Archive for June, 2009

• Elgg – All entities must be public – Remove friends and everyone else as options during inupt

  Date: 2009.06.21 | Category: access, allplugin, elgg, friends, primary school teaching, public, site access | Response: 0

  Wow possibly the worst topic ever for one of my posts

  This is relevant if
  a) You use Elgg
  b) You want all users to only be able to post as public
  c) You have the allpublic elgg plugin
  If not you won’t be interested..
  Basically, the array that holds the values takes 0,1,2 then you drop out 0,1 (this is default behavior in the allpublic plugin).
  For some weird reason this leaves behind “Friends” as an option, this is not desirable behavior and the fix is to remove -2 ( I know wth were they thinking) from the array. Use this line of code in the allplugin access.php:
  unset($vars['options'][-2]);

  Put that with the rest of the unset’s in the plugin.

  Full file path will be mod/allpublic/views/default/input

  As another note, if -2 isn’t right for you just echo out the $key value from the array like..

  {$option . $key} then you will get the name of the option and the key/id.

• Are you a true Bradfordian?

  Date: 2009.06.21 | Category: bradford, city academy stars, ctc, ctc stars, dixons, facebook, stars, stars 09 | Response: 0

  http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=87369789523&ref=ts

  If you aren’t at that, consider yourself fail.

• WPMU WordPress Multi User and Photo Peach / PhotoPeach

  Date: 2009.06.18 | Category: Photo Peach, PhotoPeach, Primary Blogger, WordPress, wordpress multi User, WPMU, WPMU Photopeach | Response: 0

  You need to extend the embed array in kses.php to allow for the additional param’s passed by PhotoPeach..

  Something like this..
  ‘embed’ => array (

  ‘style’ => array (),

  ‘type’ => array (),

  ‘id’ => array (),

  ‘height’ => array (),

  ‘width’ => array (),

  ‘allowscriptaccess’ => array (),

  ‘allowfullscreen’ => array (),

  ‘flashvars’ => array (),

  ‘movie’ => array (),

  ‘photos’ => array (),

  ‘src’ => array ()),

  Look out for ‘embed’ => array (

  this is where you add your params then close your array with

  ),

  dont forget to close with ,

  This took me an hour or so to figure out how to do so hopefully you will be able to do it quicker.

  
  

  “Hey I’m Ben, Community Guy at #Photopeach. Just wanted to say thanks for your WPMU embed fix and we’re adding it to our FAQ.”

• Wireless solutions for Primary Schools

  Date: 2009.06.18 | Category: ICT, Primary SChool Wireless, WIreless network, Wireless Networks, Wireless Solution | Response: 0

  UPDATE

  
  

  This video is now available on my youtube channel

  
  Hi all, on Tuesday and Wednesday next week(25th and 26th of June) I’m doing a presentation aimed at Primary Schools who currently have and/or are thinking of getting wireless devices/networks installed. The agenda for the presentation is:

  
  
  1.The wireless network

  2.The wireless learner

  3.Wireless security

  4.Wireless life span

  5.How much wireless coverage do I need?

  6.Wireless costs

  7.Additional Considerations IE storage.

  8.Wireless safety

  9.Questions

  
  

  The event is being run by Education Bradford’s Curriculum ICT team and details can be found here

  
  

  Slides and a Webcast will be online shortly after (Probably by Thursday) – These will be available to everyone.

  
  

  Tuesday: Greenhead CLC

  Wednesday: Challenge CLC

  
  

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  UPDATE

  
  

  This video is now available on my youtube channel

• Are people more efficient on wednesdays?

  Date: 2009.06.16 | Category: Uncategorized | Response: 0

  We seem to get about a 2/3% average increase in hits to all of our sites on Wednesdays. This has been a trend for over a year now. Obviously Saturday and Sunday are very low hits as all of our sites are early years & educational.