Today was a bit of a mixed bag and I started off with some ePrints minor customisation work. Nothing major so far, but that is certain on the horizon, its just cosmetic changes more than anything.

I also had some more Moodle fun configuring my box to connect to the internal Moodle Oracle Development server. Looking through the config file I came across this at the bottom:

// MAKE SURE WHEN YOU EDIT THIS FILE THAT THERE ARE NO SPACES, BLANK LINES,
// RETURNS, OR ANYTHING ELSE AFTER THE TWO CHARACTERS ON THE NEXT LINE.
?>

Basically instead of just not putting the final close for PHP, they put it in with a warning. I used to be in the habit of doing this however increasingly I’ve stopped putting it at the end of files for the simple fact it isn’t required and using it can cause issues, which is what the above is causing. I’ve also discovered that Moodle has some serious memory issues: it can use up to 15MB to render a simple page – this is one hungry application!

Yesterday I tried to grab some money from my bank account only to find that my NAB debit card had expired. This is weird because I didn’t think I had received a new card. Tripping off to the bank today during lunch time revealed that due to the bush fires in Victoria the bank hadn’t sent me the card. Whilst I was there I also double checked that they had the right address on file which they do. They’ve extended this morning and believe that I should get card this week.