Tag Archives: Boffins

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

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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

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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

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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

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BigBlueButton .90ßeta

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 … Continue reading

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Gund Publications Update

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 … Continue reading

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More Landscape updates

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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Geology Landscape Change project exploded Chapter 6

I messed with it this week, rewrote some of the core code. Some much better SQL.   On Aug 19, 2014, at 7:00 AM, Paul Bierman wrote: Well, my 5 minute drive gave NO errors the searches come back fast…so … Continue reading

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Server hosting BigBlueButton exploded

On Aug 6, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Frank Swasey wrote: Wes, Yesterday morning /etc/cron.daily/apt applied a libc update to morpho. While that shouldn’t have caused a problem, it might have.  NetWorker is not working (it throws an invalid pointer error … Continue reading

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Geology Landscape Change project exploded Chapter 5

On Aug 1, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Jim Lawson wrote: The session data stored for this webapp is … large.  We’ve moved it out of the database and onto the local filesystem, which has helped the database a lot, but … Continue reading

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