Reservation system – Use cck_validation, date, calendar, & workflow_ng to create a system that allows for reserving rooms or other resources. The above link has php code for checking for time conflicts. Use the very latest 5.x dev releases of…
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Drupal patches
Here are a few minor additions contributed to drupal the past week to get our drupal site working the way we want. We are running it on an OS X server, which isn’t always the best idea, but we found…
Posted in drupal, opensource
Real names instead of usernames in Drupal
One issue we’ve run across using drupal for our website is that it assumes you are creating a community of anonymous/pseudonymous users. Drupal doesn’t have built-in support for a ‘display name’ or ‘full name’ or ‘real name’ (like “John Smith”)…
Posted in drupal, opensource
Open High School of Utah
Congratulations to David Wiley and my other colleagues here at Utah State University on getting approval to start a new virtual high school, the Open High School of Utah, which will solely employ openly licensed educational resources. See the announcement…
Tweaking Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron
The latest version of the Ubuntu operating system was released today: 8.04, or “Hardy Heron.” See this review of the new features. You can download it here using a bitorrent client, or try it out inside Windows without having to…
Posted in opensource, technology
Recent Sightings
These are from my bookmarks on del.icio.us: Software / Technology Quick-R is a help site for those using the R statistics tool instead of SPSS/SAS. Hippocampus is a homework and study help site with multimedia resources and course materials. Road…
Second Life Server Not Going to Be Open Sourced "Any Time Soon"
This is a bombshell to me, although it wasn’t covered as such in this story on Second Life. The Second Life servers are basically not going to be open sourced, at least not anytime in the near future. Last year…
Getting Off the Ground with Drupal: Part 1
Here are just some notes and tips for folks looking to try out Drupal and get past the first steps of installing and configuring the software. What is Drupal? Drupal is a free, open source php-based content management system. See…
Learning Sciences – Open Education Scorecard
Building off an earlier post about the upcoming Open Learning Interplay Symposium between folks in the learning sciences and open education communities, here is a table that lists a lot of educational software and curriculum that has been created by…
How to Change Font Color and Alignment on Wikispaces
(or, an example of why open source and free is better than just free) Copied from these instructions: Centering Text Open up a graphic program (Paint, Photoshop, etc.). Select the size of the canvas you’d like to have, if avaliable.…
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