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Training for teachers
Via Slashdot: "The personal information of thousands of California children and their teachers was open to public view when the school districts issued a generic password to teachers using the system. Until the teacher used the system and changed the generic password to a unique password, anyone was able
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Flock
I'm posting this using the developer edition of Flock. Can we say "overhyped"? There are several additions on top of the core Firefox functionality. The built-in RSS aggregator is nice; so the a built-in blog poster (which doesn't work with Elgg.net yet, but
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Authentication soup
I don't suppose any of the PHP programmers reading this know an easy way to load the content of external pages using HTTP authentication, do you? Aside from in the URL line. That would come in really handy. Meanwhile, I've just made myself the world'
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MySQL - powered by Oracle
Here's an interesting one - the InnoDB component that helps keep MySQL ticking along is now owned by Oracle. MySQL is the most popular database system for web applications, which is why we chose it to power Elgg[1]; Oracle is the most powerful corporate database software vendor
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RSS and other animals
My local install of Elgg now reads in entries from RSS files and aggregates them on a page. A couple of interface tweaks and I'll upload my work to this site, probably over the weekend. Assuming there isn't some kind of almighty programming hiccup, this should
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Windows on the world
Microsoft Windows celebrates its 20th birthday this week. I'd post something really acerbic, but I'm sitting at a Windows 2000 workstation; my laptop at home (on which 90% of the Elgg code was written) runs Windows XP. I have a desktop that dual boots Windows 2000
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BlackboardCT
It's an open secret that I was inspired to write the first draft for Elgg (we'll call it version 0.001) after experiences supporting and programming for one of the closed-source virtual learning environments. I felt, and still feel, that it is unfair for universities to
RSS readers
A full 5% of Elgg.net traffic is from Bloglines. I find that amazing for several reasons. First of all, it's great that people are using the RSS to that extent. Elgg.net got 1.2 million hits in August, so 5% isn't peanuts - and
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Google does RSS
Google Reader: an RSS aggregator done Gmail-style. Buggy as hell, but possibly worth keeping an eye on.
A quick primer on Elgg (the name)
Light-hearted but timely: What does Elgg stand for? It stands for using existing, well-used Internet technologies in an educational setting instead of reinventing the wheel! Oh, wait, you're wanting to know if it's an acronym? It's not. Although if you can make it into
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An open letter to Andrew Orlowski
In reponse to this article in The Register, I sent the following to Andrew this morning: Sir, In response to your question, “how good and bad do you think it will get?”, I think the answer is: “pretty good” – even if I unconditionally agree with your assertion that Web 2.