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From eLearning to eUniversity
This paper analyses the specifics and the tendencies in building the knowledge society as well as the role of the universities in this process. Some European policies and programs dedicated to the new role of the universities in realizing the Lisbon Strategy are analysed as well. It is emphasized on the importance of integration of the knowledge triangle (education, research and innovation) into a research university and on the urgent need to re-design the university activities according to
Some Methodological Aspects of the Development of an ICT Research and Technology
Development and Inn
The aim of this paper is to share the experience gained at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI), Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski (SU), in the up to now work within the scope of a project funded by the Capacities Specific Programme of FP7. At the first call for proposals of this Programme in 2007 the EC provided a grant to the project SISTER of SU, aimed at strengthening the research capacity of FMI in the area of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The main go
Towards Web-Based Education of Demography
This paper describes steps taken towards introducing Web-based educational technology in teaching demography at the university level. Traditionally, demography is taught by giving lectures to the students, who are then expected to study from textbooks and exercise in demographic calculus. Some students find this way of learning monotonous and exhausting, hence their motivation gradually drops. Modern learning technology can help prevent such a situation, at least to an extent. Of course, using a
An Experience Applying Reinforcement Learning in a Web-Based Adaptive and Intelligent Educational Sy
The definition of effective pedagogical strategies for coaching and tutoring students according to their needs is one of the most important issues in Adaptive and Intelligent Educational Systems (AIES). The use of a Reinforcement Learning (RL) model allows the system to learn automatically how to teach to each student individually, only based on the acquired experience with other learners with similar characteristics, like a human tutor does. The application of this artificial intelligence techn
Information Technologies for Biology Education: Computerized Electrophysiology of Plant Cells
Biology has moved from a bench-based discipline to a bioinformational science in modern times but application of computational and analytical methods of informatics in it is still a problem for many researchers and students of biology. We suggest to integrate cost effective and practical combination of the real and the virtual laboratories into the undergraduate biological science curriculum. This laboratory work illustrates passive and active electrical properties of plant cell membranes while
Une approche pro-pédagogique du diagnostic cognitif dans les STI: conception, formalisation, et imp
In an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS), issues related to the design and the implementation of the cognitive diagnosis (DC) of learner's behavior is addressed intuitively according to the specific goals of this STI. From a purely operational viewpoint, this approach is not really bad since the STIs arising from it, "work". However, when it comes to give to DC a pedagogical dimension in the human tutors, a look into perspective on more fundamental considerations promotes reflection in this direc
From Questions to Queries
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Collaborative learning - New learning models and applications
Distance education defined as education that takes place when the learner and the instructor are in separate location is undergoing changes throughout the world. The teaching environment is undergoing a major shift as more and more programs are offering classes online. This shift is due to rising costs in education, enrollment management issues, and an evolution in the use of distance learning.
How users behave in a combined community/content environment
Currently, combined community/content environments gain increasing importance in different areas of life, ranging from private to educational to corporate contexts. However, since they are still a novel achievement it is not so clear how they should be organised in order to their successful operation. For gaining a deeper insight in what makes such an environment work, the authors systematically analysed two public environments by evaluating user data and an online questionnaire covering the fol
ePortfolios in Education - Learning Tools or Means of Assessment?
ePortfolios are collections of electronic evidence which capture the idea of lifelong learning ePortfolios at school can support the documentation of competences better than normal tests and assessments. The acquired competences may further be transfered from school to the world of work. On the other hand ePortfolios are powerful tools for learning and reflecting.
