Tag Archives: PHP

Using XAMPP web server

Posted on Monday 5 September 2011 by

As we all (should) know testing out software on live environments isn’t particularly sensible. For the last five years in the office, and longer at home, I’ve been running XAMPP from Apache Friends as a test server on my PC. … Continue reading →

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Developing a new theme for Moodle 2.0

Posted on Friday 8 April 2011 by

At the start of the current academic session (2010-2011) the University introduced Moodle as its preferred learning management system (LMS), also called a ‘virtual learning environment’ (VLE) and began the move away from WebCT (which is now owned by former … Continue reading →

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Using Yahoo! Pipes to filter an RSS feed

Posted on Friday 3 September 2010 by

I’m currently working on a redesign of the University’s research homepage which involves a requirement to pull in three RSS feeds: Recent research outputs (from the PURE research portal, which hasn’t gone public yet) Recent research activities (from the PURE … Continue reading →

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