Posted by: jayshao on: August 31, 2007
Had a request today for how to get permalinks in Sakai. Since most of the portal generated URLs (at least down to the tool level) are already permalinks, answering the request was easy — but I wonder if this indicates that we need a Google Maps style permalink icon in the UI somewhere. Something that [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: August 1, 2007
So something I’ve always really wanted Sakai to do for me is allow me to link directly to a specific item within a tool, deep-link into a wiki page, or individual test or assignment (ideally with nice RESTful URLs, but I’d settle for being able to do it at all).
Yuji posted a note on `sakai-dev` [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: June 11, 2007
Caught the last half of U-Camp at Sakai — mostly a presentation on RSF, from a designer’s perspective. There are pieces of RSF that do look attractive — plain (X)HTML templates, Spring integration, etc. I still wonder if the world needs yet another component framework — especially one that’s essentially proprietary to Sakai/Higher Education. Tapestry? [...]
Posted by: jayshao on: May 11, 2007
Sakai User Support Issues – Colin from the FLUID project is working to compile a list of outstanding UI/UE issues with Sakai, to target as FLUID gears itself up. Interesting list, though there’s a big project up ahead. Emerging themes seem to deal a lot with consistency and integration — not surprising considering Sakai’s architectural [...]
Dominos Gets Actionable Intelligence
Posted by: jayshao on: March 14, 2008
So I was ordering a pizza today from Dominos (been a while, but being car-less around lunch tends to limit options) and noticed that they have just about the coolest web feedback system for an order I’ve seen:
So, not only can I see an estimated delivery time, but if I leave the browser open (which [...]