Back to work
Got back to work after couple of weeks holiday yesterday (holiday pics!) so spent the last day or so trying to remember what I was actually doing before I went away! None of the notes I made before I went away made any sense to me yesterday morning – but it’s all starting to become clear again!
Have been working a bit more on the Netvibes widget, and there’s now also talk of creating a Facebook widget for MSG – but for now I’ll stick with getting just one widget finished. Also managed to update the MSG BuddyXML service so that it can accept the username and password as part of HTTPBasic authentication – rather than just as get/post parameters (this was the problem I was struggling with a couple of weeks ago). One thing that’s slowing me down slightly at the moment is that our msg.open.ac.uk died over the weekend and we’re awaiting the engineer to fix it up.
A few people seems to have been trying out my Online Users Map block, did find a problem with it though (which is now resolved) – in that my original table name seemed to be too long for some Moodle installations (or more precisely ADODB) – which appear to have a restriction of 28 chars on the table name length.
Also beginning to look at how to manipulate images using PHP, the main functions I need to do is overlay one jpg onto another jpg to create a third image, and create lines for one set of coordinates to another on the image – sure there must be things out there which do this – just need to have a google…
