Connexions Tech Blog

Roll out the roles! - 2006-04-04

We've revamped the roles and collaboration system interfaces, changed how derived works are credited, and added a feature or two.

Zip import/export rolled out - 2006-03-13

Today we rolled out a long awaited feature: Zip archive file exports and imports of modules.

Author Profiles and EIP tables - 2006-02-07

Today we rolled out two new features: Author Profiles and a table editor widget inside Edit-In-Place, as well as a bugfix for problems with multiple answers, and several styling fixes.

Printing and Edit-In-Place Fixes - 2005-12-05

We rolled out some miscellaneous fixes to the server today

Member searching gets speed boost - 2005-09-21

With close to 5000 registered people, our member search had gotten slow to the point of unusable. Last Thursday we released some speed improvements that make finding your fellow Connexions authors much nicer.

New, Easier Ways to Edit Connexions Modules - 2005-09-02

Just in time for the Fall 2005 semester, we've released our new Microsoft Word importer and Edit-In-Place feature making it much easier to create and edit Connexions modules.

Connexions goes live with Plone2 - 2005-03-31

We managed to move to Plone2 before Plone2.1 came out so I think that's a bit of an accomplishment.

Module discussion forums - 2005-02-10

We've always envisioned Connexions as a community site, but to date we've primarily focused on tools for content editing. It's been a while since our last community feature, but another one appears this week: the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunity (OSLO) Group at Utah State University is collaborating with us to provide discussion forums on every module.

Support for MathPlayer v1 discontinued - 2005-01-24

Design Science's MathPlayer 2 plugin has been out for some time now, so we've stopped supporting MathPlayer 1. If you have MathPlayer 1, please upgrade.

...and the changes you can't - 2004-11-16

Behind the face of the new look lies a completely re-implemented similarity engine. If you're interested in technical details, and an insight into how these things came about, read on.

The changes you can see... - 2004-11-01

Since this summer we've been tossing around ideas for a new look and feel for Connexions. We haven't redone the whole site yet, but we did just roll out a new look for the content in the repository.

We'll have a server of fun - 2004-08-26

Back in early August we had the first Connexions bugday (Yes, I meant to write about then while we were fixing bugs. Instead I'm writing about about it now, after the fixes have been cut over to the live server.) About 45 different bugfixes/featurelets were committed which, along with some code refactoring, are now live on our site.

Roll out the server... - 2004-08-26

It's been almost a week now since we rolled out some changes to the site. Now that the dust has settled a bit, I can announce what we did. Most of the changes were pretty small cosmetic-type bugs and the rest were mainly user-invisible backend changes so you'll probably never notice them unless you read about them in a blog entry.

Support for Communities - 2004-06-20

On Friday we added two new community features to our front page:

Better Unicode support! - 2004-06-17

Unicode characters are now allowed in content titles and metadata.

Blog updates - 2004-06-07

I've turned on RSS syndication for the Tech Blog so you can now subscribe and get daily updates

Speed-ups for Workgroup Members tab - 2004-06-04

After trying several approaches, I fell back to the basics...

Small caching improvements - 2004-05-31

 

cnx.rice.edu upgraded to Zope 2.7 - 2004-05-28

After much preparation we're finally running Zope 2.7

Start at the beginning - 2004-05-21

A new Connexions feature: you're reading it.

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