Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Designed new Moodle module to ensure default config settings:
Make an extra table in Moodle database to store config settings. Basically a copy of the config table (prefix_config) with three extra columns: 'stoas_default', 'client' and 'mapping'.
The idea is to output lists (text,pdf), comparing different settings: moodle default <> stoas default <> client . The stoas default should be set once, after the technical delivery. The client settings can be set ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
The OSI site with an overview of Open Source licenses (by category). Some common ones:
GPL
LGPL
Apache2.0
CPL
Catalyst project with information on open source projects for Business: OpenSource4Business: Applications and Tools.
Eduforge: Eduforge is an open access environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open content and open source software for ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
some blogs / sites about eAccelerator:
Benchmarking PHP accelerators
PHP accelerators
Five opcode caches compared
Drupal with APC vs eAccelerator
More web testing tools:
funkload: creating Python classes to test websites; interesting definition of difference between several tests:
Functional testing of web projects, and thus regression testing as well
Performance testing: by loading the web application and monitoring your servers it helps you to pinpoint ...
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Firefox addons for security checking:
Hackbar
URL params: drop POST or GET variables in webforms
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Installed training moodle for client
installed and updated custom theme for client
client had problem with users in group in forum not receiving mails. Probably some functional role or rights setting.
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
For client installed copy of demo Moodle. Later, a copy should probably run on a laptop localhost because internet access might be limited at client.
Therefore, install XAMPP for Windows on XP laptop. Another option WAMP. Maybe in this case the best option is WAMP because it has the least options though everyhting you need. XAMPP also includes Perl and an ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
There are constantly ongoing discussions on the Moodle forums about getting Moodle performing on a MS setup. Summarising, you should LAMP, if somehow possible. However, with Moodle getting more popular among common users, not used to Linux AND among companies, dictating specific hosting environment requirements, more and more requests are ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
On the moodle forums there was a discussion about how to get Moodle performing on a LB setup. Disks on of the FS should then be SCSI or SAS. SAS is Serial Attached SCSI. SAS is a replacement for parallel SCSI / SATA giving advantages: see SAS wikipedia site. It is backwards compatible with SATA.
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
installed eAccelerator on my debian box according to the install instructions on the website.
on Centos and RH machines, there is an eAccelerator package in the repository. Checked and tested. Setup is the same is from source.
when calling php -v from command line I can see eaccelerator is working. When checking ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
Bought two new cool books about linux hacks and immediately found some cool hacks. Among which mtop, a top like monitoring utility to monitor mySQL processes. Similar to ptop for postgreSQL.
However, the mtop website shows the latest release as from 2004. Check if there are newer versions or if it is included in mysql. Maybe then it's better to use mytop, which has been active more recently. Installed on server but missed perl ...
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