Misc

Optmize your Luminis page loads with smaller images, GZip, Browser Cache control and minified Javascript/CSS

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Here at the University of Ottawa, we did some calculations on the footprint of our Luminis page loads and we noticed that our average page load was just around 683KB with an empty cache (we've added a lot of new images, JavaScript and styles to Luminis). We did some calculations and we figured out that with an average of 4 page loads per minute under our max load of 10 000 concurrent users, we'd be pumping out just over 20GB of data per minute on the University network. Sufficed to say that scared us a little.

However, with a few tweaks here and there we were able to drop our average load to just around 250KB (that number should shrink even further with a few other tricks I have up my sleeve ;-) Here's what we did.

Classified ads in Luminis IV

I have been asked to look into ways of building a classified section for our Luminis IV environment. I am aware that there was a Classified channel that could be used in Luminis III, but I cannot find any information about using one in IV.

Classicdrag theme

I'm continuing to develop the classicdrag theme that I presented at Summit. I've gotten a lot of good feedback already so I'll be working into rolling new features/fixes in. Here comes the good news: Sungard came back and said that it was fine with me having it available to everyone without even needing a password. Once again, here's the URL:

http://www.lehigh.edu/~gas207/luminis.zip

Things I've changed in the zip as of today.

Changing the USERID - Groups

I was approached yesterday by a desktop support person to let me know that the President's assistant had a name change. Our luminis logins are first initial last name, so when someone changes their last name due to a marriage or otherwise, their network login changes.

Using RSS on the login Page.

Has anyone attempted to use RSS on the Login page? If so, can you recommend any best practices and/or "watch outs?"

I'm open to any suggestions, but as of now our best potential solution is utilizing www.simplepie.org.
It's a PHP utility that simplifies caching, customizing, and parsing RSS. Our only concern is getting PHP to run on our production box.

Thank you,
Joshua Anglero

Can't open Office 2007 files in Group Studio in IE

Within Group Studio, Internet Explorer treats Office 2007 files (they have the extra 'x' on the extension: docx, pptx, etc..) as if they are .zip files. I've uploaded both a Power Point presentation (pptx) and a few Word Documents (docx), but when you click on them to open/download, Internet Explorer changes the extension to a zip (ex: Luminis.docx to Luminis.zip). We have seen this issue with both IE 6 and 7. Firefox does not have any problems with these files.

Has anyone else noticed a problem with Office 2007 documents, or found a workaround for this issue?

Thanks

Using Luminis with Argos

We are looking to see if anyone is reporting from Liminis 4 using Argos. If so, what type of data are you able to report on?

problem with students forgetting passwords

Hello all,
Here is the issue that we are facing. i was wondering if anybody had already experienced this?

"Could not load cpipconnector.properties" Error??

Hi All

I kept seeing this error: "Could not load cpipconnector.properties" in $CP_ROOT/products/sso/logs/cpipconnector.log but cpipconnector.properties, citrix.properties and citrix.xml files are all in the sso/config directory.

What could cause this error????

We made changes on a working luminis CPIP link to citrix and now it is broke. We are having a hard time trying to get it to work. Thanks in Advance.

Alan
PCOM

CPIP Connector Problems

Hi All

I have to recreate another entry because after I put the changes in my citrix.properties, the previous link becomes unavailable.

Our school network team changed the destination URL of one of luminis CPIP link and we are having trouble getting it to work. Would someone help?? Thanks in advance!

We can see username and password are being passed to the new website in the log file.

Alan
PCOM

*we are running 3.3.3.64 in Windows 2000 OS. The previous link worked perfect before the network team changed the URL.

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