Re: Advice for developing a complex assignment/assessment type
by Tim Hunt. Sorry, I did not read your previous post enough. The advice to use Database or Glossary activity is almost certainly the way to go.
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Re: Advice sought
by peter gee. hi davo.thanks for your advice. that makes sense.when i showed this to our programmer he responded. "so they are suggesting we do this properly, I'm outraged!"
View ArticleRe: Github Compare view question
by Dan Poltawski. I'm not very skilled with github's interface, but I really love that their URL scheme works like the git commandline does itself. So to do it in compare view you could...
View ArticleHelp for upgrading a custom 2.3 to 2.4 using GIT.
by Jean Michel. Hi guys,I'm using a local copy of Moodle_23_STABLE git branch and I did several improvements to it, with the respective commits. Let's call this as 'MY_BRANCH'. As I would like to...
View ArticleRe: Help for upgrading a custom 2.3 to 2.4 using GIT.
by Andrew Normore. We use SVN to compare the differences, and MANUALLY patch all your customizations.Sucks.
View ArticleRe: Help for upgrading a custom 2.3 to 2.4 using GIT.
by Davo Smith. The best advice I've come across is here: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=191774#p834646Not yet tried it myself, but it makes sense to me and others seem to have found it...
View ArticleRe: Objects are not allowed
by Luis H. Wu . index2.php is a copy of index.php in order to not modify the original one. We are trying to design a new mod making some testing and we can't solve that problem...
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by Luis H. Wu . We have tryed that too, and it doesn't work. Thank you anyway!
View ArticleRe: Help for upgrading a custom 2.3 to 2.4 using GIT.
by Jean Michel. Thanks Davo. Now, I'm testing it..I get the problem "No such strategy ... patience" in the next linegit merge --strategy-option=patience merge_helper_branchMaybe the GIT version? Mine...
View ArticleRe: Help for upgrading a custom 2.3 to 2.4 using GIT.
by Davo Smith. To quote Tim's original post: The --strategy-option=patience bit bascially tells git to try harder at sorting out merge conflicts.Basically, it is non-essential, it just tells git to...
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by Jean Michel. Ok. Done with only 6 conflicts. I think it's great!Do you know some fast-to-see new feature in order to check if the merge was more or less ok?Thanks again Davo!
View ArticleRe: Mass showing and hiding of courses within a category
by Rosario Carcò. James, I understand that and apologize for having interfered here. If core functionality can be improved it will be the best solution. (But I wonder, if you would like to set such...
View ArticleRe: Measuring the speed of Moodle
by Jeremy W. From the article:Q: If I add a lot of images on my course pages, will it affect performance?A: Yes, it will. The number of reads/writes to the database skyrockets when you add images in...
View ArticleRe: Help for upgrading a custom 2.3 to 2.4 using GIT.
by Davo Smith. The best way to check would be to either do:git diff MOODLE_24_STABLE..MY_BRANCH# this will show all the changes from 2.4 => your custom branchorgitk MOODLE_24_STABLE..MYBRANCH# this...
View ArticleRe: Help for upgrading a custom 2.3 to 2.4 using GIT.
by Rex Lorenzo. Jean, I would also suggest running the PHPunit tests for Moodle to make sure nothing major is broken: http://docs.moodle.org/dev/PHPUnit
View ArticleBug in 1.9 Quiz/Question Scheduled Backups
by Fred Woolard. Realizing that 1.9 is no longer being fixed, there is a problem with scheduled backups (cron) failing to include certain question categories, and hence their associated questions,...
View ArticleRe: Measuring the speed of Moodle
by Rex Lorenzo. Where are you seeing that Moodle stores binary data (e.g. images) as blobs? I haven't seen that in practice.What is the possible bottleneck is that every image on Moodle is served by...
View ArticleRe: Github Compare view question
by Damyon Wiese. Well - im not going to answer very well either but when constructing my git diff urls for the tracker, I build a URL like:...
View ArticleRe: Measuring the speed of Moodle
by Andrew Nicols. Rex is correct - Moodle does not store any binary data in the database, what it does do though is to hash (SHA1) the content of the file. The file is then stored in an appropriate...
View ArticleRe: YUI + shifter
by Sam Hemelryk. First up this is a very worthwhile discussion. Really after reading through this thread I don't think the implementation is in question here yet. I've looked over it and I think there...
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