http://hackerdan.com Daniel Servos's Development Blog Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:50:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After having tones of trouble with sound drivers and getting my mic to work i have finally been able to get sound in my screen cast and it uploaded. You can view the flash version of the screen cast here: http://compsci.ca/~dan/screencast.swf This screen cast is a demo of the first version of ... http://hackerdan.com/gsoc/screen-cast/ Today is the official pencil down date for the 2008 Google Summer of Code and is the last day code can be submitted to be counted in the final evaluation. This is also the week i move back to Thunder Bay to start a new term at Lakehead University, ... http://hackerdan.com/gsoc/end-of-my-summer-of-code/ Google Summer of Code 2008 is coming to an end with the "Suggested 'pencils down' date" on the 11th and the "Firm 'pencils down' date." on the 18th and yet i still feel like there is so much that could be added to my project. Whats done: report/stats gradebook plug-in works and ... http://hackerdan.com/gsoc/gsoc-2008-comming-to-an-end/ CONTRIB-497 *Added more visualizations *Added selector UI Widget for flex/flare visualization *Refactored some of flex actionscript code. *Added defaults for selected group and items in visualizations. *Improved removal of nodes and edges when an item or group is deselected in a legend. *Fixed a memory leak realting to the removal and addtion of nodes. *Added more options ... http://hackerdan.com/uncategorized/cvs-contrib-497-2august08/ I have finished two more visualizations based on the grade distribution. They are: Grade Distribution by Group in a bar graph: Grade Distribution by Item in a bar graph: I have also added a new user interface widget witch i call a selector that looks like a legend however only one item ... http://hackerdan.com/uncategorized/more-visualizations-and-a-widget/ This post is a break form development news on the Moodle stats plug-ins to talk about a new DNS vulnerability that could affect all Rogers users in Canada (or at least Ontario). Update: euphoracle from the #CompSci.ca IRC room called up Rogers tech support and after getting threw the first few ... http://hackerdan.com/tech/rogers-dns-vulnerability/ I have updated the test site with the new visualization! CONTRIB-497 *Added new visualization, Grade Distribution *Fixed some minor bugs *Made abstract visualization class for creating visualizations by making classes witch extend it. *Made visual_settings.php witch takes a visualization class and truns it in to XML witch flex can read in. *Made flex visualization application read ... http://hackerdan.com/uncategorized/cvs-contrib-497-contrib-496-24july08/ I have finally been able to get another visualization working for the report/visual plug-in. This one is a Grade Distribution line graph that can show the distribution of grades for any group or item in a course including aggregated items like course total (a students overall mark in a course). ... http://hackerdan.com/moodle/grade-distribution/ Well looking for the Moodle library file, "weblib.php", i came across an oddly named file called "womenslib.php". After wondering what kind of library could possible be called that and what could it do for a few seconds i opened it up and found the fallowing code: <?php include('../config.php'); redirect('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_liberation'); ?> This file also seems to ... http://hackerdan.com/moodle/moodle-easter-egg/ One of the requirements of my project is to develop the stats and visual plug-in for Moodle 2.0, a version of Moodle witch is still under development. This means that if done right my plug-in will be compatible with the new release of Moodle once it comes out as well ... http://hackerdan.com/open-source/bugs-patches-and-open-source/