{"id":302,"date":"2014-04-29T11:10:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T23:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2014-08-23T11:34:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T23:34:29","slug":"gsoc-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/29\/gsoc-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"GSOC 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google-melange.com\/gsoc\/homepage\/google\/gsoc2014\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-303 size-thumbnail\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/gsoc-2014-600x540-150x150.png\" alt=\"gsoc-2014-600x540\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>We are lucky to have <a href=\"http:\/\/vignesh.info\/blog\/yay-i-am-in-gsoc14\/\">Vignesh Panneerselvam<\/a> working on the SCORM plugin\u00a0as part of Google Summer of Code this year &#8211; there are 3 main areas of focus for his work:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improving the built-in navigation buttons<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think the navigation buttons in Moodle have ever worked correctly &#8211; we&#8217;ve made incremental improvements but I&#8217;m hoping Vignesh will help to sort out the remaining issues.<\/li>\n<li>Performance improvements.<br \/>\nThere are a number of areas in the SCORM code that don&#8217;t perform well on larger sites &#8211; one of our clients has over 250 Million records in the SCORM tracking tables and any small improvement to performance can make a large difference to the operation of the server.<\/li>\n<li>Code Cleanup<br \/>\nMoodle&#8217;s Coding guidelines have improved\/evolved over time and we haven&#8217;t always kept up to date in the SCORM code &#8211; Vignesh will help us to tidy this up a lot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Vignesh has already made some useful contributions to the SCORM code &#8211; I&#8217;m looking forward to\u00a0working with him as he improves the SCORM code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are lucky to have Vignesh Panneerselvam working on the SCORM plugin\u00a0as part of Google Summer of Code this year &#8211; there are 3 main areas of focus for his work: Improving the built-in navigation buttons I don&#8217;t think the navigation buttons in Moodle have ever worked correctly &#8211; we&#8217;ve made incremental improvements but I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[3,5],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moodle","category-scorm","tag-moodle","tag-scorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}