Over the week-end I rediscovered Moodle's DEVELOPER debug setting which surfaced many unpleasant warnings. The first kind was removed by following proper programming practices (ahem), the second kind involved a couple of deprecation warnings that reminded me that Moodle is slowly and surely making its way toward 2.0 …

I attended for a couple of hours the Synchronous Hackathon in Tog today. I had vague plans on making progress with the Moodle plug-in, probably related to the unit testing / refactoring of the data crunching methods... Didn't happen, but I did find a new bug, which I managed to fix …

I've ended up a bit discouraged about my Sugar involvement (there's probably a blog post about lessons learnt in there, after I finish processing events in a useful way) so I decided it'd be best to step back for a while and digest things in the background before trying again …

I've been reading "The inmates are running the asylum" lately, and wow, is this book blowing my mind. I was amazed straight from the foreword, where the author states that the problems with the current software development process are due to accountancy, and then actually manages to explain it in …

I discovered this book thanks to Valerie Aurora, looking up her website after hearing her speak at SkyCon '07. It's taken me a while to get around to reading it but it was very worthwhile. I would recommend reading Val's review of it, which I linked above and will link …