May 2011
1 post
AB Testing and stat analysis
We proceed in the past month to do some AB Testing to the main page of ASSYST and also took some time to look into the traffic statistics of the website. From the users navigation patters we found which where the most looked sections of ASSYST. Because of that we’ve now done a minor changes to the main page and navigation menus to help our users to find stuff faster.
January 2011
1 post
November 2010
1 post
Server Glitches
We had some server glitches this morning that required tech intervention. We hope everything will be back to normal soon.
October 2010
3 posts
Speed improvments
During the weekend we made a small overhaul to the assyst website, mainly focused in getting a more speedy website and also removing some bugs from the code that sneaked in when doing the fast sprint development cycles. The main speed gains are noticeable in the main webpage of assyst but other pages got speed improvements as well.
Citadyne - Videos of Conferences →
The videos of several interesting researchers very interested in Complex Systems and the multi-disciplinary approach of complexity, networks and geosimulations are presented online for download.
Found the solution of using a double box to track the keynote speaker and the slides a bit weak as you end up losing readability in the slides pane and the movement of the speaker distracts...
Several minor updates to the Website
Today we went through a small batch of updates to the Assyst Website. Mainly cosmetic things but also some things changed in the silently. One of the things is that we’re removing the java applets from the front page.
Can you spot the other differences?
September 2010
2 posts
Editing ECCS'10 Videos
With this year recording of almost all sessions we needed some sort of expedite protocol to edit and export the videos. For the Standard definition the process goes like this:
Use ffmpeg to convert clip to DV-Pal
Import clip into Final Cut Pro
Set clip to Anamorphic format
Prepare timeline(TL) with: INTRO-CLIP-OUTRO
Edit Clips’ audio in Izotope RX to correct
Noise
Clicks
Hum
...
April 2010
2 posts
Small Twitter Button
Following a series of “small” improvements we added a small twitter button to the right of the website. This means that you can easily follow us in the most popular microblogging platform on the Web.
ASSYT portal small layout changes
Today we rolled out some small changes in the main page of the assyst complexity website. The changes are very small but allow for a more fluid reading, with a better structured information.
We hope to improve it in the near future with new features. In the meanwhile can you spot the changes?
March 2010
2 posts
ASSYST+Partners News in Your Website
If you want to put the ASSYST+Partners news in your website like in the Box bellow, you now can.
Just copy the script from the textarea below to your HTML code where you want it to appear and thats it. ASSYST and IT’s partners will update their feeds and you’ll have your news updated automatically in your website.
February 2010
1 post
Several Updates
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...
January 2010
1 post
We are on Twitter
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.
October 2009
3 posts
jQuery in Conferences
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!
ASSYSTComplexity RSS Feed →
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.
Lot's of small updates
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.
September 2009
3 posts
Success Stories
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.
Bug in Ical
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.
May 2009
5 posts
Conferences in your Calendar manager.
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...
Web Portal Maintenance
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.
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WE DO SEARCH
We just deployed a search functionality in the Portal. It allows for quick access to the news and conferences results and we will be extending this in the near future to the community and the digital library sections as soon as we roll out those features.
You can use it in the front page entering your queries in the right form. Also you can access directly at assystcomplexity.eu
NEW DYNAMIC LOGO
We just launched a new version of the portal with a Logo that is radically different from the previous one. The previous couldn’t be used as Assyst doesn’t have the copyright of some graphical elements present and so we started creating a new one.
The idea behind this logo is that it is dynamic. The L-system isn’t always equal. I imagine that it conveys some sense of dynamics...
THE LORENZ RAINMAKERS
We are starting this complex system… and we’ve decided that the Blog should be something informal, something to give out the behind the scenes of the portal development. With little pieces of how things were done, our mistakes, and also our small vitories.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we do making it happen.