This is pretty cool. The SciQ project – which was one of the early adopters of CAREO (and now APOLLO), is sponsoring a contest to get students to talk about science.

The SciQ: Science Revealed – Talk About Science Contest is open to all Alberta students in grades 7, 8 and 9. If you know of any, spread the word… Free stuff!

It’s cool to see the organizations spending time and resources in an effort to foster the community aspect of these projects, instead of stopping at the public database stage. SciQ has been consistently great at this stuff (with live video broadcasts, interactive sessions with scientists, astronauts, etc…)

Deadline is October 15, 2004.

It appears as though the SciQ live broadcast event went off successfully. That’s cool. This is the first live, streaming event hosted through CAREO.

Just running stats on it now, but it looks like we had 190 simultaneous users, with about 1800 page views. Hopefully we’ll get some stats from Apple or Akamai about the number of video streams served.

I’m crunching the apache log from www.sciq.ca now to see who/what/where people were going. I’ll post more info later…

UPDATE: Here’s a link to the analog output run after the live event finished.

UPDATE 2: Here’s a screenshot of the WebObjects Monitor Application Detail View page at the end of the event (click for larger version).

UPDATE 3: Bandwidth report for the duration of the live event. Fun with stats…

Reworked the sliced-and-diced HTML for the SciQ theme in CAREO. Works much nicer now, and scales vertically when needed (without having the table layout puke all over the place).

Now that the basic HTML is in place, I need to write a generic WOComponent that can handle parameters from the URL to read Article text from the database (like the LC website does).

VERY rough version of this is available here (don’t send the link around – it’s likely going to be down quite a bit, and changing every now and then – I’ll send the public URL when it’s ready).

Spent the day converting the static photoshop files from IdeaMachine into actual working HTML and JPEG files. ImageReady is worth its weight in gold for this… Set up some guides, slices etc., clean them up, and cest fini.

I’m working with the ImageReady-generated html, massaging it for use as a theme in CAREO (specifically for PageTemplate, but there are quite a few lesser components which will be used – Sidebar, BreadCrumbsCAREO, SearchBar…)

It’s been a fun exercise in implementation of design, since there are always (ALWAYS) things that the designers neglect to think about when designing an interface that’s actually going to be implemented outside of photoshop (you know, like a web page, or anything else). The IdeaMachine guys were actually pretty good (waaay better than most), so there have been very few oversights. Whew…

Check out the in-progress html conversion here.