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Blogging Backlog

troycoon — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:50:09 +0000

It is strange how fast you can build a blog backlog. There are so many times that I think to myself “I really need to blog about that ” or ” that would make a great blog post” but when it comes time to do some blogging I just stare blankly at the screen and say ” what was I going to blog about” .

I hope that you the readers, if I have any that is, will bear with me as I clean out the clutter of my thoughts and get up to speed on my blogging. I have so many projects and thoughts to post, sometimes finding the quite time to blog is the hardest part. I goal is to be able to provide 1 new post a day, that should be enough that within a couple of months I will be totally caught up.

Blog Comments

michael.stahlman — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:31:08 +0000

In our eagerness to get a blog section up on the site, we failed to notice the Wordpress setting that required site registration to blog… oops. We have now disabled that so anyone is able to comment without registration.

Fixing ‘Choices’ activity in Moodle 1.9

michael.stahlman — Fri, 30 May 2008 03:34:47 +0000

I recently had to fix an installation of Moodle 1.9. The Choices activity provides a question and a set of answers to select from for the students. Unfortunately, version 1.9 was available in Fantastico and the options were not showing in any of the Choices activities. There is a new version of Moodle available, which it may be fixed, but for this version, the file mod/choice/lib.php must be modified to get it working. There is a line like this:

if (isset($text) && isset($allresponses[$optionid])) {

This line must be changed to this:

if (isset($text)) {

I’m sure this is probably fixed in the new versions, but for people who use Fantastico through Bluehost, this must be done for Choices to work.

New Shiny Gallery Thing

michael.stahlman — Tue, 27 May 2008 01:55:47 +0000

I found a new flash interface for videos and pictures that I decided to integrate with the gallery and eventually for videos we post. It is currently implemented on the home page, showing the latest uploads to the photo gallery. I also plan on using an alternate version for showing images of projects in the blog. Like this:

If you want to view the full-size pictures, you can click on the right arrow beside the picture names, but your pop-up blocker must be disabled for this website.

Geeky Movies Section

michael.stahlman — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:24:22 +0000

We now have a new section on the main page for geek movies. Soon, I will try to expand this section for more information and a section to comment about the movies.

Website Updates

michael.stahlman — Sat, 17 May 2008 12:23:13 +0000

I am glad to say that the website is finally getting a needed update. There is a lot more content and it is becoming more organized. Keep watching for more changes. Current changes include:

More web links
Updated blog interface
Many more project pictures
New RSS feeds
An FAQ section
New polls
Added calendar events
Redesign of logo