http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:54:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/30/wpmu-buddypress-updates/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/30/wpmu-buddypress-updates/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:40:29 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1284 WPMu was just updated to a long awaited Version 2.7.1 which has, in turn, triggered events in the BuddyPress realm. The new WPMu version offers a number of important improvements making it a significant improvement. As a consequence, BuddyPress has finally been able to release Version 1.o. Upgrading from WPMu 2.7 to 2.7.1 was a [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/30/wpmu-buddypress-updates/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/20/ben-werdmuller-leaves-curverider/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/20/ben-werdmuller-leaves-curverider/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:48:52 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1280 Elgg co-founder Ben Werdmuller has left Curverider as of April 15.  On his blog he refers to Team Elgg positively calling them, “…a first-class team of brilliantly intelligent, creative peope.” When asked why he left Elgg, he replied, “I’ve got some other ideas I’d like to persue. Nothing sinister.” Ben intimates that he has some [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/20/ben-werdmuller-leaves-curverider/feed/ 7 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/22/elgg-15-includes-a-few-more-admin-features/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/22/elgg-15-includes-a-few-more-admin-features/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:40:58 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1263 One feature I didn’t see when testing beta Elgg 1.5 is the admin’s ability to set default widgets in both user profiles and dashboards. These tools, included in the Elgg 1.5 “full” package. Elgg adopters have asked for this feature since the initial release and there have been plugins that provided such functionality, but had [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/22/elgg-15-includes-a-few-more-admin-features/feed/ 8 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/09/curverider-releases-elgg-15-rc2/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/09/curverider-releases-elgg-15-rc2/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:28:44 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1225 Curverider released a second release candidate for Elgg 1.5 today. It can be downloaded as a tarball from their site, or you can get it from the subversion library. Release Candidate 2 brings about 40 new revisions to Elgg code since the release of the first Release Candidate last week. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fopenedweb.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F03%2F09%2Fcurverider-releases-elgg-15-rc2%2F'; addthis_title = [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/09/curverider-releases-elgg-15-rc2/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/05/elgg-15-rc-released/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/05/elgg-15-rc-released/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:57:33 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1222 A release candidate for Elgg 1.5 was unvealed by the Curverider team today. Release candidates have been tested and are generally very stable. Nonetheless, Curverider does not recommend its use for production sites. The core Elgg team has been working feverishly to squash remaining bugs and enhance Elgg’s performance. They have committed over 100 commits [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/05/elgg-15-rc-released/feed/ 6 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/22/more-elgg-15-tweaks/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/22/more-elgg-15-tweaks/#comments Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:34:49 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1184 Elgg 1.5 will bring a number of enhancements large and small that will improve usability for both users and admins. Here are a few more things to look forward to with its impending release. As Elgg  changed versions, many of the plugins have become incompatible. Developers have had to update them in order to make [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/22/more-elgg-15-tweaks/feed/ 10 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/21/elgg-15-notifications-external-pages-and-frontpage/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/21/elgg-15-notifications-external-pages-and-frontpage/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:04:11 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1174 The Curverider team continues to update Elgg at a furious pace with nearly 360 commits since early January. It appears Elgg 1.5 will arrive as promised this month. I’ve been watching the progress unfold with an SVN trunk installation (NOT recommended for production!). I have also been given a preview of Elgg 1.5. If I [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/21/elgg-15-notifications-external-pages-and-frontpage/feed/ 15 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/12/elgg-buddypress-groups/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/12/elgg-buddypress-groups/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:51:04 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1093 Elgg and BuddyPress are two free and open source social networking platforms. Both allow users to set up and configure groups. While the process of setting up groups and the results appear different, they have many similarities. Elgg puts all the group configuration options on one page. Of note, you may make the group membership [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/12/elgg-buddypress-groups/feed/ 6 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/08/elgg-devs-crack-open-door-on-wiki/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/08/elgg-devs-crack-open-door-on-wiki/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:03:14 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1087 I browsed to the Elgg documentation wiki today and discovered that they have begun to let individuals other than the four core developers contribute. Names other than Ben, Dave, Marcus, and Pete are appearing on the recent changes page. On the front page of the wiki, developers wrote: If you are using Elgg and would [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/08/elgg-devs-crack-open-door-on-wiki/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/23/elgg-15-appears-on-track-for-next-month/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/23/elgg-15-appears-on-track-for-next-month/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:56:56 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1044 Elgg 1.5 is slated for release next month. From the looks of things, it appears that they may well be on time. Curverider devs have made almost 100 revisions (at the time of this writing) to the SVN repository since the beginning of this month. Indeed, Marcus Povey, who seems to do much of the [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/23/elgg-15-appears-on-track-for-next-month/feed/ 10 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/22/elgg-and-buddypress-compared-new-user/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/22/elgg-and-buddypress-compared-new-user/#comments Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:57:37 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1006 While comparing software features is important, it is also essential to consider user experience. This post is going to focus on the new user experiences for Elgg and BuddyPress working through first look at the site, the registration process, and the resultant page once one has logged in for the first time. I gave an [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/22/elgg-and-buddypress-compared-new-user/feed/ 7 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/07/changes-in-elggs-support/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/07/changes-in-elggs-support/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:13:34 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=978 The Elgg support community’s access to content has gradually been restored after  large portions of the community site were closed or disabled apparently because of attacks on the core developers. The Elgg Google groups were unaffected other than becoming much busier. Around the turn of the year, developer Dave Tosh created a group with the [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/01/07/changes-in-elggs-support/feed/ 8