Postgres Tools
Monday, April 14th, 2008Interesting PostgreSQL tools: pg_bulkload check postgreSQL (nagios monitoring) pg_top pg pool II SkyTools postgres tools as used and developed by the Skype project
Archive for April, 2008
Interesting PostgreSQL tools: pg_bulkload check postgreSQL (nagios monitoring) pg_top pg pool II SkyTools postgres tools as used and developed by the Skype project
Zombies and Defunct processes
Friday, April 11th, 2008Damn, backup got messed up last night. Cleaned up most of the mess (zombies and defuncts and unmounted all still mounted disks). However, some of the zombies stayed alive a long time: found out that the parent was the crond so I restarted the cron service and voila: big succes. ...
Groupings in Moodle 1.9
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Experimented with groupings (groups in groups) for client with world wide branches and businesses. Turned on groupings in Miscellaneous -> Experimental.
NTLM authentication
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Very interesting feature for Windows clients (new in Moodle 1.9): NTLM authentication works with IIS (native) and Apache (several ways including Samba Winbind and Apache mods)
Setup test environment
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Set up test environment to upgrade from 1.8.4+ to 1.9+: copied source code dir to test dir copied datadir backedup database create testdatabase update httpd.conf and reload apache install moodle 1.8.4+ from browser load backed up database in test environment download moodle 1.9+ code cp -a moodle 1.9 code to test environment upgrade to 1.9+ from browser Success
(E-)learning tools
Monday, April 7th, 2008Nice top 100 list about learning toools. There's so much nice stuff available on the internet today, it's difficult to keep track. Should be helpful to make a list / overview of available software in categories. Make nice FOSS overview / intersection of that list. Virtual Learning Environment Portals Testing / examination Blogging Messageboard Portfolio Communication Social Networking We ...
Ldap group synch
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008Building / refactoring group synch for client. They have an Ldap directory (AD) with users in several world wide groups. Initially a kind of mixed flavour php script was written that read the entries from the ldap and compared them to Moodle groups with shell scripts, logging in to Moodle ...
SCORM Moodle communication
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008We had a problem at a client that the SCORM module didn't communicate results back to Moodle. Of course they are using IE. And I don't have much experience with that. Anyway, after some fiddling in my virtual machine I found out that, when internet security is set to 'high', ...
PostgreSQL tuning
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008Useful links for postgres tuning: Powerpostgresql Devshed postgres tips Varlena tips
MySQL > Postgres Migration woes
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008After migrating to postgres with the insert records from a mysqldump, everything seemed fine. But when making a new user there is an error about the primary key: because postgres doesn't have autoincrement, it has problems with the primary key constraint. So apparently the dbfamily variable is not set correctly. ...
