Prerequisites
Development Environment Setup Walkthrough
Need help meeting the prerequisites? Use the walkthrough at the link below:
Development Environment Setup Walkthrough
More information to help you get started
Developer videos
Anyone planning to do sakai development should watch the 3 videos made by Zach Thomas before attempting to install sakai or go through the steps in this document (do not try to follow the steps in the video, just learn the terminology and get familiar with the interfaces):
Developing for Sakai - Video 1
Developing for Sakai - Video 2
Developing for Sakai - Video 3
Official installation pages
The official sakai 2 installation pages are located here:
Sakai Installation GuideLook here if you are installing Sakai on a server for more than just development
Comments
Also for those of you not at VT, here's a public link to Aqua Data Studio:
The cafe is the best.
I'm sorry I won't be able to attend.
If you're thinking of attending do yourself a favor and honor these prereqs.
The presentation goes down hill when most of the time is spent helping attendees try and wade through these steps.
I think the most crucial one is to of done a Maven build on the machine you are bringing - and that the Maven repository it builds is on that machine! No fair leaving it on your network at the office. When attendees build their local Mave repo with a room full of people over a wireless network you can fairly hear the hotel routers melt down.
(Bistromaths - are you going to bring a shuttle or some small box with the repo on it? you could put
it on the local conference net and at least save some traffic. peeps cld then just use the local IP of that box for their Mavenage.)
For those of you not at VT, here's a public link to DB Visualizer:
http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis/