With the Shibboleth to Athens Gateway in production at UHI, using our Guanxi IdP, I’ve now got eBooks access working through the gateway too. (more…)

Now that I’ve plumbed Fedora skeletons into Sakai’s Content Hosting system, I’ve turned the focus onto Fedora, to build up a library of functionality that I can use in Sakai. (more…)

The lack of any documentation on the CHH system other than a paragraph and a page of possible implementation scenarios has slowed me down a bit. I’ve managed to deduce that uploading a specially formatted XML file as a resource and setting its mountpoint property, in “Edit details” to the Fedora CHH impl: (more…)

Spoke too soon. Or perhaps not. Seems I caught trunk with its knickers down, again. I waited a while then did an svn up on db and it built. Trying to start the damn thing was another mess though. A sudden requirement for a UTF-8 database has appeared, something to do with binary guff, so I blew away the old database and created a new one, UTF-8 enabled. That cured that problem and the rickety cart nudged forward a few feet, ’til the next problem. (more…)

Seems every post I write about Sakai is one of doom and gloom! That’s mainly because I work with trunk. In fact that’s all I work with, so it’s bound to be a bumpy ride. This time in the diary of a Sakai developer, I must note that my local install of Sakai trunk finally gave up the ghost. (more…)

I was reading Brian Taylor’s blog and came across this quote:

“…Without transparency and scrutiny, any system remains open to abuse by pressurised officials…” (more…)

Following on from my previous post about unit testing Sakai, I’ve managed to get a simple test up and running. Rest and time away from the keyboard are always a good bet for a solution to a new problem. (more…)

I’ve spent the entire day trying to figure out how to write unit tests for Sakai. There’s a test harness, which nothing seems to use as other components just cannibalise it and do it their own way. (more…)

I’ve put in place the last part of the GSK jigsaw, adding an AOP bridge between /portal-shibb and /portal. The problem was that a user, if they login to Sakai via the GSK, come in via the /portal-shibb route. However, when they logout, they leave via the /portal route. This means that the GSK portal doesn’t know they’ve logged out and their Pod is still active in the system. (more…)

Apparently an AI company now claims to be ready to go live in Second Life with an intelligent pet avatar. You hear all sorts of things coming out of the AI world but this must take the biscuit. (more…)