Lifelong learning for the Italian Public Administration: the MarchE-Learning Project
This paper describes a local experience for the development of a framework program to set up a Continuous Learning System for Public Administration employees of Marche Region, in Central Italy. Such program belongs to a greater national program, aimed at modernizing the Italian Public Administration by means of the application of ICTs. This program is also part of Italian participation in the European Unions Lisbon Strategy, aimed at turning Europe into one of the most competitive knowledge-ba
DRAC (Distributed Remote ACess system) An On-line Open Source Project-based Learning Tool
Project Based Learning is an essential component in modern engineering education. However, it is difficult to implement in a virtual simulation-based approach, and the need of expensive or specialized equipment can make difficult to use this PBL approach in remote learning. In this paper, a web-based portal is presented; it allows remote access to the resources of several PBL laboratories on Electronics, with a significant emphasis on real-time digital and analog processing and multidisciplinary
Evaluating Wiki as a tool to promote quality academic writing skills
In this study we investigated undergraduate teacher trainees' use of wikis, focusing on the use of shared spaces to communicate ideas and generate course specific content. We explored how students, through such activities, were to able to improve their academic writing skills. We discuss writing as a social practice and discuss how wikis might promote better academic writing. With data derived from student discussion boards and a post-module e-mail questionnaire (N=35) our findings indicate that
Learning with the Web 2.0: The Encyclopedia of Life
In the 1990s, the World Wide Web has revolutionized the way in which knowledge seekers satisfy their thirst for knowledge. During the recent years, a technological and social paradigm shift called Web 2.0 attracted a lot of attention in the Internet community and is considered a major evolution of the web. New online applications make it easier for individuals to learn, using the vast information provided by the Internet and the collective intelligence of its users. The Encyclopedia of Life, a g
Sign Language Interpreters Training
Nowadays, the evolution of technology and the increasing use of computers gave the opportunity for developing new methods of education of deaf individuals and sign language interpreters. The e-learning environments that have been developed for the education of sign language provide web-based courses, designed to effectively teach to anyone the Sign Language. Recognizing the difficulties and barriers of sign language training as well as the importance of sign language interpreters for the communi
Exploitation of Croquet CVE Platform for supporting Collaborative e-Learning Environments
This paper reviews the features of five 3 dimensional networked virtual environments which support collaborative learning applications, through the comparison of the tools and services they offer. Following that, we justify our choice of platform, which is the Croquet platform, and discuss design and implementation issues. Finally we present the results of the evaluation process of the virtual environment we developed, which consisted of the participation of twelve postgraduate students who comp
Introduction of Computer Studies to non-science university students: The Sri Lankan experience
Introduction of computer studies as a subject to students in the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences in Sri Lankan universities is a relatively recent experience. University of Kelaniya was the first university in Sri Lanka that offered computer studies as a subject to its Bachelor of Arts Degree programme starting in 2001. This paper attempts to analyze the relative performance of science and non-science students offering the same module under the new computer studies curriculum.
An adaptive learning environment in DICE system with TDD model
We introduce an adaptive learning environment named DALM (DICE adaptive learning model) based on DICE test-driven development (TDD) model that was implemented in a parse-tree based automatic on-line grader. In our opinion, there are three variables in DALM. The individual differences (I) classify the learners into several groups. The training method (T) that equivalent to TDD model in DICE can be controlled by DICE system. The learning outcome (O) presents the learning performance of learners wi
Conceptions en santé animale et tutorat assisté par ordinateur
Le travail présenté a été effectué dans le cadre de la validation d'un système expert en santé animal développée par l'INRA. Les conceptions d'éleveurs sont analysées en situation de résolution de problème en élevage porcin afin de les confronter avec celles formalisées dans le système expert porcidact.
Efficient object based streaming framework for web-based education
An efficient moving object extraction algorithm suitable for real-time content-based multimedia streaming systems is proposed in this paper. A Motion Vector (MV) based object extraction is used to dynamically detect the objects. To utilize the bandwidth efficiently, the important object can be real time detected, encoded, and transmitted with higher quality and higher frame rate than those of background. In order to meet the real-time requirement, no computationally intensive operation is includ


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Utes football: Eagles pick Utah's Joe Kruger in 7th round of NFL draft
Tom Smart, Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — Opportunity knocked twice for Joe Kruger.
