Ploofle

Title mostly says it all. I needed to make a plugin for Bonnie’s site to use a decent blog (Moodle’s blog system just isn’t cutting it) plus using data from already-registered users. You essentially set up a limited access account to your external db and enter the details into this plugin’s options. There’s also an option to give a custom error message in case of invalid login/pw combinations - in our case it will inform the user that they need to create an account first at the moodle site then come back to login.

We’re planning to combine this with a default user role of author/editor-ish (author with category management permissions, preferably) so that we get the same general functionality of Moodle’s blogs plus comments, better management, RSS, etc. This is my first plugin and I tried to follow general layout conventions of wordpress - hope it works for others, too.

It’s hosted on Wordpress under External Database Authentication. About the only update I may think of doing is somehow disabling users from changing passwords and user info in wordpress, as it will be overwritten by the moodle data anyway…

Tags: DIY, ext_db_auth

I will make…empanadas!

Causal pathway:

Fried pies (at least in the South) are most definitely pies. Empanadas are fried pies, albeit with meat and other goodies. Empanadas are also from the South, just moreso. Therefore, empanadas are pies that count. Bwahahaha…and with a shortening crust, only the bravest shall dare consume them! Despite their wonderful tastiness.

As a side note, while my laptop mostly works, I have discovered that its coffee immersion has also messed up the network/modem port on the back such that it doesn’t work (but wifi, more safely interiorized, does) and that my speakers don’t either (although headphones do). Professional advice: don’t spill liquids near electronics. In case you didn’t read the warning label.

Tags: DIY

Blame melissa! I’m starting a map of food, and we’ll see what monstruous thing comes from there. I only put a few points so far, but they’re zingers. So look away at my wayfaring map.

Tags: DIY

Sakura-con

March 24-26. Precisely ending the day before I return So come visit melissa! You know you want to see som Michael “Piano Squall” Gluck! The picture after the link…is priceless.

Tags: DIY, praxis

Unusually good day for me, other than the constant phone tag with Bonnie :-/

Work was unexpectedly fun - demo’d the Cerberus ticketing thing and people were let loose on it - random shenanigans like creating projects to delegate who should make coffee, who should remind them, and who’s bringing donuts, then I assigned all the tickets to Derek, bwahaha…then Peter learned that he can tell who did that by using the ticket auditing system. So, things being learned. Super cool.

That and the setup we have for building machines is working like a charm - built on a Dell desktop and genericized, and I built a Thinkpad laptop with it flawlessly - about an hour, incl. downloading the image - except for sound card.

Had a croissant and finished some readings, and then went to class where I apparently impressed the presenter with random bits/opinions on community development and so forth, ending up getting an unsolicited business card. super score…

Then back here

Yes, that’s my idea of a good day

Tags: DIY, praxis