listing of images in the Interstate 91 database that are marked as Thetford, but that are actually in Fairlee.

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Wesley Wright

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 have a couple hundred images in the wrong town…list below.

I could of course fix these one by one but I am betting/hoping you know a better way.  If it helped, I could easily make them into a list by LS# in excel.

Ideas?

 

I WAS GIVEN SOMETHING WHICH LOOKED LIKE THIS

 

160 McCarty House, Second-Floor Hallway 1969 Thetford Orange Vermont State Archives and Records Administration LS49489_000
161 McCarty House, Second-Floor Room 1969 Thetford Orange Vermont State Archives and Records Administration LS49490_000

162 McCarty House, Living Room 1969 Thetford Orange Vermont State Archives and Records Administration LS49491_000
163 McCarty House, Kitchen 1969 Thetford Orange Vermont State Archives and Records Administration LS49492_000

164 McCarty House, Bathroom 1969 Thetford Orange Vermont State Archives and Records Administration LS49493_000
165 McCarty House, Boiler Room 1969 Thetford Orange Vermont State Archives and Records Administration LS49494_000

166 McCarty House, First-Floor Room 1969 Thetford Orange Vermont State Archives and Records Administration LS49495_000
167 McCarty House, Cellar 1969 Thetford Orange Vermont State Archives and Records Administration LS49496_000

 

I converted it to this:

update  images set TOWN=’Fairlee’ where ls in (“49489″,”49490″,”49491″,”49492″,”49493″,”49494″,”49495″,”49496″,”49497″,”49498″,”49499″,”49500″,”49501″,”49502″,”49503″,”49504″,”49505″,”49506″,”49507″,”49508″,”49509″,”49510″,”49511″,”49512″,”49513″,”49514″,”49521″,”49522″,”49523″,”49524″,”49525″,”49526″,”49527″,”49528″,”49529″,”49530″,”49531″,”49532″,”49533″,”49534″,”49535″,”49536″,”49537″,”49538″,”49539″,”49540″,”49558″,”49559″,”49560″,”49561″,”49562″,”49563″,”49564″,”49565″,”49566″,”49567″,”49568″,”49569″,”49570″,”49571″,”49572″,”49573″,”49574″,”49575″,”49576″,”49577″,”49578″,”49579″,”49580″,”49581″,”49582″,”49583″,”49584″,”49585″,”49586″,”49587″,”49588″,”49589″,”49590″,”49591″,”49592″,”49593″,”49594″,”49595″,”49596″,”49597″,”49620″,”49621″,”49622″,”49623″,”49624″,”49625″,”49628″,”49629″,”49630″,”49631″,”49632″,”49633″,”49634″,”49635″,”49636″,”49637″,”49638″,”49639″,”49640″,”49641″,”49642″,”49643″,”49644″,”49645″,”49646″,”49647″,”50296″,”50297″,”50298″,”50299″,”50300″,”50301″,”50302″,”50303″,”50304″,”50305″,”50306″,”50307″,”50308″,”50309″,”50310″,”50311″,”50318″,”50319″,”50320″,”50321″,”50322″,”50323″,”50324″,”50325″,”50326″,”50327″,”50328″,”50329″,”50330″,”50331″,”50332″,”50333″,”50334″,”50335″,”50336″,”50337″,”50338″,”50339″,”50340″,”50341″,”50342″,”50343″,”50344″,”50345″,”50346″,”50347″,”50348″,”50349″,”50350″,”50351″,”50352″,”50353″,”50354″,”51183″,”51184″,”51185″,”51186″,”51187”,”51189”)

 

To which Paul remarked, “You are AWESOME!”

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Ski Kids

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Wesley Wright

Ski ski ski

http://youtu.be/-zYzE2uPqes?list=UUk7fIjzgYNFYveo3kMr5NOA

ski some more

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Footprints reports

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Wesley Wright

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 fill in missing values..

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Events calendar updates

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Wesley Wright

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 requests for reports.

 

Also revisited the Events/ldap synchronization perl script. trying to make it go as a web script on ctl.w3.uvm.edu , but SELinux stands in the way

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Landscape change submit modern photo broken

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Wesley Wright

Recent code changes had unintended consequences. Fixed.