As a senior out of Pleasant Grove High School, Kruger turned down a chance for play football for Chip Kelly when he opted to accept a scholarship to Utah instead of Oregon.
Now, three years later, Kruger is going to lace them up for Kelly. This time in the National Football League, where Kelly is the new head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles — the team that selected Kruger in the seventh round (212th overall) of the draft Saturday.
"It's kind of crazy," Kruger said. "I didn't play for him in college and now I'm playing for him in the pros."
The 6-foot-7, 280-pound junior, who opted to bypass his final season of collegiate eligibility, earned honorable mention all-Pac-12 honors in 2012 — making 30 tackles, eight tackles for loss and a team-high six sacks. Kruger also returned an interception 24 yards for a touchdown, forced two fumbles, had two quarterback hurries, a pass breakup and a blocked field goal.
"I don't know a lot about their defensive line situation, but I know that Joe is Chip Kelly's kind of guy," said Utah coach Kyle Whittingham. "I know Chip Kelly and he likes those hard-working, no-nonsense players, which is exactly what Joe is."
Kruger was one of four Pac-12 players drafted by Kelly. The new Eagles coach also took Stanford tight end Zach Ertz (second round), USC quarterback Matt Barkley (fourth round) and Oregon State cornerback Jordan Poyer (seventh round).
"He's coached in the league and he knows these people very well," Kruger said. "So I'm not surprised at that and I hope it works out well."
As for Kruger, Kelly didn't expect him to be on the board in the seventh round. Kruger was also surprised and then relieved.
"I was sitting there waiting for a long time, so I was glad the phone call finally came and that I was fortunate enough to get picked by the Eagles," he said. "I'm just excited, really excited."
Kruger, who expressed gratitude for his time at Utah, is the third member of his family to be drafted into the NFL from the Utes in recent years. His oldest brother Paul was selected in the second round by the Baltimore Ravens in 2009 and brother-in-law Tony Bergstrom was taken in the third round last year by the Oakland Raiders.
Joe's other older brother, Dave, signed a preferred free agent deal with the Browns shortly after the draft Saturday.
Other reported signings by undrafted players included offensive lineman Sam Brenner (Miami), return specialist Reggie Dunn (Pittsburgh), cornerback Ryan Lacy (New Orleans), cornerback Moe Lee (Baltimore), tight end David Rolf (San Diego), punter Sean Sellwood (Atlanta), center Tevita Stevens (Washington) and cornerback Reggie Topps (Arizona).
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Though not quite as elegant as his best work.By Matt Zoller Seitz
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Ratner on Hef: Director Brett Ratner will direct Playboy, a biopic of Hugh Hefner, for Universal. Brian Grazer's Imagine will produce, and John Hoffman is writing. Ratner's first-ever visit to the Playboy Mansion last week convinced the aging Hef that the auteur behind Rush Hour was the man to tell the story of Playboy's part in the cultural revolutions of the sixties. We just hope Ratner remembers to put boobs in it! [Variety]


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American teenagers love their smartphone apps, but many are avoiding them, due to fears about privacy and location tracking.
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Predictive modeling and advanced analytics
Discussion of technologies and vendors in the overlapping areas of predictive analytics, predictive modeling, data mining, machine learning, Monte Carlo analysis, and other "advanced" analytics.
Where the innovation is
I hoped to write a reasonable overview of current- to medium-term future IT innovation. Yeah, right. But if we abandon any hope that this post could be comprehensive, I can at least say:
1. Back in 2011, I ranted against the term Big Data, but expressed more fondness for the V words — Volume, Velocity, Variety and Variability. That said, when it comes to data management and movement, solutions to the V problems have generally been sketched out.
- Volume has been solved. There are Hadoop installations with 100s of petabytes of data, analytic RDBMS with 10s of petabytes, general-purpose Exadata sites with petabytes, and 10s/100s of petabytes of analytic Accumulo at the NSA. Further examples abound.
