Archive for November 11th, 2008

Moodle geo-reporting

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Continued from this post. Client requested reports I already created once. Updated geocoded_ip table in moodle database with php script (geocodeMoodle.php) updated mdl_log table to hold country info (query takes a long time) -> couldn't finish yet ran queries on database edited results in Excel Sent to client

Installed Moodle 2.0 dev

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Installed Moodle 2.0 dev version to start testing eportfolios. okiedokie for everything, except Moodle 2.0 needs php 5.2.x and CentOS 5.x does not yet support PHP 5.2.x in it's repositories. There is a method to get PHP 5.2.x. Just add a new repository and upgrade php from there. Didn't want to do ...

Install Mahara

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Installed Mahara on shared server: installed php-json (other mahara required php extensions were already installed) mkdir maharadev in webroot mkdir mahara in mahara dataroot createdb maharadev (as postgresql db user) downloaded code extract code and copy to mahara webroot edited httpd.conf run web-installer Voila, easy does it

MS Licensing

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

About licensing costs for MS EE servers: OS: 40 Euro OS EE: 140 Euro SQL: 80 Euro SQL EE: 700 Euro Damn, that's a lot of money; I think we have about 100 - 150 licenses. I hope the boss does the math.