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• Elmer Masters 2:02 pm on March 26, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: Drupal ( 39 ), modules ( 8 ), webforms   

  
  Quick screenshot of the download part of the results section of a webform. Notice the options here. THis makes it a good choice for surveys too.

   

• Elmer Masters 1:29 pm on March 26, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: Drupal ( 39 ), modules ( 8 )   

  USing the Drupal Webform module to create an order form for the 2013-14 DVD. I had forgotten how well this module works. IT does what it says it does with a minuimum of fuss. If you need a simple form to get some info from vivsitors, you can’t beat it.

   

• Elmer Masters 11:08 pm on March 25, 2013 Permalink
  Tags: cases ( 3 ), eLangdell ( 31 ), legal education ( 3 )   

  Here’s what I’ve got so far: (note we don’t have all the cases, just most of them)

  • Property law – 1737 cases
  • Contracts – 2437 cases
  • Criminal law – 2281 cases
  • Constitutional law – 1471 cases
  • Criminal procedure – 929 cases
  • Civil procedure – 1300 cases
  • Torts – 1469 cases

  Working now on processing these to get the topics into teh metadata of the cases. Then feeding to Solr.

   

• 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.