Category Archives: Technology

Eclipse Infocenter Help as Web App

By robert.sanders | Published: January 21, 2011
For all the effort that appears to have gone into allowing the Eclipse Help “Infocenter” to run as a deployed web application, the documentation is not great, and more importantly – why isn’t there a download thats “ready to go”?  This is something that’s bothered me for sometime now. For the impatient, you can skip [...]
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DITA Table of Contents

By robert.sanders | Published: September 30, 2010
Update: I still intend to publish the full code for this at some point soon, most likely via github, however I have gotten pulled away onto several other projects, and have not yet been able to get this into a version that I an satisfied with.  Additionally, I will need to move the code out [...]
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Milestone 27: CoSolvent Comunity Server

By robert.sanders | Published: August 17, 2010
The development team here at iPOV is pleased to announce the release of CoSolvent Community Server, Milestone 27. This release continues to improve stability and expand the feature set. The main changes in this release are: Improvements to Commenting, including the addition of “Sort by Video Timing” to sort the comments based on the time [...]
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Options for Embedding Video IN a Document File

By vic.uzumeri | Published: September 24, 2009
With companies effectively using video on websites, why would anyone be interested in the fairly challenging task of embedding video directly in Word and PDF documents? In general, there is little need to embed video directly inside of office documents. However, there are situations where embedding may be the best (or only) way to ensure [...]
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Why we need a ‘Work Networking’ Metaphor

By vic.uzumeri | Published: September 17, 2009
One of the profound joys of talking to experts is that they can ask that one question that bursts your bubble. I just had that experience with Tony Karrer – master of the eLearning Technology blog. I sent him some links to our CoSolvent Community Server, along with the blithe statement: “We are trying to [...]
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Drupal 6 Ajax Screenshot Gallery

By robert.sanders | Published: September 16, 2009
We recently wanted to put up a carousel-style image gallery of product screenshots in our Drupal based website. After a good bit of research, I wound up with several “solutions”, but none of them did quite what I wanted; luckily I hit upon a solution by a bit of good luck simply by noticing some [...]
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Flash development with open source tools

By joseph.gay | Published: September 14, 2009
A start to finish guide for setting up an Actionscript 3 development environment using open source tools that will work within the context of an agile process on Linux, or Windows.
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Zero Cost OJT for Software

By vic.uzumeri | Published: September 12, 2009
Can you do OJT with virtually no downtime? Can you train while people are completing revenue tasks? Can you train with minimal time demands on your skilled employees? If not, check out the ATEN CS228.
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Rich Media PDFs

By vic.uzumeri | Published: September 12, 2009
You've seen multimedia that you would love to use in corporate communication. Unfortunately, the corporate IT department is very security-conscious. They resist installing a new server or web application inside the firewall, and they forbid putting corporate information on outside hosts. They 'encourage' everyone use the company's secure document management system (.e.g., Lotus Notes or Microsoft Sharepoint) for all business communication. Is video out of the question?
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Modernizing the Knowledge Supply Chain

By vic.uzumeri | Published: September 12, 2009
I wrote a blog article a little while ago entitled 'Video Speaks Every Language'. I thought it made a useful point about the difficulty of transmitting technical knowledge across cultural and linguistic borders. However, the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I had seen this problem before. Then it hit me. Its just another supply chain.
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