to edit in place, allows quick checkout of modules from published page. Now functionally ready, needs UI review. No publisher jccooper 2006-09-19T18:22+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/Sept142006 I need advice for the text of the email notifications that RhaptosSubscriptionTool will send out No publisher kclarks 2006-09-14T13:06+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/planningUpdated Now with categories! No publisher jccooper 2006-09-13T19:04+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/api Lots of people are interested in integrating their stuff with CNX. Luckily, most of the tools to let them do it themselves already exist. No publisher jccooper 2006-09-13T18:09+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/reedstrm/ziddlywiki No publisher reedstrm 2006-09-06T23:48+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/reedstrm/tagging No publisher reedstrm 2006-08-31T16:12+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/lizzardg/devdoc Well, I was about to change it around again when I realized that I had just finished the third final draft of the outline. No publisher lizzardg 2006-08-25T12:51+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/nmueller/csg-rhaptos Here I want to provoke a discussion regarding coding styles in Rhaptos. E.g. (1) Shall we use TABs rather than Spaces for indentation (2) How should a proper function/method should look like regarding documentation (3) What about error handling? Should any if-statement be complete, i.e., should any if-statement comprise an else-statement (4) What about code line wrapping for a convenient reading etc... Just feel free to leave any comment here regarding my upcoming poor man's coding style guide for Rahptos. No publisher nmueller 2006-08-21T16:27+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/nmueller/InstallRhaptosIUB Experiences in installing a Rhaptos instance at IUB from scratch. No publisher nmueller 2006-08-20T12:00+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kochelek/blogentry.2006-08-17.6558569758 A pipeline for importing LaTeX content into CNX has been developed using Scientific Workplace. The requirements, procedure, errors, and expected outputs are explained herein. No publisher kochelek 2006-08-17T17:15+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/mhutch/labview/wrapup Some parting words of wisdom. No publisher mhutch 2006-08-11T11:54+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/sessionmanager Session Manager is awesome. Install it now! For great justice! No publisher jccooper 2006-08-03T16:49+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/naming We need a snappy name for the new subscription tool. No publisher jccooper 2006-07-31T15:09+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/rss-go I've enabled syndication on a trail basis. It's cool. No publisher jccooper 2006-07-31T11:59+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/sanca/stefan0725 Getting close to a fully functional MathSearch with highlighting... No publisher sanca 2006-07-25T18:08+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/maxwell/blogentry.2006-07-21.8674316048 Mock-ups for the new link No publisher maxwell 2006-07-21T17:35+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/mhutch/labview/nicontact2 Touched base with Erik & Jim. No publisher mhutch 2006-07-19T11:50+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/sanca/update0718 Latest development of the MathML search engine No publisher sanca 2006-07-18T16:01+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kochelek/blogentry.2006-07-18.4735980518 There now exists a (mildly cumbersome) pipeline for importing CSB's data into CNX with only minimal cleanup required. These are the details. No publisher kochelek 2006-07-18T15:31+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/mhutch/labview/nicontact1 Some pearls of wisdom and direction from Jim Cahow and Erik Luther. No publisher mhutch 2006-07-12T11:16+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/July122006 A quick attempt at instructions for how to do a "Rhaptos Site" install, so that Chuck has something to work from in Vietnam. Jenn added 4.5. Ross edited with abandon, since the original is archived in email. No publisher kclarks 2006-07-12T08:44+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/sanca/stefan0711 The fourth update on the status of the integration of MathSearch into Connexions No publisher sanca 2006-07-11T17:53+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/mhutch/labview/LVfiles A catalog of the LabView files contained on the CNX servers. No publisher mhutch 2006-07-11T10:54+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/mhutch/labview/projdef Goals for the LabView project for the summer, including some direction from Rich. No publisher mhutch 2006-07-06T16:58+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/July52006b No publisher kclarks 2006-07-06T13:17+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/July52006 The browse recent page is now live! No publisher kclarks 2006-07-05T18:05+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/sanca/stefan0705 Third update on the status of MathWeb Search No publisher sanca 2006-07-05T17:34+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kochelek/blogfolder.2006-06-14.8711513150/blogentry.2006-07-05.4434507525 Rough directions for importing LaTeX into CNX using Scientific Workplace, including predictable errors and workarounds/resolutions. No publisher kochelek 2006-07-05T15:58+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/mhutch/tex2cnx/lyx_tralics Issues that arise when converting .lyx files to CNXML through Tralics. May be helpful when writing a creating a .tex -> Tralics -> Conversion Script (w/ XSLT) -> CNXML pipeline. No publisher mhutch 2006-06-30T09:37+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/sanca/062606_update The second of the weekly progress updates... No publisher sanca 2006-06-28T10:04+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/coursePrintFixes01 This weekend I finished up several changes to the course printing system that considerably reduce the pain of creating course PDFs. No publisher cbearden 2006-06-26T09:22+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/dpesikan/blogentry.2006-06-25.0609433617 Fixed Python checker to output XPOINTERs, Type Checker for MathML modified to pipe, and changed the format of output (XPATHs). No publisher dpesikan 2006-06-25T18:25+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/sanca/MWS_Waki A