- Velocity is being solved. My recent post on Hadoop-based streaming suggests how. In other use cases, velocity is addressed via memory-centric RDBMS.
- Variety and Variability have been solved. MongoDB, Cassandra and perhaps others are strong NoSQL choices. Schema-on-need is in earlier days, but may help too.
2. Even so, there's much room for innovation around data movement and management. I'd start with:
- Product maturity is a huge issue for all the above, and will remain one for years.
- Hadoop and Spark show that application execution engines:
- Have a lot of innovation ahead of them.
- Are tightly entwined with data management, and with data movement as well.
- Hadoop is due for another refactoring, focused on both in-memory and persistent storage.
- There are many issues in storage that can affect data technologies as well, including but not limited to:
- Solid-state (flash or post-flash) vs. spinning disk.
- Networked vs. direct-attached.
- Virtualized vs. identifiable-physical.
- Object/file/block.
- Graph analytics and data management are still confused.
3. As I suggested last year, data transformation is an important area for innovation. Read more
Notes on machine-generated data, year-end 2014
Most IT innovation these days is focused on machine-generated data (sometimes just called "machine data"), rather than human-generated. So as I find myself in the mood for another survey post, I can't think of any better idea for a unifying theme.
1. There are many kinds of machine-generated data. Important categories include:
- Web, network and other IT logs.
- Game and mobile app event data.
- CDRs (telecom Call Detail Records).
- "Phone-home" data from large numbers of identical electronic products (for example set-top boxes).
- Sensor network output (for example from a pipeline or other utility network).
- Vehicle telemetry.
- Health care data, in hospitals.
- Digital health data from consumer devices.
- Images from public-safety camera networks.
- Stock tickers (if you regard them as being machine-generated, which I do).
That's far from a complete list, but if you think about those categories you'll probably capture most of the issues surrounding other kinds of machine-generated data as well.
2. Technology for better information and analysis is also technology for privacy intrusion. Public awareness of privacy issues is focused in a few areas, mainly: Read more
WibiData's approach to predictive modeling and experimentation
A conversation I have too often with vendors goes something like:
- "That confidential thing you told me is interesting, and wouldn't harm you if revealed; probably quite the contrary."
- "Well, I guess we could let you mention a small subset of it."
- "I'm sorry, that's not enough to make for an interesting post."
That was the genesis of some tidbits I recently dropped about WibiData and predictive modeling, especially but not only in the area of experimentation. However, Wibi just reversed course and said it would be OK for me to tell more or less the full story, as long as I note that we're talking about something that's still in beta test, with all the limitations (to the product and my information alike) that beta implies.
As you may recall:
- WibiData started out with a rich technology stack …
- … but decided to cast itself as an application company …
- … whose first vertical market is retailing,
With that as background, WibiData's approach to predictive modeling as of its next release will go something like this: Read more
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Notes and links, December 12, 2014
1. A couple years ago I wrote skeptically about integrating predictive modeling and business intelligence. I'm less skeptical now.
For starters:
- The predictive experimentation I wrote about over Thanksgiving calls naturally for some BI/dashboarding to monitor how it's going.
- If you think about Nutonian's pitch, it can be approximated as "Root-cause analysis so easy a business analyst can do it." That could be interesting to jump to after BI has turned up anomalies. And it should be pretty easy to whip up a UI for choosing a data set and objective function to model on, since those are both things that the BI tool would know how to get to anyway.
I've also heard a couple of ideas about how predictive modeling can support BI. One is via my client Omer Trajman, whose startup ScalingData is still semi-stealthy, but says they're "working at the intersection of big data and IT operations". The idea goes something like this:
- Suppose we have lots of logs about lots of things.* Machine learning can help:
- Notice what's an anomaly.
- Group* together things that seem to be experiencing similar anomalies.
- That can inform a BI-plus interface for a human to figure out what is happening.
