Jun 19
Early this week I have set up a Moodle 2.0 beta server for wiki 2.0 testing.
http://potato.lsi.upc.edu/moodle20beta/
It still in development so not all features are implemented yet.
Any comment or feedback will be welcome.
Aug 18
I’ve been very busy these last weeks because GSoC and other projects I’ve been working on. But I’m so close to the end, so close to my deserved holidays!!
Simple LTI Module for Moodle is nearly finished and ready to send to Google. I implemented a basic Moodle module following Simple LTI spec (an IMS Global Learning Consortium’s LTI 2.0 approach) so there will be a lot of work to do in this new application next months.
Dr. Chuck (my SoC mentor, and Developer Network Coordinator at IMS and Sakai guru) has really good ideas but, unfortunately Moodle core is not as versatile as Sakai. I don’t want to hack Moodle core to develop some of this great functionalities. I prefer to dedicate the rest of the year to design and implement some of this features in a smart way, not in the tricky one.
There isn’t an official release of our module but you can check it out from our code repository (you will need a git client). I have created a new course a DFWikiLABS site called Moodle’s IMS Simple LTI Module where you will be able to find some more information and docs and a link to a test site where you will be able to see Simple LTI Module and Filter in action.
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Jul 23
A long, long time ago we made a great project and we forgot about it.
Moodle reports show all systems logs in a table. It’s great but what can you do with that??
Nearly a year ago, Javi de la Torre integrated SIMILE timeline into Moodle.
So instead of see a plenty of data in a table in many pages, you can see all logs in a timeline inside a single page. Using mouse you can scroll along time and popup some bubbles for extra information.
I created a course in our Moodle for this project. As soon as I have some minutes I will configure it to give access all users to an online demo.
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Jul 10
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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Jul 10
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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Jul 04
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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Jun 23
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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May 29
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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May 19
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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May 13
Ludo has created a new blog in this domain: Google at Barcelona?. He wants to initiate a discussion about why Barcelona must be chosen by Google to open a new office.
I’m going to add my opinion to this initiative, but first of all I would like to introduce I little bit my situation and the computer science labour market at Spain.
Few years ago I got my Diploma in Computer Software at FIB – UPC and now I about to get a Degree in Informatics Engineering. Last two years I’ve been working at university on the command of Ludo as a developer and researcher. I like to research, investigate and innovate with our software. I love to participate in this kind of projects, as a developer, as an analyst or as a designer.
At this moment, at Spain, the major part of the software companies are IT consultants. I don’t want to work in this kind of companies, don’t want to jump from project to project. When I start a new line of development I’m always very involved in it, I like to watch my applications grow and improve.
For all this reasons, several people that studied with me is staying at our Faculty, working at research groups and developing open source software. For instance, Juli is working at Computer Architecture Department and contributing to NetBSD project. Joan, with some friends, won a Business Ideas Contest and created his own company, Dexma Sensors. Jordi is the second classic adventure games fan in the world (I’m the first 
) and he is contributing to ScummVM project to add compatibility with mythical Sierra games (King’s Quests, Larrys, etc).
These are only three examples of people here in Barcelona that are doing great things. There are much more!!!
Marc said in his first post the following sentence:
Thinking about it, Barcelona is the favorite destiny of European Students in the Erasmus and Galileo programs (I don’t have the data, but I’m pretty sure ), the IT companies here are full of consultants from the north of Europe who choose to live here…
I’m able to add more people to the group that has chosen Barcelona. Few day ago I was listening the radio and I heard the news that Barcelona is the city of Spain with more congresses every year, more than Madrid or Valencia. Since the CCIB (Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona) opened the number of conventions has risen very fast. You have to wait more than a year to reserve a conference room.
This is another fact to take into account. Barcelona is becoming a center of research and knowledge and Google must be here!
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