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Thoughts and ramblings: About Me
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Thoughts and rambling of the developer within. What do I do? I'm a Systems Developer. What does that mean? I write software, and integrate systems. What software do I work with? I use Debian Linux. I work with and contribute to Mahara. I work with Moodle. I primarily write php, and perl. I write shell too. I live and work in the North-West of England. I love the Open Source ethos and the idea of contributing towards a wider community towards a common goal. I enjoy the scenery and the area I work in.
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Thoughts and ramblings: Mahara 1.4 Cookbook Review
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Thoughts and rambling of the developer within. Sunday, 9 October 2011. Mahara 1.4 Cookbook Review. A short while ago I was asked to review the Mahara 1.4 Cookbook. Written by Ellen Murphie. I was quite excited to see what suggestions she had to offer on the many differing ways to use Mahara. The book is split into eight chapters covering different types of user and use-cases with each chapter being made of a number of recipes (well, it is a cookbook! The first chapter, Mahara for the Visual Arts,. I was ...
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Thoughts and ramblings: Mahara, Mahara, and more Mahara
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Thoughts and rambling of the developer within. Thursday, 15 September 2011. Mahara, Mahara, and more Mahara. Just a quick post really, I've been working really hard on all sorts of bits and pieces so not had much time to blog about several of the things I've been planning to blog on. Very frustrating but something I intend to rectify. I've been a core Mahara. Developer for about 18 months, and working heavily with it for about two years now - time flies when you're having fun! The main reason for writing...
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Thoughts and ramblings: October 2010
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Thoughts and rambling of the developer within. Friday, 29 October 2010. As I've mentioned before, I do quite a bit of development work on Mahara. There are some really handy debugging features which it's worth knowing about. As Mahara ships, debug, info, warn an environ error messages are sent to your error log. Environ message are also sent to screen. The default settings for logging are in lib/config-defaults.php under the Logging Configuration. Posted by Andrew Nicols. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Thoughts and ramblings: August 2010
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Thoughts and rambling of the developer within. Friday, 20 August 2010. The power of git - splitting one file into multiple commits. Another really handy thing with Git, which I do use regularly, is it's ability to split lots of changes to the same file into separate logical commits. Thankfully, git makes this really easy with the git add command. Set up an example repository. Make some changes to our example file. Make a change to the beginning of the file:. And make a change to the end of the file:.
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Thoughts and ramblings: Server Distributions...
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Thoughts and rambling of the developer within. Wednesday, 29 December 2010. I've been thinking quite a bit over the past couple of weeks as to what is the 'best' server distribution. We use Debian at work and I think that it's healthy to re-evaluate decisions once in a while, and see if they still make sense. In my mind, the key players of the Linux distribution world, which most people seem to consider fo servers are:. RHEL, Fedora and CentOS. As a result, many people seem to use. For Fedora is every si...
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Thoughts and ramblings: Deploying Moodle - continued
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Thoughts and rambling of the developer within. Thursday, 11 July 2013. Deploying Moodle - continued. One thing that I didn't really touch upon in my previous blog post was the method in which we actually deploy Moodle to our live servers. Our production Moodle system is. well, complicated. We only have 14,000 students at present, but we're trying to really push use of the Moodle and the last thing that we want to happen is for it to go down. We have five live web servers (moodle-web[0,1,2,3,4]). Thes...
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Thoughts and ramblings: October 2011
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Thoughts and rambling of the developer within. Wednesday, 19 October 2011. Rapid Moodle development using Git. Recently I've been doing a lot of Moodle development, and every time I start a feature, or work on a bug, I've been creating a new branch. I often also create a new database, and a fresh install just to make sure that there's nothing fruity going on. All this has meant that I've had branches and databases coming out of my ears. Generic moodle bug: MDL- bug number - revision. Written by Ellen Mur...
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Thoughts and ramblings: Debugging Mahara
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Thoughts and rambling of the developer within. Friday, 29 October 2010. As I've mentioned before, I do quite a bit of development work on Mahara. There are some really handy debugging features which it's worth knowing about. As Mahara ships, debug, info, warn an environ error messages are sent to your error log. Environ message are also sent to screen. The default settings for logging are in lib/config-defaults.php under the Logging Configuration. Posted by Andrew Nicols. View my complete profile. Moodle...