Makes sense to me.
* The word "cluster" could have been used here in a couple of different ways, so I decided to avoid it altogether.
Finally, I'm hearing a variety of "smart ETL/data preparation" and "we recommend what columns you should join" stories. I don't know how much machine learning there's been in those to date, but it's usually at least on the roadmap to make the systems (yet) smarter in the future. The end benefit is usually to facilitate BI.
2. Discussion of graph DBMS can get confusing. For example: Read more
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Thoughts and notes, Thanksgiving weekend 2014
I'm taking a few weeks defocused from work, as a kind of grandpaternity leave. That said, the venue for my Dances of Infant Calming is a small-but-nice apartment in San Francisco, so a certain amount of thinking about tech industries is inevitable. I even found time last Tuesday to meet or speak with my clients at WibiData, MemSQL, Cloudera, Citus Data, and MongoDB. And thus:
1. I've been sloppy in my terminology around "geo-distribution", in that I don't always make it easy to distinguish between:
- Storing different parts of a database in different geographies, often for reasons of data privacy regulatory compliance.
- Replicating an entire database into different geographies, often for reasons of latency and/or availability/ disaster recovery,
The latter case can be subdivided further depending on whether multiple copies of the data can accept first writes (aka active-active, multi-master, or multi-active), or whether there's a clear single master for each part of the database.
What made me think of this was a phone call with MongoDB in which I learned that the limit on number of replicas had been raised from 12 to 50, to support the full-replication/latency-reduction use case.
2. Three years ago I posted about agile (predictive) analytics. One of the points was:
… if you change your offers, prices, ad placement, ad text, ad appearance, call center scripts, or anything else, you immediately gain new information that isn't well-reflected in your previous models.
Subsequently I've been hearing more about predictive experimentation such as bandit testing. WibiData, whose views are influenced by a couple of Very Famous Department Store clients (one of which is Macy's), thinks experimentation is quite important. And it could be argued that experimentation is one of the simplest and most direct ways to increase the value of your data.
3. I'd further say that a number of developments, trends or possibilities I'm seeing are or could be connected. These include agile and experimental predictive analytics in general, as noted in the previous point, along with: Read more
Notes on predictive modeling, November 2, 2014
Following up on my notes on predictive modeling post from three weeks ago, I'd like to tackle some areas of recurring confusion.
Why are we modeling?
Ultimately, there are two reasons to model some aspect of your business:
- You generally want insight and understanding.
- This is analogous to why you might want to do business intelligence.
- It commonly includes a search for causality, whether or not "root cause analysis" is exactly the right phrase to describe the process.
- You want to do calculations from the model to drive wholly or partially automated decisions.
- A big set of examples can be found in website recommenders and personalizers.
- Another big set of examples can be found in marketing campaigns.
- For an example of partial automation, consider a tool that advises call center workers.
How precise do models need to be?
Use cases vary greatly with respect to the importance of modeling precision. If you're doing an expensive mass mailing, 1% additional accuracy is a big deal. But if you're doing root cause analysis, a 10% error may be immaterial.
Who is doing the work?
It is traditional to have a modeling department, of "data scientists" or SAS programmers as the case may be. While it seems cool to put predictive modeling straight in the hands of business users — some business users, at least — it's rare for them to use predictive modeling tools more sophisticated than Excel. For example, KXEN never did all that well.
That said, I support the idea of putting more modeling in the hands of business users. Just be aware that doing so is still a small business at this time.
"Operationalizing" predictive models
The topic of "operationalizing" models arises often, and it turns out to be rather complex. Usually, to operationalize a model, you need: Read more
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Analytics for lots and lots of business users
A common marketing theme in the 2010s decade has been to claim that you make analytics available to many business users, as opposed to your competition, who only make analytics available to (pick one):
- Specialists (with "PhD"s).
