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[robbat2]

I'm good. *raises hands*. A little bit of good techno/rock/alternative music that encourages you can help you get a lot of hard tasks done.

What did I do you ask? On the TechBC conferences, I posted some of my daily answers to the wrong forum. I sent them to the forum for the entire TechOne, instead of my team forum. I had seen a delete button on the faculty's systems before when they had logged in, so I managed to figure out how to delete my own messages, which ET&L have gone to a lot of trouble to try and stop learners doing. But now I have got it figured out. I want to see about editing my own posts in the future too, as that would be really handy for some typos I tend to make despite the spellchecker, which I prefer not to use, because it destroys the HTML in my messages.

Hmm, maybe I will just end up creating my own documentation for the XML-RPC interface to the backend they are using, so that I can do what I want properly. I asked for the documentation about it once before, but they said I was not going to get it because of security concerns. It wouldn't surprise me if there is no real security on the backend, like there should be.

Reverse-engineering the CMS system will probably be a major PITA, as from what I found in glancing through some of the source, it has really been hacked up badly. But the advantages are that in the end, I can have a really decent client of my own to read the CMS, without having to put up with the existing one. Ideally I would implement my new one in something cross-platform, probably PHP+XUL with XBL. It would need some JavaScript on the client end too, to parse the XML into HTML via XSLT.