- 01 Apr 2010 -

We held a training here in Indianapolis in February. Darius Jazayeri and I led the talks that walked through all development aspects of OpenMRS. You can see the agenda here: http://openmrs.org/wiki/OpenMRS_Developer_Training_Week_8-February-2010

Overall I was quite pleased with how the training went. There were more people involved that I expected: 40+ were in attendance physically at the Regenstrief building at some point during the week and another 10-15 that participated via the online web casts! One very positive outcome from the week was that Darius and I created a lot of wiki pages directly from the content we were talking about. This gave us a blueprint from which to talk while preserving the content for future users to see. I am still waiting to hear from Michael about the long-term availability of daily recordings.

I really see these types of trainings being a good long term revenue stream for OpenMRS. Obviously it won’t be able to be the only source, but if we had 3-4 trainings a year at various locations around the globe we would be able to hit a large number of developers. (Doing an implementer-centered training is a whole other matter) We learned a lot through this training: get the word out earlier, give out pre-training required reading, and write the entire week’s lesson plans prior to starting the training!

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- 26 Feb 2010 -

Andy sleeping in front of computer My wife gave birth to our first son on Saturday: Benjamin Andrew Wolfe. He was a very healthy 8 pounds and 21 inches long. He has been eating and sleeping very well. Sleep is at a premium in the Wolfe household and we take it whenever we can get it. Our daughter, Eden, is 14 months old, and does her best to keep us both up all day to play with her!

I’ve been attempting to keep up with email while at home, but Andy has been fighting me for computer time!

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This seems fairly simple in hindsight, but I had a difficult time finding an answer to it, so I putting it down here for posterity’s sake.


SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0

I put this as the first changeset in a liquibase xml file. This disables the foreign key and constraint checking in mysql. This would work for other db’s as well, but I haven’t looked up their syntax just yet.

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- 31 Jan 2010 -

After futile searches and a lot of old pages, I finally found a linux screencast tool: recordmydesktop.

Using the synaptic package manager, I installed recordmydesktop.  Eventually I discovered that this was not the gui part of the program and installed gtk-recordmydesktop.

I’ve been very happy with the results.

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- 23 Jan 2010 -

Kenya seems to loathe alarm clocks. Ubuntu’s clock screen saver is sub-par, so I wrote a quick javascript clock to open in my browser and display all night long.

nightclock.html

After opening the file in your favorite browser you can press F11 to hide all the toolbars.

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