Posts made by Howard Miller

Moodle in English -> Hardware and performance -> Loading time of administration notification page -> Re: Loading time of administration notification page

by Howard Miller -
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My big issue with this plugin is that it doesn't check cache performance. That's always my first thing to check. Just about everything is cached in recent Moodle versions and poor performance will kill Moodle.

If you don't have Redis or are thinking "what's the cache?" then start there.
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Moodle in English -> General help -> Can a username be considered a confidential value? -> Re: Can a username be considered a confidential value?

by Howard Miller -
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I can't immediately think of anywhere... but I still think that using a phone number as the username is a really bad idea.

Just because we can't think of anything NOW doesn't mean a change to core code or a new plugin you install wouldn't expose it. I wouldn't go out of my way to make the username super secret and I doubt any other developer would either.
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Moodle in English -> General developer forum -> Plugin upgrade -> new field in existing table -> Re: Plugin upgrade -> new field in existing table

by Howard Miller -
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You probably want this...

https://moodledev.io/general/development/tools/xmldb

and this...

https://moodledev.io/docs/4.4/guides/upgrade

Particularly the bit about upgrade.php. You should also understand that the XMLDB editor has a function to create the code you need to put in upgrade.php.
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