Tag Archives: Boffins
Omeka updates
Upgraded omeka from version 1.5 => 2.0.3 , which essentially broke omeka. Why? Themes. Themes let one customize the layout of pages and exhibits. Themes are a collection of php script files that call omega API functions to display stuff. … Continue reading
New Landscape Server
Ben Coddington told me: We’ve had some loading lately when bots crawl /landscape. Looks like /landscape often opens its own files through the web server, which clogs things up. The worst requests are like these: /landscape/search/details.php?ls=55237&sequence=000&set_seq=3533&imageSet=1367046201-517b7839a64eb&AddRel= They make several self-requests … Continue reading
Big Blue Button roles and permissions
Some inconsistent and conflicting role based permissions in Drupal BBB module affecting some Faculty (most notably our own Director), causing inability to attend meetings. Fixed March 26. Reared its ugly head again early May for Nick Gingrow, UVM School of Business … Continue reading
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.
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
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