Category Archives: Wes
Emails for recent event attendees
I was tasked to produce a list of unique email addresses of CTL event attendees for events held Spring 2013. Short answer: select distinct first_name,last_name,email from users left join enrollments on enrollments.user_id=users.id left join events on enrollments.event_id=events.id left join event_types … Continue reading
Omeka code hack
Omeka wasn’t allowing admins to alter banner image associated with some themes. Nor would it display the current banner image on the update theme page. I fixed both issues.
BBB Update
As promised, ETS has migrated the UVM installation of BigBlueButton to a more powerful server. We’re hoping this will alleviate some of the audio problems a few of us encountered. You can access the new server via the old address,http://bigbluebutton.uvm.edu/ . … Continue reading
Television display in Votey hallway
Tim Raymond asked me: We’ve been asked to periodically show some movies on our hallway display so it might be something like 30 minutes of the existing web pages, then show a 3 minute movie then another 30 minutes of … Continue reading
Marcia pleads: The people at the MHF are asking for a few changes to their website and since I’m not familiar with PHP, I wondered if you might be able to help me out or refer me to someone who … Continue reading
Apple Apps from AppStore Apparently unhAppy.
April 3, 2013. David Trautman was wrestling with one iMac in CMD that refused to download or update apps foolishly associated with my UVM AppleID. Needed to disassociate my ID and rather use a neutral CMD ID. Took some wrangling … Continue reading
Small Matterhorn Victory
After months of off and on effort, finally convinced Matterhorn to use UVM Web Single Sign-on http://weasel.uvm.edu:8080/welcome.html Now, what to do with it…
Enrollment Reports
On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Holly Parker <hbparker@uvm.edu> wrote: Is there a way to pull the emails for the 100+ enrollment prof. this semester ? I got the banner spreadsheet off the registrar page but no emails are provided … Continue reading
Landscape Change Backdoor
Paul asked: We (UVM Special Collections and I) are getting more and more requests for high res images from the LCP. Is there a way to give people like Prudence and Chris access to the high res images identified with … Continue reading
Musings on Mediasite
The most complete Mediasite pricing model I could find comes from Colorado: http://www.colorado.edu/oit/sites/default/files/sonicfoundry_mediasite.pdf One-time Server Software ranges in price from maybe $20000 (msrp) for 5 recorders to $100000 (discounted, msrp=$338,100) for 100 recorders One-time Classroom Appliances are $15,000-$25,000 apiece for … Continue reading