- Fewer business users (a thinner part of the horizontally segmented pyramid — perhaps inverted — on your marketing slide, not to be confused with the horizontally segmented pyramids — perhaps inverted — on your competition's marketing slides).
Versions of this claim were also common in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
Some of that is real. In particular:
- Early adoption of analytic technology is often in line-of-business departments.
- Business users on average really do get more numerate over time, my three favorite examples of that being:
- Statistics is taught much more in business schools than it used to be.
- Statistics is taught much more in high schools than it used to be.
- Many people use Excel.
Even so, for most analytic tools, power users tend to be:
- People with titles or roles like "business analyst".
- More junior folks pulling things together for their bosses.
- A hardcore minority who fall into neither of the first two categories.
Asserting otherwise is rarely more than marketing hype.
Related link
- "Freeing business analysts from IT" (August, 2014)
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Datameer at the time of Datameer 5.0
Datameer checked in, having recently announced general availability of Datameer 5.0. So far as I understood, Datameer is still clearly in the investigative analytics business, in that:
- Datameer does business intelligence, but not at human real-time speeds. Datameer query durations are sometimes sub-minute, but surely not sub-second.
- Datameer also does lightweight predictive analytics/machine learning — k-means clustering, decision trees, and so on.
Key aspects include:
- Datameer runs straight against Hadoop.
- Like many other analytic offerings, Datameer is meant to be "self-service", for line-of-business business analysts, and includes some "data preparation". Datameer also has had some data profiling since Datameer 4.0.
- The main way of interacting with Datameer seems to be visual analytic programming. However, I Datameer has evolved somewhat away from its original spreadsheet metaphor.
- Datameer's primitives resemble those you'd find in SQL (e.g. JOINs, GROUPBYs). More precisely, that would be SQL with a sessionization extension; e.g., there's a function called GROUPBYGAP.
- Datameer lets you write derived data back into Hadoop.
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Notes on predictive modeling, October 10, 2014
As planned, I'm getting more active in predictive modeling. Anyhow …
1. I still believe most of what I said in a July, 2013 predictive modeling catch-all post. However, I haven't heard as much subsequently about Ayasdi as I had expected to.
2. The most controversial part of that post was probably the claim:
I think the predictive modeling state of the art has become:
- Cluster in some way.
- Model separately on each cluster.
In particular:
- It is always possible to instead go with a single model formally.
- A lot of people think accuracy, ease-of-use, or both are better served by a true single-model approach.
- Conversely, if you have a single model that's pretty good, it's natural to look at the subset of the data for which it works poorly and examine that first. Voila! You've just done a kind of clustering.
3. Nutonian is now a client. I just had my first meeting with them this week. To a first approximation, they're somewhat like KXEN (sophisticated math, non-linear models, ease of modeling, quasi-automagic feature selection), but with differences that start: Read more
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Spark vs. Tez, revisited
I'm on record as noting and agreeing with an industry near-consensus that Spark, rather than Tez, will be the replacement for Hadoop MapReduce. I presumed that Hortonworks, which is pushing Tez, disagreed. But Shaun Connolly of Hortonworks suggested a more nuanced view. Specifically, Shaun tweeted thoughts including:
Tez vs Spark = Apples vs Oranges.
Spark is general-purpose engine with elegant APIs for app devs creating modern data-driven apps, analytics, and ML algos.
Tez is a framework for expressing purpose-built YARN-based DAGs; its APIs are for ISVs & engine/tool builders who embed it
[For example], Hive embeds Tez to convert its SQL needs into purpose-built DAGs expressed optimally and leveraging YARN
That said, I haven't yet had a chance to understand what advantages Tez might have over Spark in the use cases that Shaun relegates it to.
Related link
- The Twitter discussion with Shaun was a spin-out from my research around streaming for Hadoop.
