Archive for February, 2008
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
I was browsing around the web and stumbled upon squid. Sounds like something to investigate, can also be useful for general server architecture. Squid can also act as a load balancer.
Another reverse proxy mentioned is varnish
Experiment with Lighttpd, like some comments in this post on the Moodle forums.
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
The gradebook of 1.9 provides a great possibility for creating custom reports.
On the moodlesite there is a short tutorial about creating custom reports with the new gradebook.
Looks ok.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Installed Virtualbox on my Debianbox:
add user to virtualbox group
modprobe virtualbox-ose to load the module (add to /etc/modules to load on boottime)
Seems to run smoothly. Just installed WinXP and runs like a charm.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Great work by Sun by setting up a test model to run Moodle with 1 million concurrent users + failover.
Blogpost and Moodle Rooms website .
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Creative Commons, open content.
Creative Commons international site
Creative Commons in Nederland
CC nl wikipedia entry
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
very useful site for network info checking etc:
www.yougetsignal.com
Especially the tool to check other domainnames on a server is usefull
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
I was updating some stylesheet on the remote server of a client and found that some settings can be improved:
check indexes showed that a lot of indexes were misssing
some system programs were missing (like zip)
no caching (e.g. eAccelerator)
database optimization?
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Compare embedded HTML editors. The Moodle one (html-area) is just not good. I think in the new Moodle the TinyMCE will be integrated (probably), which will be an improvement.
HTML Area
TinyMCE
FCK editor
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
got complaints that login to Moodle was very slow. Might be related to missing indexes on some tables.
Coolness: I didn't know but there is a function in Moodle to check for missing indexes: misc -> XMLDB editor . Checks tables for missing indexes and generates SQL to repair. Turned out that ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Seems that we have to get up to tracks with SQL Server and other MS tuning because our techie friends also couldn't get Moodle performing on a MS configuration.
Stumbed across a nice website with performance tips etc.
Moreover, found a tip from someone indicating running a successful WISP setup with PHP 5.1.6 . Check which PHP version TF are ...
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