Today we took the opportunity to update some old code in the Conferences section. In terms of user experience there’s not much difference appart from a consolidated “topics” menu that is more helpful and complete. The main changes occurred in the backoffice.
Also while we prepare the next edition of the ASSYST/CSS Newsletter we updated the Complex Systems Conferences Map 2010 with new entries. Check it out!
We are on Twitter!
Twitter, is a microblogging service that is very popular. Assyst now is also in Twitter and you can follow us there. We’ll keep you updated on the latest news, conferences and videos.
We’ve been playing with jQuery for some things in the Portal. Today we Added a little bit of spicy jQuery stuff to the Conferences column.
This way we manage to squeeze both Open Calls and Next Events into the same space. And the beauty is that if the Website degrades as the user doesn’t have Javascript ON… it still works… Try it!
We finally added the RSS feed to the main site. This had been under testing for some time now, but only now we did manage to make it work.
The RSS feed is populated with the latest news from the Portal and the Digital Library will follow next. If you use Google Reader, Net News Wire or any other RSS aggregator you can now subscribe to the ASSYSTComplexity RSS Feed.
Today we did some minor updates in the site. Mainly things to improve performance, some tweaks, and stuff… but this implied that for moments (during the afternoon) the site was down.
If you happened to be visiting the site during those times, please accept our apologies. We’re working to make it a little better, step by step.
We were at ECCS recording some of the presentations! unfortunately it wasn’t possible to record all the tracks and all the sessions. we’re now editing the presentations and will soon upload them to the AssystComplexity Web portal.
We started publishing the Success Stories in Complexity in the Community Section of the ASSYST Portal. First story featured in the Portal is the case of Professor George Rzevski.
There was a bug in the Ical sub-application that made conferences shorter by 1 day! It is now fixed and everything should be working now.
We’ve been playing with the calendar of the conferences section at the AssystComplexity Portal and we created an iCalendar so yeu can subscribe to the iCalendar in your computers.
The address for the iCalendar is http://assystcomplexity.eu/short/assyst-conferences.ics and you can subscribe it with several programs like iCal, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Microsoft Entrourage or even in the Google Calendar Service.
See the list of software and services that can use iCalendar subscriptions.
Today we’ll be doing some maintenance in the website and because of that it might be down from time to time. Also because of that we changed the blog location (now at blog.assystcomplexity.eu) to an external server, to make it accessible even when the main server is down! We hope that the server will be down for a short time, but we promise to work hard to fix everything quickly.
13:32 - We’ve finished the updates! Everything should be running smoothly now. If anything is broken, please send us a message or leave a comment here.