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#11261 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
method chmod in WP_Filesystem doesn't work in recursive mode
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The following code doesn't work when recursive mode is used :
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function chmod($file, $mode = false, $recursive = false) { if( ! $mode ) $mode = $this->permission; if( ! $mode ) return false; if ( ! $this->exists($file) && ! $this->is_dir($file) ) return false; if ( ! $recursive || ! $this->is_dir($file) ) { if ( ! function_exists('ftp_chmod') ){ return @ftp_site($this->link, sprintf('CHMOD %o %s', $mode, $file)); } echo "@ftp_chmod(_$this->link, $mode, $file);"; return @ftp_chmod($this->link, $mode, $file); } //Is a directory, and we want recursive $filelist = $this->dirlist($file); foreach($filelist as $filename){ $this->chmod($file . '/' . $filename, $mode, $recursive); } return true; }
No chmod is apply on the directory. Chmod is apply only on subfiles (and subdirectories but the same problem appear...)
$this->dirlist return an array of array. On this case:
$this->chmod($file . '/' . $filename, $mode, $recursive);
$filename is an array, not the filename. It can't work.
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Change History (10)
comment:1 @dd32 — 6 years ago
- Component changed from General to Filesystem
- Keywords needs-patch added; ftpext chmod class-wp-filesystem-ftpext.php removed
- Milestone changed from Unassigned to 2.9
- Owner set to dd32
- Status changed from new to accepted
comment:2 @ryan — 6 years ago
- Milestone changed from 2.9 to 3.0
See also #10889
Postponing to 3.0 since we don't have a patch.
comment:3 @dd32 — 6 years ago
- Summary changed from method chmod in class-wp-filesystem-ftpext doesn't work in recursive mode to method chmod in WP_Filesystem doesn't work in recursive mode
What should the settings on the directories be set to? ($mode & exec (browse) bits?)
@reaperhulk — 6 years ago
first attempt at fixing this bug
comment:4 @reaperhulk — 6 years ago
The attachment above is my attempt at fixing this bug. I reordered the logic so it checks to see if it's recursive and a directory first. It will then recursively call chmod (using the proper filename now).
comment:5 @reaperhulk — 6 years ago
- Cc reaperhulk added
comment:6 @reaperhulk — 6 years ago
- Keywords has-patch added; needs-patch removed
@reaperhulk — 6 years ago
Patch using svn diff.
comment:7 @dd32 — 6 years ago
The only problem i can see with that is that in some cases, you'll need to chmod the folder before you can get a directory listing.. That should be a pretty rare case however.
I'm going to attempt testing this shortly along with a few other changes.


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1994 Chevrolet Cavalier • 134,000 miles
1994 Chevy cavalier 2.2 liter shutting down at stops, lost of power around 40mph and 10 miles later. Tried too restart starts and as soon as I put in gear it shuts off. Before this trouble and 10 mile trip I replace all spark plugs and wires, cleaned intake & replaced PVC valve also treated fuel with sea foam engine cleaner as well as filled up on 93 octane fuel. Air filter last change when oil was changed 3000 miles ago. Vehicle has 134000 miles on engine last major tune up of all gaskets and water pump & thermostat done at 104,000 miles. I tested each spark plug wires for arcing & I had voltage from ignition coils (all 4). Can you point me in the right direction?
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I am replacing my engine in my 2003 Hyundai Tiburon. It is a 4 cylinder vehicle, but all the engines I am able to find are 6 cylinder engines. Is it possible to replace a the 4 cylinder...
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If i took out my 91 toyota carolla engine what other cars would it be compatible with?
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1990 Toyota Camry mileage: 150,000. 1. The oil warning light is on. 2. There are four quarts of oil in the car. 3. The oil filter is dry. 4. The engine sounds rough. 5. There is noise ...
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Apple released a new iPhone ad last night, and I know of at least one person that will like this one. They're continuing to show off the App Store, and just like last time, they are featuring an individual application. The MLB (At Bat) application is the lucky player for this edition.
The narrator says, "It can be a score checker, a live pitch updater, or video highlight player. But any way you cut it, it's officially a game changer."
