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A Year Later
Actually, over a year since I last posted here. I guess I am not much of a blogger. Anyways, just checking in, I am not sure why, perhaps to lubricate those few rows in one of the thousands of mySql … Continue reading
Creating Wiki Book
I have access to this nice Duet PCS mike and also wanted to try Jing. So for this little test, I’ll tell a bit more about the Wiki Books, part of our UBC Wiki, as there seems to be a … Continue reading
WordPress Plugin Competition 2009 Winner is…
Godfrey’s section widget! When we were designing the first version, I knew this is too good to be true. And then Godfrey took it to the yet another level! Congratulations to Godfrey and others from OLT who worked on this … Continue reading
Wiki Books
Today, after thorough testing, we have enabled the wiki books extension on our UBC wiki server. In a nutshell, it compiles user-selected pages to user’s own collection that can be sorted, saved as a book, and printed to PDF. It … Continue reading
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about running large WP install
Just during last week, two well-known edublog spaces, Jim Groom’s UMW blogs and Alan Levine’s CodDogBlog (both WP-based) experienced serious hiccups and in case of UMW blogs serious downtime. There are many to blame, from mindless spammers to the mighty … Continue reading
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one, to bind them all…
Constant Gardener, from Flickr. Being the most flexible and open of all web spaces, wiki can quickly become a messy hotchpotch of various pages written in variety of tones, driven by different needs and intended for miscellaneous audiences. And that’s … Continue reading
section widget
It is not often that I feel completely pleased about the work that team I work with or myself have finished. There is always a bit of “well, this could be done better”, or “we should have…”. But after our … Continue reading
making sense of flickr video
Finally, flickr video makes sense to me. Great portrait that is accidentally an amazing video clip by Nikola T.:
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gimmie wiki!
Enej Bajgorić created the plugin for republishing MediaWiki (or any HTML) pages within WP. For those who liked the idea, here are some good news: we are continuing development of this plugin for our culturepedia project. Here is the functionality … Continue reading
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migrating a kiloblog: ubc goes from movabletype to wordpress
We have been running Movable Type for over three years and for number of reasons (far better platform, CWL integration, the support overhead and availability of plugins, to name a few) decided to move to WordPress. Since last summer we … Continue reading
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