The latest info about eLearning with Chamilo
In this article, we’ll talk about managing an LMS when all institutional assignments handed in by students have to be handed in through the LMS, and what that means if you have several thousand students. This case is based on…
This article can be considered an update of our first article on installing Chamilo (on a Raspberry Pi B+). This time, we are testing it with Raspberry 3, as of the 1st of April 2017 (no joke intended). Last time,…
This is a short note for ourselves, but it might help others considering the (new for now) rules of Google indexing of non-mobile sites. Drupal 6 does not really provide all the stuff that would be really useful to switch…
This article is an extension of the previous article about storing sessions in Memcached with PHP. Using Memcached for sessions storage is generally a matter of speed (storing them in memory is faster than on disk) and of scalability (using…
Ever wondered where internet (and general telecommunications) cables were laid out in the ocean? This map, available on Level3 website, could help you out. This could help you out understanding, for example, how much delay you can expect between Peru…
While reading about Doctrine’s cache mechanism (which applies to other stuff than database queries, by the way), my eye was caught by a little message at the end (last section) about cache slams. I have used cache mechanisms extensively over…
Did you know…? As a “take away” information taken from this post https://gist.github.com/nikic/6699370 (by famous PHP core developer @nikita_ppv), it appears like the @ sign in PHP (used to “hide” errors, as the “error-suppression operator” it is) also disables the…
If you’re like me and you’ve developed a CDN distribution for your website’s content (while waiting for SPDY to be widely adopted and available in mainstream distributions), you might have noted that the Googlebot is frequently scanning your CDNs, and…
The default installation of Varnish 3 on Debian-based system (including Ubuntu) will set a default timeout for sending files to users (i.e. for users files download) to 60 seconds. To change this limit, it is necessary to update your default…
(Read the update below before starting to copy-paste) To install Xhprof on PHP5.4 on Ubuntu (assuming you’ve already got PHP5.4 from Andrej or somewhere safe) in order to measure the load of Chamilo 1.10 dev (you need to have a…
