Archive for February, 2008
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Discussion about Moodle backup functionality;
From a technical perspective there are two issue:
disk space
cpu
issue 1 is a non-issue. Disk space is cheap and solutions are plenty. Just built a huge SAN or NAS with RAID10 or 5 SCSI or SAS disks.
issue 2 might be an issue, especially with performance under a Windows environment. If you have a load balanced environment you can dedicate one app server to do the backups. Or dedicate a single server to do the backups. We are talking default Moodle backup functionality here, as is optional under the settings Course->backups.
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Damn, my beautiful code didn't quite smoothly migrate from pg to my. The update syntaxt is considerably different:
pg:
UPDATE table1 SET table1.column = table2.column FROM table2 WHERE
my:
UPDATE table1,table2 SET table1.column = table2.column WHERE
I think I should use the Moodle function from the dmllib set_field_select() where you can set a field in the table where a select ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Interesting thread on the Moodle performance forum about tuning a RedHat server setup.
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
Error message from clamdscan: cannot parse config file: Indeed, config file /etc/clamd.conf was not on the system. Turns out I was missing clamav-server, searched rpm, installed and everything worked fine. Clamav rpms were in development repository so enabled dev repos with --enablerepo=development:
yum --enablerepo=development install clamav-server
yum --enablerepo=development update clamav-data
still some problem with ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Yahoo! User Interface.
Documentation, tips and tricks for developing web user interfaces.
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