Writing
Notes on building software — the decisions that age well, the ones that don't, and what I learn in between.
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oh russian text, i thought you had something valuable to share...
but no, you were only clever enough to use your native tongue in an attempt to fool me into publishing your funny, spam comment! thanks to google.com/translate, you were foiled in your plot to...
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How to Import/Export Your Wordpress Blogroll... er, Your Links
It's not immediately apparent how to import/export the links in your Wordpress blogroll. One would expect that the import/export tool, used to backup/restore Wordpress posts and pages would handle...
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How to Check if the Current Logged In User can Edit a Course in MOODLE Using the Has_capability Function
After an hour of fruitless searching through the docs and forums, I finally found an answer to my simple question, of course buried in the depths of the shark infested, murky water that is the...
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Moodle's Most Important Function Gets No Attention
Arguably the most important function in the Moodle API, is the create\course function. One would think... after all Moodle is an LMS. Courses are the bread and butter for course management...
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Recursively Zip Up a Directory while Excluding Certain Files Based on File Extension Type
In the example below, I'm going to zip up a directory that includes images in both PNG and PSD file formats. However, I want to exclude the PSDs because they are huge!
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Uncompress A Bz2 File Using Tar Command
Uncompress a bz2 file using tar command @source http://www.kde.gr.jp/help/doc/kdebase/doc/khelpcenter/faq/HTML/bzip2.html
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Convert Array to Object in PHP
Source: http://www.serversidemagazine.com/php/how-to-convert-array-notation-to-object-notation
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Get Child Categories of Parent Category on Single Post in Wordpress
I was hoping to find a function in the Wordpress API, that goes something like this... But I could not. The result that I did find, from various forums goes something like this... If you're in the...
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How To Flush Your Permalink Structure in Wordpress When Using Taxonomies ...or Wordpress Taxonomies Not Working Instead I See A 404 Page
I didn't know this, but because of a linking problem using custom taxonomies in Wordpress, I was forced to find out. If you create a new taxonomy, it will not work immediately on the front facing...
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Render Partial if File Exists
If you ever want to render a partial but don't want an error thrown you can either check for the existence of the file first or you can catch the error that Rails throws
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My Review of Moodle 1.9 Extension Development
I wrote a review for Joseph Thibault's Moodle News on extension development for Moodle. The book is quite good and I think an essential resource for anyone wanting to develop in Moodle. The book...
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NO Table Cell Spacing Please
Remove cell padding on a table you add the cellspacing attribute and set it to "0". Is there a better way to do this with straight up CSS? Nothing seems to work...
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Offset an Element with Relative Position Property with CSS Without Taking Up Any Space in the Document
Using CSS positioning it's possible to offset an element and collapse its width and height where it would normally appear. Wrapping the content in an absolute positioned element, the space that the...
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Postlearn Job Board
Postlearn is a job board focused on delivering quality jobs listings to people in education.An affiliate program is available to bloggers and site owners in the edu space. Bloggers who participate...
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Workshop Dog
Workshop Dog is a free events calendar for dog training workshops and group lessons.Users can list their training workshops as well as create a business profile. Jobs may be posted to the site for...