Hi Greg! On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Greg Smith (gregmsmi) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to Wad and Martin for uncovering the OS problem!
Yes - that's a pretty important thing. And leads into a second thing that is tricky - if you want Edublog to work on both infrastructures (Ceibal's school server and the standard XS) we need some coordination. Otherwise you'll end up with htings that work only on one. > 1 - Tarun gets the three main GUI pages proto-typed and posted for > comment. Focus on Apache + PHP then XML/RPC call from EduBlog to Blog > host. Don't worry about the DB right now. If you go down this path you are turning your back on my recommendations. I can't really help much, and it will be *much* harder to get it on the XS. You are doing some fantastic thinking on the product side of Edublog - perhaps you could get the programmers discussing the technical aspects on this list, with me directly? I am more than happy to mentor and help. > 3 - Greg will focus on getting in technical synch with Ceibal. We need to sort out the very tricky technical details of identity management on XS and the Ceibal school server. We can all discuss it via email with the Ceibal team, I would not want it to be mediated (in other words - don't try to mediate on technical matters unless you are the programmer writing the code! :-) ) > Re-proofing the customer need, lining up beta testers, and looking for > backup target customers. Yes yes and yes to all that. > Here are the 3 key milestones. ... > Purpose > - This will prove the concept of taking an Internet tool (blogger.com) > and making it usable by kids and manageable by teachers. It will also > show how to build a "web app" for deployment on the XS. And here you have your XS architect telling you: you don't write new web apps for the XS. To build a "web app" you add take something that exists, is secure, scalable, solid, maintainable, etc, and you extend it or tweak it. Want it *really* easy? Turn this plan into - install moodle (trivial!) - read through the code of the blog facility - add a "forward blog post" feature to moodle's blog (there, you are ready for early deployments) - simplify UI a bit (which we have to do anyway) - profit! the "forward blog post" feature, if well done, can get integrated upstream. And it's a simple thing - all the needed facilities are in place, at most we'll need an additional column in a table. One of the most common rookie programmer errors is to write your own thing. Easy to get started, impossible to reach the goals. Don't make this mistake - what we want here is to reach the goal. The "easy start" is only apparently easy. In any case, you still want to do it your way, well. I can't stop you, but my experience is that the end result is very unlikely to meet the requirements for inclusion on the XS :-/ cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel