Web Dev 2.0
Cloud based storage and calendaring functions are up and running.
- Log-in and password
- When you reset your password using this link, you will be reseting your password for all aspects of the web site: authoring, cloud, calendar, and wikis. If you have trouble, try a password with at least 8 characters and make it more complex than just letters.
- After you’ve logged into wordpress, the cloud and wiki services will still require that you login there with the same username and password. These are different software systems (not wordpress) and so we can’t overcome that requirement (yet).
- If you do not have instructions on how to login to the system for the first time, please send me an e-mail.
- ownCloud
- This is a open source ‘dropbox’. Its not as smooth as dropbox, but its free, gets cooler and better as time goes by, and we can expand the storage as we wish.
- The most important use is for archiving large data – images, presentations, video that will benefit the whole group. Upon login everyone will see a folder called NRG where such resources should be place. Everyone in the NRG group has editing authority in this folder, so work responsibly.
- The cloud should be backed-up to yet another cloud (we’ll stop there). I’ll hope to have that done by the end of the week.
- There is a ownCloud client here that will allow you to sync between your computer and ownCloud – precisely like dropbox. Files can be placed on the cloud through this client or by drag and drop from your computer into a browser. The client too is a bit awkward and slightly buggy compared to what you are used to with Dropbox, but it works.
- ownCloud does not allow you to drag and drop folders from your computer, only files. Furthermore it doesn’t tell you there is an error, it just spins without end. The client, however does a perfect job of cloning what is on your hard drive onto the cloud – including folders/directories. So the best way to move a chunk of data to the cloud is to use the client to sync and then remove the sync.
- Calendar
- There is now a NRG calendar that integrates nicely with wordpress. Everyone in the NRG should have access to edit. Subscriptions and feeds appear to work. Event categories can be set up to create sub-calendars.
- Site speed and caching
- All the pages on the site are being cached continuously to help with server speed. We began this over the weekend and I for one saw a big bump in speed.