Martin Dougiamas

Put text in the description on Admin >> Site Settings, it gets used as a page description even if you can't see it on the page.

I do think that a separate forum would cause some confusion and overlap for us ... however, how about a New Developer FAQ?

eg http://docs.moodle.org/en/Developer_FAQ

Feel free to start it off with all your questions, that would be most helpful.

Thanks, Gustav!

I think we converted everything in the core code but there will be hacks and third-party code that could be subject to problems if you have register_globals turned off on your server (as you should! )

Probably in the next version we'll remove require_variable() and optional_variable() completely (or at least make them print an error like "This code is not compatible with Moodle!").

Finally, note that if you really have problems (unlikely) then you can add this to your config.php to get the bad old behaviour back:

$CFG->enableglobalshack = true;

Yes, the trashing of the user session is intentional (for security).

I don't know why you'd be getting different behaviour from the external wget/manual method vs the internal php method. It's the same script.

Yes, if you make multiple journals you can pose a questions/frame for each entry, thus scaffolding them through the course. If they (or you) click on "Journals" in the nav bar you will see all of them on one page ... it's designed for reflection.