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If your XAMPP comes with PHP 5.5+ by default, opcache already included in the bundle, you will just need to enable it. To enable the extension: Open php.ini (by default it should be located here: C:\xampp\php\php.ini). Add this line at the end of the file: zend_extension = "C:\xampp\php\ext\php_opcache.dll" You will need to adjust the path if you installed XAMPP in non default location. Restart Apache server.

With XAMPP when you have to import a very big mysql table, even though you have increase the script time in php.ini but sometimes it still does not cut the mustard. I found out another way to do this by going through the command line interface. For this example, I am going to use ms-dos in Microsoft Windows, however you can do similar thing with SSH. Navigate to your MySQL folder (by default it should be C:\xampp\mysql\bin) Run mysql.exe with this command: mysql -u yourusername -p yourpassword. Once you are in MySQL interface, then type use dataBaseName . If the dataBase is not set yet, run this command: create database databaseName; After the new database created, type use databaseName; To import, type: source pathToSQLData.  In PC, it will be something like source C:\xampp\htdocs\backup.sql It should start importing your data now. Extra tip: In the command line, you can do all sort of other things that you usually type in phpmyadmin sql section, it will be just fas...

When  you open CSV document using Microsoft Excel,  if you have a column with numeric data and leading 0, Excel will automatically delete the 0 and convert it the field type to number. To avoid Excel doing this automatically,  there are several ways. For me,  the easiest way is by importing the CSV file instead of opening it straight in Excel. To do that, follow the steps below Open a blank Microsoft Excel document. Navigate to data tab on your toolbar. Click import data from text. Find your csv file and click import. Leave the default choices - file type as delimited, start import at row 1, and file origin: MS-DOS and press Next. On the next screen, tick comma under delimiter options. You can untick or leave tab as it is. Press next. On the last screen, change the column with leading zero numeric data format as text. To do this, simply click on the column and change the column data format as Text. Click finish.It will ask where do you want to put the data...

To make sure you win ever time you race on dragon track, follow the guide below: * Pay attention on the track name . For example on the picture below, the track name is Rime or Reason. * Select dragon based on this guide below: Blast Furnace - Fire, metal (Forge Dragon, Brass Dragon, Sulfur Dragon) Cherry Road - Fire, plant, earth (Cotton Dragon, Sakura Dragon, Carnival Dragon, Paper Dragon) Dramoria - Cold, metal (Mine Dragon, Steel Dragon, Bearded Dragon) Electric skies - Lightning, air (Sonic Dragon, Thunder Dragon, Butterfly Dragon, Liberty Dragon) Marsh Land - Plant, water, earth (Seaweed Dragon, Swamp Dragon, Bouquet Dragon) Shimmering Fault Line - Lightning, earth (Crystal Dragon, Quake Dragon, Cotton Dragon) Rime or Reason - Air, cold (Blizzard Dragon, Snow Dragon) Ulster Meadow - Earth, plant (Moss Dragon, Tree Dragon, Forest Dragon, Clover Dragon, Cotton Dragon, Mistletoe Dragon, Paper Dragon, Sakura Dragon, Carnival Dragon, Arbor Dra...

Start from Moodle 2.0, it changed how it is handling the file inside the system. For security reason, the file is not saved as it is anymore (not like 1.9). It will be encrypted and stored into chunks of files. When you uploaded a file (mostly media resources like audio, video or image) via text editor, if you decided not to use the file anymore, there is no way for the administrator to delete the file using FTP and there was no way for the teacher / content manager to delete the unused file via the text editor itself. If you uploaded a big file (like video) this will become a problem when you try to backup your course because the file will be included in the backup file which will bloat the size of the course backup file. This in my experience will slow down the backup process and also you will likely get the maximum execution time error if your server has low capacity. I searched Moodle.org to find the way to solve this. One of the post that I found is this: https://moodle.org/...

Update: Moodle 2.7 is now using  Clean  theme by default, therefore this is not applicable anymore. Moodle in their release page, mentions one of their new updated main feature is the responsive design. I am getting excited, because with this new responsive design, user experience will be enhanced as the site will be responding to the device screen resolution size. But when I tried to install into my local development by downloading their latest stable release, the resolution is not changing based on the page size! Tried to access it using my mobile, and it still showing the same non responsive design. Then I tried to look the setting, under appearance, to see whether I need to enable responsive design setting first, but no luck. I can not find this setting anywhere. And then I tried to Google it. As this is a new release, so I still unable to find anyone that has the same problem as me (Or maybe it's just me being unlucky?) After trying for some times, finally I re...

Here are the picture that I took after the 550D LCD cracked (which means I did not see the result until after I open it in my computer. Please click on the image to see the larger version of the picture.