Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library Calendar control is a very useful item for any dynamic web application requiring users to input dates–for example, when scheduling bill payments, searching for plane flights, booking hotel accommodations, and so on. The YUI control is particularly nice because it is programmatically rich and yet easily customizable.
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Tags: calendar, calendargroup, control, custom control, date range, interval, yahoo, yahoo calendar, yui, yui calendar, yui calendargroup
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
Recently I had the opportunity to install Moodle—a PHP-driven, open source course management system for online learning—on one of our enterprise class servers running Sun Solaris 10 and Sun Java System Web Server 7.0. While there were a number of packages available to simplify the installations of some versions of PHP and Moodle, I needed to install Moodle 1.9, for which there were not suitable packages readily available. In this entry I document the steps I took to perform manual installations of both pieces of software, as well as some of the technical issues I ran into along the way.
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Tags: java, moodle, mysql, php, server, solaris, sun, web
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