Looks like GWT doesn’t work on OS X 10.5

Sakai, meet Fedora. Fedora, meet Sakai: (more…)

I was browsing through links to blogs the other day and came across Janey Clarey’s blog, with this interesting post. The content was very interesting but even more so, the soundtrack on the second movie is superb! I must find out who it is and get the sheet music. Best soundtrack I’ve heard in ages.

Scott Wilson has blogged about OpenID in education while at the same time the Guardian has published an article about the resistance of students to institutional invasion of their private lives. The two scenarios are mutually exclusive.

“Here you are, student, a space we have given you in Facebook. You can use your new institutional OpenID identity to login”. “No thanks, I already have a Facebook account”.

“Here you are, student, you can now login to your own, private Facebook account using your institutional identity”. “No thanks. I have two lives. Institutional and private”. (more…)

I’ve now managed to properly wire up Sakai with Fedora at the SSL level, using the Guanxi SSL Layer which probes for certificates. So I don’t have to worry about exporting and importing certs into truststores. However, there is a caveat. Sakai trunk is once again broken. Is it ever not broken? and the build doesn’t copy the contents of pack/src/webapp/WEB-INF/fedora, which contains the truststore. Worry about that another day though. (more…)

I upgraded to Leopard on the laptop, got all my apps back, built and installed Fedora, checked out the CTREP tests, ran them and got this error:

java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta character ‘*’ near index 0
*.local (more…)

Just to remind me: (more…)

I’ve been playing around with Zoto and Facebook, using Zoto’s XML-RPC service. They give a Python example on the developers’ page but I couldn’t get it to work, so I dug out some old Java XML-RPC code I had and tried that instead. It worked just fine. Then I had an idea. I did a quick Google, in fact I did 4 googles: (more…)