http://tech.solin.eu/ 2012-02-06T02:15:14+01:00 http://tech.solin.eu/ http://tech.solin.eu/lib/tpl/monobook/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-01-26T16:14:50+01:00 onno http://tech.solin.eu/doku.php?id=ror:rails_related_issues&rev=1327590890&do=diff This section is mostly about non-Rails and non-Ruby issues, but they're closely related. Character encoding in Rails and DB migrations See part 2 for solution of troubles described in this section If you have an MS SQL Server database which must be migrated to MySQL, chances are good that you'll run into some nasty character encoding issues. MS SQL Server usually encodes all textual data in latin1 (ISO 8859-1, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO-8859-1). You can, of course, use this encoding… text/html 2012-01-25T10:24:03+01:00 onno http://tech.solin.eu/doku.php?id=linux:git&rev=1327483443&do=diff Git is a version control system (like SVN and CSV). Among Git's many powerful features, these were most attractive to me: * Git makes it easy to create branches. The idea is that you have a master branch that's always in a “releasable” state, while you add new features on a separate branch. Once your new feature is finished, you merge the “new feature branch” into the master branch. * It's very easy to specify which files and directories git should ignore. * Git has a “bisect” feature whi… text/html 2012-01-22T11:06:06+01:00 onno http://tech.solin.eu/doku.php?id=linux:apache_webserver&rev=1327226766&do=diff Apache - Part 1 Installing the Apache webserver is pretty straightforward. Do not use Apache 2.x, but instead rely on Apache 1.3.x. See the php.org website why. (The Apache 2 architecture is just not safe enough for php in production environments). text/html 2012-01-19T16:58:30+01:00 menno http://tech.solin.eu/doku.php?id=moodle:enrollment&rev=1326988710&do=diff Here's the official story. Users take up a specific role in a 'context', e.g. they are student (role) in a course (context). Contexts are divided into levels: From lib/accesslib.php define(‘CONTEXT_SYSTEM’, 10); define(‘CONTEXT_PERSONAL’, 20); define(‘CONTEXT_USER’, 30); define(‘CONTEXT_COURSECAT’, 40); define(‘CONTEXT_COURSE’, 50); define(‘CONTEXT_GROUP’, 60); define(‘CONTEXT_MODULE’, 70); define(‘CONTEXT_BLOCK’, 80); text/html 2012-01-17T21:29:14+01:00 onno http://tech.solin.eu/doku.php?id=moodle:using_soda_to_create_new_moodle_modules&rev=1326832154&do=diff Overview Soda is a Moodle plugin to develop new modules. Soda does two things: * It constructs all your standard module functions dynamically: you don't have to set up a complete lib.php file anymore for each new module. * Soda provides you with a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for your module, eliminating a lot of complexity.