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BBB0.90ß

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Wesley Wright

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 the address sent to nginx. The LTI needs that to properly calculate the encrypted signature sent by the LMS. So I added the nginx $scheme (resolves to http or https) variable to the http headers sent to tomcat7. Magic happened. BBB developers may or may not incorporate it into 0.90beta Release Candidate

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BigBlueButton .90ßeta

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Wesley Wright
A week or so ago, CDE set up a demo of BB Collaborate conducted by somebody from www.elluminate.com . While waiting for the CDE people to get everything up and running, I browsed the BBB web site and low and behold, 0.9ßeta (up from .81) was just released. Hurrah!
Well, it was one ugly install. First needed to upgrade server from Ubuntu 10.04 to 14.04. I did do-release-upgrade to get from Umbuntu 10 to 12 and do-release-upgrade to get from 12 to 14. The 10->12 upgrade seemed to go without a hitch, but the 12->14 upgrade locked me out of the system because of nslcd (ldap integration) issues, needed ETS/SAA to reboot from console to bring it back to rescue mode and fix the logins.
Next, ‘apt-get install bigbluebutton’ told me I was already up2date. So I had to do ‘apt-get remove bigbluebutton’ and ‘apt-get remove bbb-*’ and ‘apt-get remove tomcat6-*’ before apt-get install bigbluebutton worked.  next I tried install bbb-lti but it complained that my shared secret was wrong. So then I reset IP address and secret word and then BBB would start to load then immediately kick me off. More random tinkering at it and was at last running the demos and the CTL front end.
But no Blackboard.
Thursday, I get an email from Fred Dixon, lead developer of BBB. I had been making noise in the BBB-dev forum about my inability to integrate BBB and BB using BBB 0.90ßeta . He wanted to chat with me over the phone. After an hour of screen sharing and trying this and that, he proclaimed if was all about http
The BBB FAQS
https://code.google.com/p/bigbluebutton/wiki/FAQ#Can_I_provide_secure_access_to_BigBlueButton
clearly state, “…the BigBlueButton developers make no representation of any security in BigBlueButton. We’ve not developed nor tested BigBlueButton with HTTPS, SSL or secure RTMP.”
I explained to Fred that 0.81 a) installed easier b) integrated easier, and c) DID support https . Moreover there were potential privacy issues with sending student info unencrypted and operability issues with trying to mix secure and insecure content on the same page, especially when using firefox.
He explained that between the updated Ubuntu linux server, switch from tomcat 6 to tomcat 7, and numerous other changes, there just has not been time nor inclination (he recited the FAQ) to develop/test using https
But he also said he was president of Blindside Networks http://blindsidenetworks.com/about-us/ , and as such, would be willing to enter an agreement to provide https compatibility, for an undisclosed fee.
Must say I’m concerned less with the encryption than the operability. It’s not necessarily a show stopper, but it is definitely less compelling than the older implimetation.
So where to go from here? Wait, and maybe the tides of change will produce an https compatible release? Surely we are not the only LTI users who need it. Download the (extensive) project code and hack away at it myself? Negotiate with Blindside?
Oh, bother.

 

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Mini programming projects

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Wesley Wright
  • Incorporated Event Calendar workshop attendance   data into users’ “Manage my Events” transcript section and into Admin ‘People’ data. We can now see and show all workshop registrations and which events were registered for but skipped, or just those that were attended.
  • Added a “Show this media manager folder as an alphabetical list” link to media manager. Example: https://www.uvm.edu/~waw/podcast_folder/folder.php

 

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Gund Publications Update

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Wesley Wright

On Aug 14, 2014, at 9:10 PM, Taylor Ricketts wrote:

We’ve gotten a lot of compliments on the Gund publications page.  The quick links are a hit.

But we’ve also gotten a lot of comments about how slow it is to load.  The full default list is especially worrying, since it’s the first look people get, and they frequently give up and navigate away before it even loads.  But the searches are slow as well.

Is there some way to speed it up?  Optimize the searching somehow?  Or store static versions of the whole list and each of the 4 quick searches, so that they are fast to load (and get updated whenever I update the database?).

Sure. I added a caching system. There were a few little hiccups along the way, but all seems to be in order now. Caching all searches, so popular ones ought to move faster, too, as well as leave a record of what people are looking for. Cached files expire after 7 days, so next time you regenerate the database, you need only be patient before the cache regenerates all on its own. Yes, I could make a “update cache” button, but that just adds one more step to keep track of. I could try to add code to the import process, but that gets complicated since the import code and the website code and cache files live on two different servers. It would also add Gund specific code to what is otherwise a generic utility. Yes, every 7 days or so, someone or something will visit the page, kick off a cache refresh, and will have to wait 5-10 seconds for a response, but  I’ll wager that the lucky button pressor more often than not will be a search robot and not a human.

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More Landscape updates

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Wesley Wright

Seems that the summarizer wasn’t sorting columns properly. Now it is. fixed issue where summaries defaulted to media whenever primary search was by town. replaced atrocious SQL in summary calculations

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