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Converting Known sitemap plugin to composer install

Converting Known sitemap plugin to composer install

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Another quick one before I head out for my government mandated single bit of exercise outside of my cell.

By popular demand, I’ve converted the Known sitemap.xml generator plugin I wrote some time ago to be installable via composer.

This means you no longer need to faff around with directories,…

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Known data model changes

Known data model changes

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A heads up to those who are following Known GitHub HEAD!

I’ve just merged a change to Known core that makes a significant change to Known’s *sql core (mysql and Postgres). This change splits the metadata table into one metadata table per collection.

This simplifies the data model, which makes certain stuff easier…

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ReVIEW Courseware plugin

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Over the last few months I’ve been working on a couple of Known related developments for a project called reView.

Greg McVerry demoed this plugin (virtually) at the Home-brew Website Club this week, and it apparently was well received.

Still early days,…

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New Unofficial Known packages

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Just a quick update.

By popular request, I’ve updated my unofficial Known package build available, to the latest version on Github.

This package includes all the great work that has been done by the community since version 1.0.0 was officially released last year.

Go download them here!

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Date time pickers in Known

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Another quick one.

I’ve updated the Known repository to include a patch that will provide a date time picker fallback for old browsers that don’t support the HTML 5 date time picker.

Modern browsers like Chrome support the date time picker natively, however older browsers like Safari did not. Not sure why this was…

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Life; interrupted

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I imagine that many of you out there reading this are in the same position as me, under de facto house arrest to delay the spread of the Chinese Coronavirus, COVID-19.

As states and entire countries place their citizens under “lockdown”, we are all force to put our entire lives on hold, and weather the…

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OpenID Connect support for Known OAuth Client

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Another quick update.

I’ve just updated the (somewhat experimental) Known OAuth2 client to be able to support OpenID connect (OIDC).

What this means is that the client will now be able to authenticate against any identity provider that supports OpenID Connect.

This has been tested and works (as part of my work…

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Life under lockdown

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Like many people around the world in countries struggling to deal with with the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic, the state in which I’m currently living has put its entire population under a “lockdown”.

We are only meant to leave our houses for a set number of reasons – buying food, a short bit of exercise, a medical…

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Updated Known S3 Plugin

Updated Known S3 Plugin

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Thanks to input from the fantastic Known Community, the Amazon S3 plugin has been updated to Known 1.0.

This includes support for the latest Amazon libraries, and now is installable via composer.

To grab it:

composer install idno/amazon-s3

Enjoy!

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Simple monitoring with Slack

Simple monitoring with Slack

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Part of my day job is writing and maintaining a fairly massive and complex piece of software which has become mission critical for various large scientific infrastructures around Europe.

For reasons that will be familiar to anyone who’s built platforms that suddenly become successful, certain things were…

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Authorization Bearer token not found in $_SERVER FIXED

Authorization Bearer token not found in $_SERVER FIXED

Just a quick one, you’ve been coding up your REST api, and are trying to use a Bearer authorization token (as obtained from an OAuth2 handshake), and it’s just not working.

If you send your access token as a GET or POST value things work fine however.

You point your head at httpbin.org and to see what your client is sending, and low and behold, the bearer token is present and correct.

Yo…

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Handling PUT and PATCH in PHP REST endpoints

Handling PUT and PATCH in PHP REST endpoints

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As part of (one of) my day jobs, I have had to yet again bash together a set of REST APIs. This is so we can start wiring up some proper micro services AWS style scalable architecture into the monolithic beast that is the current incarnation of the software I’m working on.

Anyway, here are a few gotchas for this if you…

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Update on the Known Open Collective

Update on the Known Open Collective

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The Known Open Collective, which was set up last year, is continuing to grow.

This is fantastic, and I’m ever grateful for those who use Known, contribute to the community in whatever way, and especially to those who vote for Known with their hard earned dollars!

The collective has built up a reasonable war…

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Nvidia drivers stopped working on Ubuntu 18.04

Nvidia drivers stopped working on Ubuntu 18.04

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tl:dr – Kernel headers for 5.3.0 have changed so modules for older Nvidia cards no longer build. Downgrade to the last known good kernel (e.g. 5.0.0-37-generic) and you should be good.

So, I woke up this morning (blues riff), extra early in order to bash out some client work before heading to the gym. I turned on…

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Farewell 2019, on to 2020...

Farewell 2019, on to 2020…

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I am currently writing this on my laptop on a train to see some friends for a Czech Christmas tradition of mulled wine and fried carp. I’m surrounded by frantic Christmas shoppers , and I’m pondering the year that is almost gone as they stuff bags of last minute gifts into overhead luggage shelves.

In a way 2019 can…

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Updating LTI to Composer

Updating LTI to Composer

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I had a spare 5 minutes before my next appointment, so I have converted the Known LTI plugin to be easily installable via Composer.

This has been requested by a number of people in order to make it easier to install on Known 1.0 and above, so… happy Christmas I guess!

So, now you should be able to grab it on your…

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Installing Known on Reclaim Hosting

Installing Known on Reclaim Hosting

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I recently had to help someone who was having trouble setting up a Known site on their Reclaim hosting account. I hit a few gotchas along the way, so I’m jotting them down here with hopes that it helps others.

Installing Known

I live in the console, so after setting up the domain…