PragmaTouch products mTouch and mTouch+ (native iOS app for Moodle) has an increasing popularity and we get lots of spam emails through our "Contact Us" page. As a result using some sort of CAPTCHA was inevitable although I think CAPTCHA's are not user friendly.

After evaluating some CAPTCHA implementations I decided to integrate reCAPTCHA to our Cuyahoga powered site. Here are the details

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There is already a jQuery LighBox Module for Cuyahoga 1.6 but in my case I have a Cuyahoga 1.5.0 installed with some custom modules and can not use that module. Here are the steps you have to perform to use jQuery LighBox Plugin with a Cuyahoga 1.5.x installation.

1. Dowload jQuery LighBox plugin from here.
2. In your Cuyahoga installation root browse to js folder and create JQueryLightBox folder under that js folder
3. Open jquery.lightbox-0.5.min.js file found in the downloaded package and replace
   
   • 'images/lightbox-ico-loading.gif' with '/images/lightbox-ico-loading.gif'
   • 'images/lightbox-btn-prev.gif' with '/images/lightbox-btn-prev.gif'
   • 'images/lightbox-btn-next.gif' with '/images/lightbox-btn-next.gif' 
   • 'images/lightbox-btn-close.gif'with '/images/lightbox-btn-close.gif'
   • 'images/lightbox-blank.gif' with '/images/lightbox-blank.gif'
   and save your changes
4. Copy jquery.js and jquery.lightbox-0.5.min.js files found in the downloaded package to JQueryLightBox folder created in the previous step
5. Create a folder named css under your Cuyahoga installation root and create JQueryLightBox folder under that css folder
6. Copy jquery.lightbox-0.5.css found under css folder inside the downloaded jQuery LighBox package to JQueryLightBox folder created in the previous step
7. In your Cuyahoga installation root browse to Images folder and copy the image files found in under images folder of the downloaded jQuery LighBox package to the Cuyahoga Images folder.
8. In your Cuyahoga installation browse to Templates folder and find the ascx file under the current template folder you are using
9. In the head section of your ascx file add these lines

   <script type="text/javascript" src="../../js/JQueryLightBox/jquery.js"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript" src="../../js/JQueryLightBox/jquery.lightbox-0.5.min.js"></script> 		

10.  At the end of the ascx file just before the closing of body tag add the following js code

<script type="text/javascript">
 $(function() {
     $('a.lightbox').lightBox(); // Select all links with lightbox class
 });
 </script>




11. Add links to your images to enable jQuery LightBox for your images. Here is the template link 

 <a title="Title here" class="lightbox" href="Link to your original image file"><img border="0" alt="" src="Link to the thumbnail image file if you wish to use thumbnails, if not you can remove this img tag" /></a>

 
12. See jQuery LightBox in action

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Introduction

Cuyahoga provides module developers with a simple to use wrapper classes for full text indexing with Lucene.NET.
Although wrapper classes are easy to use these classes are not generic in nature. I mean
we, as module developers, have to convert our custom content (be it static or dynamic)
to a SearchContent object so that wrapper classes can index that content. Another similar limitation is when we perform search on the indexed content we can only get collection of SearchResult objects. I also want to mention that we, as module developers, have no control over which fields will be stored/unstored, which fields will be used as keywords or which fields will not be indexed while wrapper objects build the full text index.

In this article I will try to show you how we can make Cuyahoga.Core fulltext indexing capabilities more generic by providing a seperate extension assembly.
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Introduction

Cuyahoga framework has very nice approach to Web development. It has bunch of built-in modules and you can develop your own modules in a
couple of hours. If you have some experience with NHibernate and/or some other web framework your module development
may even take less than an hour. My product site PragmaSQL Online runs on top of Cuyahoga framework and it took
me just a couple of hours to bring this site up and running. Although Cuyahoga is a very nice framework and I love Cuyahoga development
I shall admit that you may experience some problems while applying some advanced topics like Ajax to Cuyahoga. In this article
I will show you a simple and structured way to add Ajax support to your Cuyahoga web site.
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Motivation

PragmaSQL started as part time development effort and by time PragmaSQL evolved to a commercial product.
Today PragmaSQL has a dedicated web site (PragmaSQL Online) build on Cuyahoga Framework.
PragmaSQL Online was primarly designed to meet very simple requirements like

• Host simple advertorial content introducing PragmaSQL
• Host downloads ( PragmaSQL Application, 3rd party add-ins and other open source material)
• Licences distribution and validation via some web services.

As the number of people using PragmaSQL increased PragmaSQL Forum was added to enable users to communicate
with each other and with PragmaSQL developers. PragmaSQL forum was the only place where people submitted bugs,
support and new feature requests. But as the number of posts increased managing all this content became a real pain for
me. It was hard to group and keep track of the posts, for example i could not know exactly how many bugs were posted
and how many of these bugs are waiting, in progress or already resolved.
Forum approach to maintainance was also inefficient for the users , they had no clue about the status of their posts
because Forum Module did not provided custom post attributes and the communication model was very loose. Forum module
did not have any mechanism to notify users about the status changes of their posts.
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