The safe, expandable Drobo™ storage solution protects your data against a hard drive crash, yet can expand dynamically at any time in just seconds. With nothing to configure or manage, Drobo is now the ideal solution for primary storage as well as backup.

That’s what people from Data Robotics, Inc say about this great gadget.

We have bought one and plugged to our Mac mini to hold all our code and docs. I was going to write about how it works a little more but… a video is much better!

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Tags: darth vader, DFWikiLABS, drobo, mac mini, potato, potato.lsi.upc.edu

This week I configured a new server: Our Darth Potato mini-server.

I’m setting up some instances of Trac to manage all our projects. I hope that we could start using it right now with some minor issues and make the most of it from next September with new projects.

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Tags: darth vader, DFWikiLABS, mac mini, potato, potato.lsi.upc.edu, Trac

Course is over and all students taught by my Ludo have presented their final projects. Congratulations! You all made a great job, I’m glad to have been working with you last months.

• David & Ferran, working on Moodle API and WebServices Architecture
• Gonzalo, working on NWiki development
• Usoa, studying all our projects and designing how to organize all of them with Trac and git.

Thanks and congratulations.

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I’m back to Barcelona after 3 day at Salamanca.

It has been a great trip. People from Peñaranda de Bracamonte and specially people from CITA (Centro Internacional de Tecnologías Avanzadas) have been so warm and friendly.

Thank you very much for your invitation. See you all at Barcelona MoodleMoot.

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• XAMPP
• Moodle 1.9
• Firebug
• New Module Template
• Social Bookmarking Activity Template

Default MySQL admin user: root
Defalut admin password: blank

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I’m going to be at Salamanca next 3 days.

My boss mislead me to teach a course about Moodle development, so tomorrow evening I’m getting a train to Madrid. I’ll be out few days but I’ll upload all stuff (slides, code, etc) to this blog ASAP. My speech is on Wednesday, today is Monday, I haven’t started preparing it, poker game tonight, mmmm…. yes, ASAP.

I’m going to explain most relevant Moodle libreries, such weblib.php or dmllib.php, modules architechture, XMLDB and capabilities. I’m going to use newmodule to make an introduction and our Social Bookmarking activity as a case of study. I supose I’m going to replace some lines of code by TODOS and ask to the public to fill the gaps.

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I’ve been very busy last weeks preparing my exams so this blog has been a little bit “unattended”. Last Friday I released a new version of our Moodle Social Bookmarking Activity and I hadn’t time to say it to anybody, neither to my boss. (Hello, Marc!! I’m at my office. Where are you? On holidays??? )

As you know, download if available here.

Fixed bugs and other issues:

• Activity description allows a larger text.
• I fixed some issues at activity logging.
• Moodle API for managing tags changed and I adapted my code (but I forgot about deleting tags…. solved)
• I removed the weird “ssds” from page titles… No comments.
• Something else??? I can’t remember… We clearly need a tracker!!

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Tags: 2008062001, Bookmarks, del.icio.us, DFWikiLABS, module, Moodle, new release, social activity

I have released version 2008052901 of this Moodle module.

You can download it at Morfeo. Remember that this module is compatible with Moodle 1.9 and not with its older versions.

Fixed bugs:

• Not saving some data at activity instance update

New features:

• New activity description box over the navigation tabs

Enjoy it! I’ll be working to improve it. Thanks for your bug reports and suggestions.

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Tags: 2008052901, Bookmarks, del.icio.us, DFWikiLABS, module, Moodle, new release, social activity

A couple of days ago I received the Google SoC gift. Beautiful Code from O’Reilly. This is not a conventional book about hacking techniques, advanced programming or software engineering, it’s about writing beautiful code, readable code and structured programs.

Thirty-eight master coders where asked to discuss about the most beautiful piece of code they ever read/write.

Thank you very much, Google! I’ll read ASAP.

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Tags: Beautiful Code, google, o'reilly, SOC

Today I spent few minutes fixing some bugs of our social bookmarking module for Moodle.

I packed all code in a zip file that you can download from Morfeo.

I seize the opportunity to explain one trick about this module. You can enable link preview using websnapr. I included some javascripts in our package that you can configure in a minute.

You only need to get a developer key from websnapr web site and insert it into /mod/bookmarks/preview/previewbubble.js.

var developerKey = 'your developer key';

Our activity looks cool with this script. Thank you guys from websnapr for let us using it, you are doing a great work.

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Tags: Bookmarks, del.icio.us, DFWikiLABS, Moodle, morfeo, release, social activity