Shocktober 2013: C.H.U.D.

@saraherron Nope. Another on the "never watched this, hope it lives up to the decades of hype" pile. =)— Justin Filip (@jfilip) October 4, 2013 Last night Robin and I watched the 1985 movie C.H.U.D. It was definitely one of those movies I remember seeing in the video rental stores...


Shocktober 2013: Creature from the Black Lagoon

Two years ago Robin and I tried to pull off Shocktober. The goal: 31 horror–or, at least, somewhat related to the genre–films for the 31 days in October. We only made it through 29 last time but we’re planning on trying to do it again this year. This is specifically...


Moodle performance testing -- 2.4.6 vs. 2.5.2 vs. 2.6dev

Yesterday I posted some updated performance information about currently released versions of Moodle and Tim Hunt from The Open University asked me if I could run the same tests on the latest in-development Moodle 2.6 code. So I went ahead and re-ran my automated tests using the same setup as...


Moodle performance analysis revisted (now with MariaDB)

This is a follow-up to my previous post on this subject. Pleases refer to that post for the testing environment setup and also the scenarios that were tested. Below I will outline what has changed since those results were gathered and the problems I was addressing with these changes. I...


Moodle 2.4.5 vs. 2.5.1 performance and MUC APC cache store

NOTE: The graphs within this post have been updated based on the automated testing I created. The new work is explained in my new post, Moodle performance analysis revisted (now with MariaDB). As of this writing, the team at Moodle HQ (along with lots of volunteers from around the world)...