Tag Archives: Dokeos

Chamilo 1.8.7.1 is way faster than Dokeos 2.0

You might already know the new page speed test provided by Google, so I did a quick test with the current public campus, from Chamilo and Dokeos here are the results:

http://campus.chamilo.org

89/100

chamilo speed test

 

http://campus.dokeos.com

62/100

 

This is the explanation of the Page Speed Score :

The Page Speed Score indicates how much faster a page could be. A high score indicates little room for improvement, while a lower score indicates more room for improvement. The Page Speed Score does not measure the time it takes for a page to load.

Chamilo 1.8.7 Istanbul available for download

All the last week I spent my time killing some bugs before releasing the lastest stable version of Chamilo (ex Dokeos).
I’m really happy because I felt that there was a community from all over the world that were there: reporting bugs, sharing thoughts, sending patches. We had new friends that help us to bring you a software of quality.

I had a strange feeling that we are more “free” here in Chamilo. We bring a new experience for users and new features. We help teachers, students, universities in countries like France, Belgium, Peru, Chile, Uruguay. I’m really satisfied. I have also more experience (3 years) and I feel that I’m ready for more.

You can download here

You can also test in the demo page (Version 1.8.7 available soon)

Install Apache2 + PHP5 + MySQL + Eclipse+ PHPEclipse + Mercurial +SVN in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

This is sooo useful when you have a new laptop/PC is a must for every true developer…

# Instalando el servidor Apache version 2
sudo apt-get install apache2

# PHP5
sudo apt-get install php5

# Servidor MySQL
sudo apt-get install mysql-server-5.1

# Módulo de apache para mysql
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql

sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin  # opcional

sudo apt-get install mysql-query-browser  # opcional ( MYSQL query browser)

sudo apt-get install vim # an useful editor

sudo apt-get install meld # a freaking easy merge tool

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jre # yeah sun-java6-jre is  deprecated now in Lucid at least in the beta

sudo apt-get install mercurial # of course

Download Eclipse Ganymede not Galileo

http://www.eclipse.org/ganymede/

Note: There are some issues with Eclipse Galileo, when you trying to install  *obligatory* plugins like PHPEclipse, Mercurial or SVN, simply it does not work.

Add this plugins:

PHPEclipse

http://update.phpeclipse.net/update/stable/1.2.x/

Mercurial

http://www.vectrace.com/eclipse-update/

SVN

http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x

At least but no last do a :

hg clone https://chamilo.googlecode.com/hg/ chamilo

To get your last Installation of Chamilo 😉

And for turn an SVN/Mercurial project to a PHP project in order to have the inspect function feature edit your .project file and add this:

<buildSpec>
<buildCommand>
<name>net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.parserbuilder</name>
<arguments>
</arguments>
</buildCommand>
</buildSpec>
<natures>
<nature>net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.phpnature</nature>
</natures>

Here the short way for install the deb packages:

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-server-5.0 libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql phpmyadmin  mysql-query-browser vim meld openjdk-6-jre mercurial vim

If you have some issues with the openjdk6-jre installation you may try installing this version.

Dokeos 1.8.6 Alpha Released

The first release of the Alpha version of Dokeos 1.8.6.

You can download it here:
http://www.dokeos.com/download/dokeos-1.8.6-alpha.zip

Some *new*  features:

  • FCKEditor 2.6.4 SVN, build 21065 added
  • Added possibility to switch fill-in-the-blanks answers
  • New mp3 player
  • New audio recorder in learning path
  • Tests : In students results page, set the question comment in red when the student’s answer is wrong. Set in green when the answer id good
  • Tests: Added attempts limit
  • Allow ZIP export of assignments for teacher and tutor
  • Implemented options dropdown to show attachment file and repeated event in calendar

A podcast from Guatemala

My friend Gustavo Reyes posted a really nice podcast, talking about Dokeos Latinoamérica, Dokeos v2 and of course Dokeos 1.8.6

Guatemalan people

Quetzal Some news about mon sejour…

I like programming and I also like languages. I guess there is a relationship between learning a new programming language and speaking french, english, or whatever. Right now I’m writing in an AZERTY keyboard and I finally like it. I guess I like changing things.. learning new things even some little things. This is an evidence of how a trip can change the way you look about yourself and other people.

Here in Guatemala there is an special accent that I like. In fact I like all the other latinoamerican accents…

I will try to copy the differents words, expresions and that special accent that today I found nice. Maybe, I’m getting used to it.

Here some words that I found:

chapinas/chapines  = girls/guys from Guatemala

chilero = nice

traida = a sort of girlfriend

this post will growing soon….

I don’t want to put some mean word here 😀 btw the bird that we see above is the Quetzal the National bird and also the name of the currency here.

Guatemala bonita

After a long friday afternoon trying to get a Guatemalan VISA finally I got it at the last minute. Since I’m peruvian I need that in order to leave my country. I will stay there 1 week with an AZERTY laptop!

Coming soon FCKEditor 2.6.2 and Dokeos 1.8.6 working in Opera

Last week, I finally end with the upgrade of FCKeditor to version 2.6.2 in Dokeos. FCKeditor is the html editor use probably in all the interaction that a user have in Dokeos.

There were some difficulties with these upgrade since Dokeos use it in several tools: Learning Path, Documents, Survey, Exercises, and a long etc.

The BIG problem was to add, update or rewrite the javascript code (fckeditorcode_gecko.js and fckeditorcode_ie.js) that FCKeditor use. You can take a look, is a little bit messy but works. These javascript code was made like that in order to compress the file.

Here some updates:

  1. FCKeditor plugins added: FLVMediaPlayer, EmbedMovies, FlashPLayer and the MP3 player create specially for Dokeos.
  2. Finally, FCKeditor works with Opera.
  3. Creating and editing Flash documents works fine.
  4. No more popups! These version of FCKeditor works with DIVs.
  5. Is much faster than the old version.

I will update to the last version of FCKeditor 2.6.3 if that fix some problems.

There are also a discussion about the possible changes that the Document tool will have soon.

Yesterday the dev.dokeos.com was updated with these changes,

Here the SVN you can check it out.

Dokeos collaboration with the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

I found a video of an interview with Michel Taillet, CEO of the “European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology”. He speaks about the collaboration with Dokeos, ESTRO and Hanabi. The good thing (for me) is that this Thursday I have a french test (I love french). So I have to study and this video help me to spread the word avout Dokeos and to learn french!