Devving Tools
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Online tools for setting up team development: Online team space for agile dev teams: assembla Track hacks: extensions, plugins and macros for Trac
Archive for October, 2007
Online tools for setting up team development: Online team space for agile dev teams: assembla Track hacks: extensions, plugins and macros for Trac
Moodle Moot 2007
Monday, October 22nd, 2007From 23-25 October, the MoodleMoot will be held in Milton Keynes in England. Interesting sessions: Preconference Hackfest Moodle-Mahara, SSO and ePortfolio Repositories Mark 2 Aligning OpenSource, leveraging Moodle and Sakai Unit Tests in Moodle Development Moodle Network / Google Scalability Mapping with Moodle Moodle "Enterprise" Moodle for internationa Development Short report after the conference, probably next week. I should read these docs: ...
CIDR mask cheatsheet
Monday, October 22nd, 2007I always get confused when applying or reading ip-range masks. Here is a nice cheatsheet for reference.
Moodle Performance
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Interesting post of Martin Langhoff: Moodle is usually mainly bottlenecked on the disk IO, specially on the DB side, so we run several pairs of RAID-1 disks, and run them split - the main things to try and have segregated are: OS + Moodle code + eaccelerator files /var/log/ DB storage: /var/lib/mysql or /var/lib/postgresql DB transaction log ...
Building referrer check
Friday, October 19th, 2007For a client we built a custom page to check the referrer address. If link comes from that address, user gets permission to login to moodle. Referer check is ready and works. Now I only have to login to moodle Login is arranged by redirect hidden form with credentials. There seems to be ...
SSO Moodle
Thursday, October 18th, 2007We need to find out single sign on for Moodle. Some users want to use it as a kind of repository. Some interesting leads: Forum discussions: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=65100 http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=71041 (promoodle.com) http://docs.moodle.org/en/NTLM_authentication http://promoodle.com Discussed a bit and we are now thinking about fixing the problem with a redirect page in where we check the origin of the url and ...
Xen (Virtualization)
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Problem domain: as an application manager / service provider, you are faced with dynamic user demands and loads. Therefor, you want your application to be scalable. So when user load increases, you can upscale your server layout to handle that increased load. The first step in scaling applications is ...
MySQL2PostgreSQL Moodle
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Continued from this post. Migration is done in 2 steps: 1. Dump mySQL schema, convert to pgSQL dump and edit (src-server) created script: 2. create pgDatabase (tgt-server) created script: 3. Dump mySQL data and import in new pgSQL db (src->tgt) created script:
iSCSI persistency
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007Yesterday I had some problems loosing my session when logged in to a Moodle with the data directory on the iSCSI disk. I guessed that might be because of persistency but it might also be because of e.g. cookie prefix. Set up test moodle to check for this issue. Note: did ...
