The main long term issue in the use of BIM has been student's creating blog posts that contain "special" characters. This is typically done when they create their post in Word and then copy and paste it into their blog. The interaction between BIM, SimplePie and database engines has not been a good one. It results in blog posts either not being stored in the Moodle database or being cut off at the special character....more...
The following is a description of a common "problem" with BIM....more...
The following is a record of some work to investigate some more apparent problem with BIM mirroring blog posts that contain "special" characters due to a bit of copying and pasting from Word into Wordpress....more...
The following is a summary/explanation of a common problem with BIM and its mirroring of blog posts and a common solution. The problem is generally caused by folk creating their blog posts in Word and then copying and pasting them into the blog post. For various reasons this process brings along some "special" characters which, while they work fine in Word, screw up royally within more constrained textual representations, like those of Web browsers and XML/RSS parsing libraries....more...
This is the first post in a new tradition. Any problems folk report with BIM and the subsequent diagnosis and solution I undertake will get reported here on the blog and hopefully mirrored in some way onto the BIM github page....more...