list of things that need to be done to install the inherited Search Engine on our local machine. No publisher sanca 2006-06-23T20:03+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/maxwell/blogentry.2006-06-22.9156760962 Some mock-ups of ideas discussed in an early blog post No publisher maxwell 2006-06-22T13:59+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/June212006 I'm declaring the Recently revised page ready to be tested No publisher kclarks 2006-06-21T15:59+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kochelek/blogfolder.2006-06-14.8711513150/blogentry.2006-06-21.6071002211 No publisher kochelek 2006-06-21T14:27+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kochelek/blogfolder.2006-06-14.8711513150/blogentry.2006-06-20.7561623885 Issues seen in converting Pfeiffer content with LyX No publisher kochelek 2006-06-21T14:27+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kochelek/blogfolder.2006-06-14.8711513150/blogentry.2006-06-16.4176655315 No publisher kochelek 2006-06-21T14:27+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kochelek/blogfolder.2006-06-14.8711513150/blogentry.2006-06-14.1053136563 No publisher kochelek 2006-06-21T14:27+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/dpesikan/blogentry.2006-06-20.4823435217 Spell checker coding started!! No publisher dpesikan 2006-06-20T10:32+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/dpesikan/blogentry.2006-06-20.2282584298 Chat with Ross and Cameron, overall plan, Java code No publisher dpesikan 2006-06-20T09:55+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/sanca/Progress_06.19.2006 The first update of a series of weekly reports which will help me (and others) keep track of my work progress. No publisher sanca 2006-06-19T11:05+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/dpesikan/blogentry.2006-06-14.0967934545 Rares's bachelor thesis reread No publisher dpesikan 2006-06-14T11:41+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/trainingchecklist Now that I'm around full time, I'll have the chance to do some Plone training. But first, I need to figure out what exactly to present. Follows are some topics; please let me know what you're interested in. Also, anything that's not there. Some entries are separable, some are not. They are grouped vaguely by subject. No publisher jccooper 2006-06-13T17:32+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/devprocess Our solutions to the EIP situation will require the addition of a checkout-from-published feature (which has been requested anyway). I'm going to use that to test a new development process. No publisher jccooper 2006-06-13T17:11+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/eip-figure-branch What to do with eip-figure branch? No publisher bnwest 2006-06-13T17:06+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/PerInstanceXML Having a single, global XML installation (including XSLT and CSS) per host is too limiting. No publisher cbearden 2006-06-12T17:11+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/June82006 After a couple iterations of feedback, I have a new version of the browse recent page that is ready for review. No publisher kclarks 2006-06-08T16:50+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/workflowRedo We've redone the rhaptos.org workflow to fit our model better. The visible state now means "internally visible", like many thought it already did; also, the review step has been removed, and you can edit published content. No publisher jccooper 2006-06-08T15:43+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/email You may now email me at jccooper@rice.edu. No publisher jccooper 2006-06-08T12:25+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/May25 I've finished up a first draft of a page to browse recently published content. I would appreciate any feedback. No publisher kclarks 2006-05-25T14:54+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/lizzardg/blogentry.2006-05-09.6926308661 After cruising through the Bitflux Editor demo and doing a bit of reading, here are my thoughts on Bitflux as it could apply to Connexions. No publisher lizzardg 2006-05-09T13:19+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/AJAX%20DHTML%20JavaScript%20Toolkits AJAX/DHTML JavaScript Toolkits investigated!!! No publisher bnwest 2006-05-08T15:05+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/reedstrm/multilingual What do we need to do to support multiple languages more completely in Connexions? (I promised this entry to the team some time ago. Here it is for the record.) No publisher reedstrm 2006-04-20T12:00+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/nmueller/mml-parallel In this blog we will explain the preferences of MathML's parallel markup. No publisher nmueller 2006-04-18T05:09+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/maxwell/blogentry.2006-04-13.1441330999 Mock-ups for browsing content by language No publisher maxwell 2006-04-13T19:37+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/devsets Our development model (as it currently stands) puts development on branches. Branches exist only per-product, due to our SVN structure. This is fine if you only work on one product, but what if you need to make changes to two or four or more products? We now have a less-ad hoc way to capture this information than just telling Jenn. No publisher jccooper 2006-04-10T14:45+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/maxwell/blogentry.2006-04-04.7946517988 Browse by latest, again. (This time with tooltips.) No publisher maxwell 2006-04-04T20:09+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/manpreet/RiceHCI I presented Cnx.org and my plans for usability going forward to the Human Factors/Human Computer Interaction (HCI) group at Rice. This is their feedback. No publisher manpreet 2006-03-24T16:37+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/RhaptosI18n A few notes on starting to create translations of Rhaptos/Connexions site text. No publisher cbearden 2006-03-15T15:13+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/March7 I created a new Plone instance on my development machine to do functional testing of the role reordering No publisher kclarks 2006-03-07T15:51+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/reedstrm/plonishcommunitytools No publisher reedstrm 2006-02-28T14:20+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/February27 I have "finished" a new version of the Roles tab for content objects that will let you specify order of members. No publisher kclarks 