Posts Tagged ‘php’
Moodle HQ is hiring
A growing Open Source project means a growing core development team: Moodle HQ is hiring . According to Michael de Raadt's blog post, Right now Moodle is growing, and in response to that, Moodle HQ is growing as well. We’re looking for talented developers to join us in Perth. If you love Moodle; if you love cranking out code; if you love [...]
Development News: Moodle 2.1 to require PHP 5.3 as a minimum
Recently announced by Martin Dougiamas , Moodle HQ (like PHP.net) is dropping use of php 5.2. Future Moodle releases will require PHP 5.3 as a minimum. While this information may not affect the majority of Moodle users, it's nice to know that Moodle is built upon supported web languages (and is not relying on old or outdated versions). To [...]
Aardvark theme for Moodle 2.0 is coming soon
Mary Evans, a contributor of many great themes to the Moodle.org theme repository just posted a screenshot (below) of her adaptation of Aardvark to be compatible with Moodle 2.0. Check out another of Mary's themes called Premium. Aardvark is a great theme for Moodle 1.9, including custom menus and a insert of the student/user's profile [...]
Moodle Coding Sprint Update #php @moodlehelen
Just in case you're down for the developer's sprint this coming weekend (March 20th and 21st), join the Moodle.org discussion about it (and pledge your time) here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=146083. Related: Moodle Core Developers Group: http://moodle.org/user/index.php?id=5&group=172 MoodleMonthly coverage: [...]
Moodle.org seeks developers for a “coding sprint” #php
Moodle.org's community manager, Helen Foster posted a plea for developers to step up and code this coming weekend in the first ever Moodle 2.0 coding sprint (http://helenfoster.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/moodle-2-sprint-this-weekend/): Are you a Moodle developer with some time to spare this weekend? If so, please join our first ever Moodle 2.0 [...]
New Plugin: OpenBiblio
Moodle Monthly hopes to cover all new plugins and modules released at Moodle.org, this is the first such coverage (but there will be more in the future categorized here: http://www.moodlemonthly.com/category/development/modules/) OpenBiblio is a Moodle block that interacts with the OpenBiblio open source library catalog management software. [...]
Redirect Moodle users to a help page (first login)
One barrier to using Moodle is that first time users often don't understand or recognize the interface (the learning curve can be steep). To combat any unfamiliarity with a new interface, ilite (at http://ilite.wordpress.com) created a script that redirects users logging in for the first time to a special page that hosts helpful training and [...]
