I have an old Lenovo X220 i5 chip laptop with a 12 inch screen that cost about £200 three years ago. It was keeping it for the very rare occasion I needed to use windows, but it was so slow as to be almost unusable.

I bumped the RAM from 8Gb to 16GB (£22) , which was very easy to do even for a software person like me. Now it is a very serviceable general laptop.

Have since installed Ubuntu and will be seeing how it works for web development.

#hardware #moodledev #lenovolaptop #ram

There is a new VSCode plugin for Moodle Developers at

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LMSCloud.mdlcode

It has been created by people who really know Moodle and has some very interesting features. One that caught my eye was highlighting unused strings in the lang files. See screenshot for more features.

The release page says

“This extension is currently in development; all premium features are available for free until November 2023.”

#moodle #edtech #moodledev #vscode

Advice for new Moodle Devs

"Learning how to code in Moodle involves a lot of learning by example and reading other people's source code including Moodle core code. If you have a particular type of plugin in mind that you would like to create, it's recommended that you start by finding a plugin which provides similar functionality and use the process outlined above to clone it. Then customize it to suit your needs."
https://moodledev.io/general/development/gettingstarted

#moodle #edtech #moodledev

There are a lot of introductory level Moodle development tutorials but the people at Mukudu cover some more advanced topics. This 15 minute video on using the cache system is a good example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltyX9CY6u7o&t=515s
#moodle #edtech #moodledev