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• Elmer Masters 10:29 pm on March 25, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: casebook, cases ( 3 ), eLangdell ( 31 ), legal education ( 3 )   

  Back into cases. I have a spreadsheet that assigns a CALI Topic(s) (Torts, Property, Civ Pro, Contracts, Crim Law, Crim Pro) to each of several thousand cases. The high level topic selection is based on common knowledge and use in legal education.
  Next trick is take the spreadsheet, get it into a db and match the topics to existing cases (in HTML already) and then generate lists of cases by CALI Topic.

   

• Elmer Masters 3:17 pm on March 18, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: Do.com, project management   

  Notes on using Do.com

  • Everyone should set default group to CALI. This is important for things like using the widget from the Gmail web client and sending email to the system
  • It seems like the widget is not seeing the projects on Do.com. This can lead to errors like duplicate projects. I need to look into this.
  • Looking into doing something like forwarding webmaster email to Do as a way to provide some tracking on things.
   

• Elmer Masters 11:09 pm on January 16, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: 10KCB, cases ( 3 ), parsing   

  With basics set for parsing the 10KCB cases, I’ll be spending some time digging through log files ot see where the parser is broken.

   

• Elmer Masters 9:06 pm on January 16, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: eLangdell ( 31 )   

  Back to case processing. First some notes about where I appear to be.

  • Start in Dropbox/Projects/10KCasebook
  • adopting FC stuff from PRO
  • For state cases, getting cites, parties right. Still issues with courts, docket numbers, dates
  • For Fed cases, getting it all right
   

• Elmer Masters 9:00 pm on January 14, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: Classcaster ( 41 ), Firefix, plugin ( 11 )   

  Looking for a new audio plugin to use with Classcaster. A big hurdle seems to be that in Firefox flash blocking add-ons break some of the plugins.

   

• Elmer Masters 10:00 pm on January 9, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: A2J Author ( 10 ), Drupal ( 39 )   

  Got the A2J stuff done. Now on account creation first and last name info is pulled from Drupal into A2J.

   

• Elmer Masters 7:57 pm on January 9, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: Drupal ( 39 ), mysql ( 6 )   

  Learned about GROUP_CONCAT() in mysql. Seems like it could be useful for pulling together multiple values of the same fields, rows in a single table. See Drupal’s profiel_values for an example. The SEPARATOR option is useful.

   

• Elmer Masters 7:07 pm on January 9, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: A2J Author ( 10 ), Drupal ( 39 )   

  Into some A2J stuff this afternoon. Building names from Drupal profile fields.

   

• Elmer Masters 8:19 pm on December 31, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: Drupal ( 39 ), ECR ( 12 ), eLangdell ( 31 ), Wordpress ( 31 )   

  Moved the eLangdell bookstore and the forthcoming eLangdell Course Resources sites to new homes. Same URLs, just more spacious servers.

   

• Elmer Masters 3:36 pm on December 31, 2012 Permalink
  Tags: Drupal ( 39 ), sys admin, Wordpress ( 31 )   

  Doing some sys admin housekeeping this AM. Silently moving things around on the backend to hopefully increase performance on the front end.