Martin Dougiamas

My Moodle has definitely been languishing without attention for a long time and there's some really cool ideas here, well done!

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE it if one of you guys would put your hand up to be the ongoing maintainer for the core version and develop something beautiful for Moodle 2.0 (with community feedback). I can create a new component in the tracker and a new forum here in Using Moodle for this.

It's a little related to the general navigation and blocks discussions going on overall, but I think these are obvious goals for My Moodle:

• it must be customisable by the user to show as little or as much as they want
• it should be generic so it can be used by all Moodle institutions (this means working with the community to develop consensus where possible, otherwise options for different features)
• it should be efficient on CPU and RAM

My own vision for this page was that it should be 'combined' with the user profile page, perhaps as two tabs to switch between:

• the public profile view that you create and personalise for OTHER people to see, deciding what they can see, adding rss blocks, choosing colors etc
• the private profile view for yourself, which is more like a dashboard portal page that you customise as an overview. Some of the current buttons and tabs on the user profile would work better here, I think.

It would be just like Home vs Profile on Facebook, for example.

Yeah, I would regard the fact that site backups are showing path info like that as a bug that needs fixing, as well as the display of a user name. (The deletion of the backups is normal and would have happened on the next cron anyway.)

To avoid anything like that happening again, I think we should modify the function mtrace() to not output any information at all when the script is called from the web. I've filed a bug for it: MDL-18370

It's because this script needs to be called automatically every 15 minutes or so ... and since many people don't have command line access then calling the URL from outside Moodle is often the only way that people can do it (eg on a cpanel host, using wget).

For this reason it doesn't require authentication. It's not meant to be called manually by a logged-in user (though it doesn't hurt if you do). There are a bunch of security mechanisms in that script.

Still, I'd recommend you either turn on cronclionly (calling the script from the command line is more efficient and won't clog your web logs) or add a password with cronremotepassword. See "Site policies" in your admin settings.

I would totally prefer Flash for simplicity on clients.

But: can Flash record a sound a locally as a file and upload it to a server via http POST? I think it can't but would be ecstatic to hear otherwise.

On the other hand see Nanogong for a fully-realised version using Java in Moodle.

Aside: apart from browser history I've never seen any web site actually even attempt to implement true breadcrumbs. I used to care a lot more about this terminology and insist on navbar but does anyone really get confused by the misuse of the term any more? I don't know, but I suspect not.

We could call them "Location Breadcrumbs" with a bit of "Attribute Breadcrumbs" when it comes to the Activity type. (see Wikipedia article on breadcrumbs)

(I've given up explaining the hacker/cracker distinction too :P )