2006-02-27T13:12+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/TEDInBlogs A quick round-up of blog entries about TED that mention Rich B and Connexions. No publisher cbearden 2006-02-24T13:36+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/February20 Discussion on what new design documents should contain. No publisher kclarks 2006-02-20T15:23+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/maxwell/blogentry.2006-02-16.7020062770 Preview the new logo in use on the site No publisher maxwell 2006-02-16T04:27+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/maxwell/blogentry.2006-02-13.0773550025 No publisher maxwell 2006-02-14T20:53+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/bnwest/Figures%20and%20Media%20in%20EiP Figures and Media in EiP No publisher bnwest 2006-02-13T14:38+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/ecassignment Just released for Plone: ECAssignmentBox No publisher jccooper 2006-02-13T14:36+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/transformsworking My transform work, which is mostly involved with Zip file import and export, is largely done and in the testing court now. No publisher jccooper 2006-02-13T14:23+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/transforms See new module transforms on sullivan. No publisher jccooper 2006-01-23T21:04+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/January23 A discussion of several different way to customize the look and feel of a Rhaptos/Plone Site. No publisher kclarks 2006-01-23T13:13+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/lizzardg/blogentry.2006-01-23.9891873882 What types of questions do remember from tests you've taken and homework you've done? No publisher lizzardg 2006-01-23T12:23+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/January20 Yesterday, the RhaptosCommunity Product and the member profiles went out on beta.cnx.rice.edu. No publisher kclarks 2006-01-20T12:16+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/guidointerview In this series of interviews, Guido (creator of Python) talks about its origins, design decisions, and other things. No publisher jccooper 2006-01-09T15:00+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/ljouanneau/rng_extensions_doc I have published a reference documentation on the RelaxNG extensions that you can use into your RelaxNG schema, for Etna. No publisher ljouanneau 2005-12-19T10:52+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/ljouanneau/etna_0.2.5_release Etna 0.2.5 is released. No publisher ljouanneau 2005-12-19T08:07+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/maxwell/blogentry.2005-12-12.9082778675 How CNXML documents will look in ETNA. No publisher maxwell 2005-12-12T15:39+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/December12 My experiences at the "Deep in the Heart of Sakai" Conference in Austin last week. No publisher kclarks 2005-12-12T13:36+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/reedstrm/latexml In which we attempt to document installation of LaTeXML onto a Debian system, with the assistance of Michael Kohlhase No publisher reedstrm 2005-12-08T14:47+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/mercedvisit A report on my visit to the Center for Computational Biology at UC Merced. No publisher cbearden 2005-12-07T15:46+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/ljouanneau/etna-0.2-release I released a version of Etna, a new wysiwyg Xml Editor. No publisher ljouanneau 2005-12-05T11:19+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/eip-help Max reminded me that we also need to generate the text of the element help for Edit-in-Place. A good idea, but it does further complicate the spec integration and generation process. No publisher cbearden 2005-11-15T15:11+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/cnxml_flavors CNMXL 0.6 (like 0.5) will have four variants, depending on whether or not MathML and QML are used. How to reflect this in the specification? No publisher cbearden 2005-11-15T15:11+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/schema_architecture In which I outline the design of the CNXML 0.6 schema and point out some implications for integrating the specification with it. No publisher cbearden 2005-11-15T15:10+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/specproduction An overview of the process I propose for generating the next CNXML specification from the Relax NG schema. No publisher cbearden 2005-11-10T15:47+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/mhusband/NCPEAUserGuides Created three new courses for use by the NCPEA group. No publisher mhusband 2005-11-04T11:40+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/cbearden/del.icio.us Last night, cuz I wanted to, I loaded links to the 100 most popular modules of all time (as of last night) into a dedicated del.icio.us account. No publisher cbearden 2005-10-31T15:00+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/brentmh/speedups I started this blog entry to talk about a couple of the recent performance improvements on Connexions . But it's taken an unexpected turn to include some thoughts on coding practice and the goal of simplicity. No publisher brentmh 2005-10-21T15:59+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/import We've grown imports for CNXML in an ad hoc fashion. For the last few days, I've been refactoring these into the CMF standard for data transforms. No publisher jccooper 2005-10-17T19:08+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/idioms This page on Python idioms should make you say "oh, neat!" at least once. No publisher jccooper 2005-10-17T18:42+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jenn/seleniumday Bottom line: about 15% of the total body of the test plans has been converted to Selenium. Woo hoo! No publisher jenn 2005-10-14T10:30+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/brentmh/xpathgrep I just checked in a useful script for searching through CNXML files via XPath patterns No publisher brentmh 2005-10-12T16:21+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/October6 This week and last week, I worked on cleaning up my RhaptosCommunity product. I fixed several bugs and made the edit pages more intuitive. No publisher kclarks 2005-10-06T14:45+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/brentmh/rhaptos-migration Instructions for migrating your development instance to the newly renamed rhaptos code No publisher brentmh 2005-09-28T10:54+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/kclarks/September26b