Change Drush command annotations with an alterer Service instead of overriding an entire command.
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Rate Limited APIs
I’ve been working with a Rate Limited API recently where the rate is ridiculously small for the application. Being a poor dev without bacon all I can afford is the free API key…. and of course the library that I’m using to access the API has no knowledge of how to handle rate limited APIs. I came up with an idea to inject rate limitations via the configuration of the API key. It only took a minor modification to the API wrapper library to recognize that the api key could be a Proc. Pull Request to the library author; rate limiter built; all is right with the world.
ChromeOS 117 brings Material You to ChromeOS
Google is rolling out ChromeOS 117, and it’s a very big update for Chromebooks that adds Material You, as well as other usability enhancements. A pretty big update to ChromeOS, and the Material You is definitely welcome – perhaps it fixes up some of the issues I had with ChromeOS when I reviewed it a few months ago. The quick settings panel has been completely redesigned, too, this update adds specific colour correction settings for people with certain eye conditions, and a whole lot more. The update will roll out over the coming days.
Functionality with Moodle – September update
by Carles Aguiló.
Hello Moodlers,
We just had an impressive user conference in Barcelona, and the engagement by and towards our integrations was incredible!
1. Moodlemoot Global 2023
The conference brought together 700 people from all over the world, and commercial integrations supported the conference by sponsoring it and being there to hear and talk to our users. From the 26 sponsors, 8 of them were part of our Certified Integrations’ group and 14 more were tools that connect to Moodle, so all in all, an amazing contribution to this beautiful get-together!
You can find out about all these tools at moodlemoot.org/our-sponsors and about our Certified Integrations at moodle.com/certified-integrations
2. Plugin directory
We have started work on the inclusion of LTI integrations and other integration types in or alongside our plugin directory. The final shape that this will take is still unknown, but if you’d like to share feedback with us regarding this, we’ll be very happy to hear from you at technology-partners@moodle.com.
3. Certified Integration Partner Day
Besides our user conference, we also had our very first Certified Integration Partner Day last week. It was fantastic to exchange with a group of passionate advocates of educational technology, some of which are open source, all of which support the Moodle project. A few great ideas came out of this extended meeting, and also a lot of exchanges that make our work stronger and more resilient to the ever changing nature of technology and education.
Here is proof of the fantastic team of people that constitute our Certified Integrations, together with three of our extraordinary Product Leadership team: Marie Achour, Brett Dalton and Matt Porritt.
4. Did anyone say generative AI yet?
Obviously, as AI became hot a few months ago, a few companies contacted us with ideas and suggestions that we’ve never heard of again. However, there are two great exceptions to that: Nolej.io has started creating a Moodle plugin for their automatic course creation tool and DataCurso.com, developed by the Moodle Partner Industria e-Learning, is a tool to support course creation with a pedagogical approach.
That’s it for this month, I hope you’re having a great back-to-school in the Northern hemisphere
Salsa Digital: Salsa Digital and amazee.io secure new contract with the Australian Department of Finance for GovCMS
Media release Canberra, 27 Sept, 2023 – Salsa Digital and amazee.io (a Mirantis company) are honoured to announce a three-year contract to provide a whole-of-government, open source content management system and web hosting service for the GovCMS program . See GovCMS announcement GovCMS approached the market for the third generation of GovCMS with an emphasis on maintaining the resilience, security and stability of the current platform balanced with new innovations. “As the incumbent, Salsa Digital in strong collaboration with our partner amazee.io, wanted to make sure we weren’t complacent,” said Alfred Deeb, Salsa Digital Founding Director and Open Government Advocate.