Archive for February, 2005

I just started playing around with ELGG - an open source multi-user weblog package. It also claims to do some e-portfolio stuff. It's a really nice app. LDAP is a required feature. It can be deployed on any server you want. Templates are customizable on a per-blog basis (with selection of templates from a... »

Toboggan Boy Originally uploaded by dnorman. Trying the Flickr Blog This feature... Hey. that worked pretty well! Easy peasy. Some more-complicated-than-necessary HTML in the new post, but that's not fatal. Cool. »

I've just finished installing the Kubrick template for both Drupal and MovableType. The template does a decent job of hiding the complexity inherent in these systems, and looks relatively pretty, too. In my mind, it's back to a dead-even horse race. The biggest drawback of Drupal was the complexity - too many widgets on the... »

This was Evan last Monday at Kananaskis Village. He loves climbing, and loved toboganning down the side of Mount Kidd even more. I only posted this to test out the Photon iPhoto plugin. It works, but seems a bit rough with what it does to the new post. Had to come in and clean a... »

I've been playing around with MovableType to test it out for a potential weblogs@ucalgary rollout. It's really quite nice. I've used MT 2.x before (and it's still running on our main commons.ucalgary.ca webserver), but 3.15 is a nice and polished package. I can't seem to get it to recognize my NetPBM installation to... »

I had to write a utility for the Mavericks project to allow me to import asset descriptions that were exported from ContentDM via a tweaked XML format, into a MySQL database for use in Pachyderm authoring. I was going to write a simple python or php script to do it, but realized just how... »

King announced yesterday that he has accepted a position at a company in downtown Calgary. Congratulations, King! You're going to enjoy it. Projects in the Real World are different than University projects in so many ways, and I know King will do well in that environment. Which leaves me trying to figure out how to... »

Well... I guess the writing's on the wall... Leon Tightlips is about to take over the blogosphere. It was fun while it lasted. I, for one, welcome our new Lightship overlord... Now, if only Leon Tightfist could have easier-to-type URLs. He might get linked to more often... Oh, yeah, and maybe if he had some... »

I just started a wiki page to store information about the candidates for institutional weblog platforms. If you know anything about the candidates (or if there are some other real contenders that I've missed) please feel free to contribute! MultiUserWeblogComparison »

UPDATE: Since there seeems to be some serious interest in this topic, I've started a wiki page to compare the packages. I'm starting to toss some more ideas around for a proposal to kickstart a weblogs@ucalgary.ca project. Ideally, the system would be able to integrate via LDAP to the university's authentication system, so people wouldn't... »