So something I’ve always really wanted Sakai to do for me is allow me to link directly to a specific item within a tool, deep-link into a wiki page, or individual test or assignment (ideally with nice RESTful URLs, but I’d settle for being able to do it at all).
Yuji posted a note on sakai-dev [...]
Soo… yesterday I completed my 2.3.1 Sakai vendor branch merge, and it’s now up on a Rutgers test server. It’s been sanity tested, and is ready for further banging. Speaking of banging… it did take quite a few steps to get to this stage…
Note: 2.3.1 is a small merge, I think it was only about [...]
So… working on doing a relatively small SVN vendor branch upgrade, and so far finding things much more difficult than it seems like they should be.
Problem 1: This was my fault — I checked in a vendor drop using svn_load_dirs.pl which had different line endings from my existing SVN tree. Of course, that resulted in [...]
Chuck is talking a bit more about his experience with portlets, and the implications for uPortal, Sakai, etc.
Sakai portlet notes: * Preferences - site.upd to change * Edit Mode - site.upd again * isUserInRole() mapped to Sakai permissions site.upd, content.read, etc.
The isUserInRole() mapping seems a little counter-intuitive — seems like really portlet.xml should be mapped to a particular [...]
Using Sakai in multiple institutional research settings - AERS
Case Study: Adult Literacy - used resources for file storage and as a documentation store, and diary entries stored as discussion entries. Teams liked the ability to contribute entries/discussions asynchronously, and despite being in many separate locations. Site Stats showed that most visits were content reads (~75%) [...]
Jeshua Pacifici talked a bit about his experiences migrating from Blackboard to Sakai. Very broad detail focused, less information on the technical and detail sides of migrations (e.g. how to get Courses/Projects out of Blackboard). High level overview of some benefits, caveats, and others.
Indiana has built a database structure that has triggers (in Oracle) to copy changes to db tables into backup schemas (per table/schema). This allows them to recover deleted, or other data, by retrieving it and copying it back into the appropriate table. Resources on the file system are handled via snapshots (on a NetApp?)
Some caveats [...]
Chuck Sev. is doing a demo of some of the new features that have been ported into Charon Portal in trunk. Additional hooks in Ian’s new portal Impl support multiple Velocity
Features
Hierarchy - sub sites, NO INHERITED AUTHORIZATION, velocity templated Single Tool View - edit Page order, and the toolbar/nav disappears so that you’re focused on only [...]
Ian’s talking about plug-able back-end implementations for ContentHosting and the Resources tool. Looks like a VFS type layer that should support adding arbitrary backing stores - the example he gave was DSpace, but people are talking about other stores like AFS, iTunes, etc.
One of the comments that’s come up during the discussion is how do [...]
Caught the last half of U-Camp at Sakai — mostly a presentation on RSF, from a designer’s perspective. There are pieces of RSF that do look attractive — plain (X)HTML templates, Spring integration, etc. I still wonder if the world needs yet another component framework — especially one that’s essentially proprietary to Sakai/Higher Education. Tapestry? [...]
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