Today we’ve gone live with TBS at mediatemple… and due to my dodgy work… the site isn’t really here ;) The move was prompted by a number of factors… predominantly:

• Hostrocket shared plans being rubbish and

• mediatemple being amazing!

Mediatemple hit the radar for us a little while back… but it was really this TalkCrunch podcast about their new GridServer system… really cool - and perfect for our various sites - particularly Sydney Storm Chasers, Two Brown Shoes and Tales From the Box. The GridServer product sounds cool - the benefits of shared hosting, but like a scalable virtual server solution. The other great thing is that they have support for ruby on rails… meaning that much crazy innovation is soon to follow! We’ll be sure to keep recording our observations - but in this early stage the signs are very positive.

Got back from the third day of the Sydney Moodle Conference this afternoon… chock full of massive ideas to take back to school. The conference actually provided a high encouragement to me to think creatively about Open Source development and software in general. One project we’ll be closely following is the Mahara ePortfolio system, being developed mainly out of Catalyst IT in Welllington, NZ. Those guys really are the stuff when it comes to developing and supporting OSS. They’re major users of Git too – can’t wait to get into my dev environment and start managing my source with git – seems like a really funky tool – and its ability to properly manage merges with Moodle CVS is absolutely GOLD!

Over the next little while I’ll be looking to profile some elements of our school’s transition of Moodle from Windows Server 2003 and IIS to Linux. I decided today (mainly under advisement from some who know better) to look at shifting our environment to PostgreSQL. I think as we move forward its better stability etc will be very strong assets to us.

Off to Flinders Christian Community College in the morning (at the airport at 6am!) to present to them on using Moodle and LMSes in general.

The to-do list keeps piling up… but it’s all so damn fun!