The new commercial is called "Game Changer" and can be viewed from the iPhone ads website.
Thanks to Jack and others for the tip!
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We love it when ballet pops up in unexpected places. Our excitement levels nearly went through the roof after stumbling across the new Lexus IS advertisement, "Poise." The ad features the stunning Tamara Rojo, artistic director and lead principal dancer of the English National Ballet, leaping, turning and generally rocking out to a new hip-hop track, Step It Up by Kozmeniuk. The only problem? The commercial was produced by Lexus UK and won't be airing in the States. Still, we love the ad's message: "A stronger body for greater control."
It seems like there's a point where dance critics have seen so much ballet that they forget to watch the performance. They've watched the same dancers and the same (or virtually the same) choreography so many times, their minds start to wander during a show. They find something onstage that bugs them, and think, "Aha! A brilliant idea for tomorrow's review."
As ballet nerds, we love when celebs fess up about how dancing fits into their fitness routine. Who's the most recent to reveal his dedication to the ballet barre? None other than Rolling Stone lead singer and notorious bad boy Mick Jagger.
With sun-up to sun-down summer intensive hours approaching, remember that there are some vitamins you can't get from snacks and meals alone. Researchers have found that athletes who train indoors have low levels of vitamin D due to lack of sunlight. Vitamin D allows bones to absorb the calcium they need to stay strong and it helps to strengthen the immune system.
Forty-plus years of history mixed together in one traveling exhibition—can it really be done? Dance Theater of Harlem took on the task, and is now touring Dance Theatre of Harlem: 40 Years of Firsts around the country for fans to enjoy.
Whether you're wilting in the summer heat or steaming under hot theatrical lights, your sweat can wreak havoc on your stage makeup. Make sure your look stays put, no matter how toasty things get.
1. Apply primer for an extra layer of sweat-proof hold underneath foundation.
2. Try using tinted moisturizer around the eyes instead of a heavier concealer. That allows the skin to breathe, and the lighter formula is less likely to get caked or clumpy.
Many dancers arrive home and pull out their foam roller to ease those sore muscles after rehearsal. But could the need for a post-rehearsal rollout be avoided altogether? Studies show that if you want to help prevent injuries and ease muscle tension, rolling is most useful when done before dancing.
David Hallberg is everywhere right now—from the Bolshoi and ABT to fashion magazines to TV. Today, NOWNESS.com, a luxury lifestyle website, premiered a new short dance film called "Hallberg at Work" featuring the ballet star in the ABT studios, performing a solo created for him by Marcelo Gomes. It's an intense, up-close five-minute clip that kind of feels like what would happen if Darren Aronofsky made a dance film...oh, wait.
What does it take for a dancer to become a dancewear designer? An eye for fashion—and a lot of sewing. Colorado Ballet's Tracy Jones, one of the dancers highlighted in Pointe's "Stars of the Corps" this issue, also owns her own skirt business, Tulips By Tracy. Enter our giveaway to win one of her skirts here.
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College & Community Expo
The community engagement projects Whittier College students, faculty and staff have worked on for the 2015-2016 academic year will be on display. Please come and hear students present the work they've done in partnership with community organizations. This is the premier event of the Center for Engagement with Communities, highlighting the wide variety of partnerships forged to solve community problems.


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"A Young Commonwealth": this year's theme recognises that young people account for the majority of the Commonwealth's population and play a vital role in shaping the world we live in, now and in years to come.
Run by the Royal Commonwealth Society since 1883, the Commonwealth Essay Competition is the world's oldest and largest schools' international writing competition. It provides a platform for young people to compete with their peers in a truly global environment. To download the competition leaflet containing information on topics, rules and prizes click here.
The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition 2015, run in partnership with Cambridge University Press, closes for entries on 1st May. In the meantime, stay up to date with the latest competition news by following the RCS on Facebook and Twitter. For more information email email@example.com
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