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I have had a fitness tracker of some descript for many years. In fact I still have a stack of them. I used to think they were actually tracking stuff accurately. I compete with friends and we all have a good time. Lately though, I haven’t really seen the fitness benefits I would have expected […]

GradebookNG is now included in the recently released Sakai 11! If you want to use the Import From Site feature to migrate content from previous sites to new sites, you need to have GradebookNG in the previous site. You can do this in two ways: Add GradebookNG to the sites you are migrating FROM. You […]

GradebookNG is now included in the recently released Sakai 11! If you want to use the Import From Site feature to migrate content from previous sites to new sites, you need to have GradebookNG in the previous site. You can do this in two ways: Add GradebookNG to the sites you are migrating FROM. You […]

I’ve just finished building a new Vagrant box for Oracle 12c. This one uses only Vagrant and a shell script. Grab it from github: https://github.com/steveswinsburg/oracle12c-vagrant During the course of this install I came up against several issues ... [More] with the Oracle silent installer itself. There were files missing, an incomplete compilation of binaries (but Oracle reports […] [Less]

I’ve just finished building a new Vagrant box for Oracle 12c. This one uses only Vagrant and a shell script. Grab it from github: https://github.com/steveswinsburg/oracle12c-vagrant During the course of this install I came up against several issues ... [More] with the Oracle silent installer itself. There were files missing, an incomplete compilation of binaries (but Oracle reports […] [Less]

I discovered this feature by accident when setting up a new tool and configuring its registration file. The registration file is what you use to wire up a webapp in Sakai so that it can be added to sites. You can give it a title, description, tell it what site types are supported and a […]

I discovered this feature by accident when setting up a new tool and configuring its registration file. The registration file is what you use to wire up a webapp in Sakai so that it can be added to sites. You can give it a title, description, tell it what site types are supported and a […]

Sakai has recently switched over to using the MariaDB connector for MySQL databases, and a number of institutions are running MariaDB in production, so I thought I might as well change my dev machine over to MariaDB. To ease the transition, I whipped up a Vagrant box so I could run this in a VM […]

Sakai has recently switched over to using the MariaDB connector for MySQL databases, and a number of institutions are running MariaDB in production, so I thought I might as well change my dev machine over to MariaDB. To ease the transition, I whipped up a Vagrant box so I could run this in a VM […]

Ever needed an instance of MySQL to test something or develop against or just for fun but didn’t want to go through the hassle of installing etc? Clone this: https://github.com/steveswinsburg/mysql-vagrant Run this: vagrant up Done.