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Ann skips bail. Cue forensics puzzle.

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Found a website and a forensics contest yesterday quite by accident. I was waiting for somebody before going out for the night and I thought this might be a little fun while I waited. Now the contest had closed and

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All configuration variables in Moodle code – Part two

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Earlier we looked at how you can extract a list of all the $CFG variables in your Moodle code. Now that’s not of much use! We need to know where in the code all these variables hide. I feel some spooky awk a

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Searching compressed Apache logs

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From time to time things tend to go wrong and systems tend to go crazy. Sometimes these errors are more of nuisance than anything else, an intermittent annoyance you’d prefer not to investigate — trawling through logs is a pain in

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Common translation errors in Moodle language packs

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If you have ever had to deal with language packs you will know how much of a pain they can be. I regularly interact with 9 Moodle language packs and I don’t like doing that much. For some reason, can’t

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All configuration variables in Moodle code?

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Sometimes Moodle introduces some nice new configuration variables and I like to make sure that I know what they are and where they are. So to begin my investigation without heading off to the web I use the following command

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