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Introduction In 2017 I developed permanent Tinnitus, which for me is a constant noise I hear (more left than right)

16th July 2021 Gareth Barnard

Behat – part two

In the previous part, I covered getting up and running with running acceptance tests sequentially and using a Ramdisk to speed things up. In this second part, we’ll look at running tests in parallel, specifying a custom theme to test on and writing your own tests.

Elearning World Moodle Theme

16th June 2021 Gareth Barnard

Theme selector block

Have you ever wanted to compare themes easily? In “What’s in a screenshot” (March 2018), I briefly mentioned my ‘Theme selector’ block that I took over from John Syrinek. It gives you the ability to switch between themes quickly so that you can make the comparisons you want.

Elearning World Moodle Technical

16th May 2021 Gareth Barnard

Behat – part one

Running, let alone writing the Moodle acceptance tests is a bit tricky and complicated, and they can take ages. But what if there was a way to speed things up? In this first of a two part post, we’ll look at getting up and running with running tests one at a time.

Elearning World Moodle Technical

16th April 2021 Gareth Barnard

What is a Byte anyway?

We all use technology on a regular basis and we know that our electronic computing technology is based on bytes. But what exactly is a ‘Byte’ and why does it matter so much?

Elearning World LMS Moodle Theme UX

16th March 2021 Gareth Barnard

Small little details

Sometimes its the small details in life that can make all the difference.

Elearning World Moodle UX

16th February 2021 Gareth Barnard

Three-state logic

When I first implemented the setting reset functionality of Collapsed Topics (CT), it allowed you to reset the settings of the course to the defaults as set by the administrator at the time. The reset functionality applies to the current course or can be applied to all courses by the administrator if desired. But this has the downside that when the defaults change then whole groups of settings need to be ‘reset’. What if you wanted to be able to only have one setting track the default? This is where ‘three-state’ logic comes in.