Category Archives: Wes
BigBlueButton upgrades, tweaks
Installed yet another BBB build. Informed by firewall issues around Wowza server, had Network services fiddle with some settings to improve WebRTC audio. Continued working with kdbeard to solve off-campus issues. Dealt with disk full condition on server
STEM Camera Server
The camera purchased by Physics to track the STEM project, much like all Security Cameras, pumps out video as a multi-part JPEG (real old school) or RTSP (Real Time Streaming Protocol, almost as old), to which modern browsers say, “What?” … Continue reading
STEM Project camera
This started with an email from Luke Donforth This summer, construction will begin on the UVM’s new STEM complex. We’re interested in offering a live video-stream of the construction site on our webpage. We bought a Foscam F19805P and goe … Continue reading
Email friendly BigBlueButton URLs
Edited our homegrown BBB front end so that it accepts “Join This Meeting” URLs that can be pasted into email messages or web pages. Example https://www.uvm.edu/ctl/apps/bbb/?c=bbb&m=join&id=104&role=Join+as+attendee If referenced meeting not running, page refreshed every minute until meeting starts. ToDo: … Continue reading
Tina Escaja Velo City
She had a host of “hypertext poems” expressed as Flash applets. She needed them assembled and updated and deployed on her website. CSS, HTML, and php yielded http://www.uvm.edu/~tescaja/poemas/hyperpoemas/velocity.php
listing of images in the Interstate 91 database that are marked as Thetford, but that are actually in Fairlee.
On Nov 21, 2014, at 3:41 PM, Paul Bierman <paul.bierman@uvm.edu> wrote: Hi Wes, Trying to clean up lots of things now the semester is winding down… This one has been lingering for a while. Turns out from Interstate project we … Continue reading
Footprints reports
Nina has report data from Dr_is_In footprints project, but many fields (title, department, affiliation, college) missing. Needs a script that can parse non-blank fields and try to determine NetID or email address or first_name last_name to feed to ldap and … Continue reading
Events calendar updates
synchronized prod and dev code branches, discovered some discrepancies in how/where “organization” and college were stored, and now that I write this I remember I still need to fix ‘position’ (title) [update 2014-11-24 position update fixed]. All this driven by Nina’s … Continue reading
Landscape change submit modern photo broken
Recent code changes had unintended consequences. Fixed.
BBB0.90ß
Downloaded code, made local modifications, fixed the bob-lti. BBB uses nginx as a front-end proxy to tomcat7. Consequently, when the tomcat hosted LTI module attempt to access its own REQUEST head, it sees http://127.0.0.1:8080, the behind the proxy tomcat7 address, not … Continue reading