just a lowly edtech geek, mumble mumble university of calgary
From the monthly archives:
I lugged my camera and Flip on the Ride to Conquer Cancer, to document some of the ride. It was a pretty epic bike ride – the hardest thing I’ve ever done – but was well worth it.
Thank you to everyone that supported me in any way – it definitely made the pain of the [...]
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this makes me smile.
I’ve been trying to get BuddyPress working on my WPMU installation that uses MultiDB for database partitioning. It’s been cranky, but I just realized I’m a complete idiot because I was overlooking the obvious (and drop dead simple) fix.
BuddyPress was acting up because it was creating tables in each blog’s database tableset. But MultiDB makes [...]
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One of the interesting new things in iPod/iPhone OS 3.0 is the new “find my iPod” feature. It’s probably most useful for an iPhone, which could be easily left on a bus or something, and has an always-on 3G connection, but it works just fine for iPods over WIFI as well.
It’s close – I’m just [...]
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One of the things I do when working with students and faculty, is to show them how to find great free resources shared online via the Creative Commons license, and to provide proper attribution. It’s really easy. It can be as simple as “Photograph by [flickr username]“, and maybe a link to the photo page.
The [...]
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I’d tried sni.ps before – it’s a very cool clip management and embedding service by the Project Opus folks. It’s gotten REALLY nice. Let’s see if I can embed a citation:
Partitioning of Data
This involves moving different tables or different parts of the database into different databases, and normally on different servers. This allows you to scale an application by adding more database servers, so your data could be spread across several servers.
HyperDB allows you to specify which data resides on which servers.
And Jim will love this – it’s powered by a Drupal website…
Brian Lamb raves about the awesome Murder, Madness, Mayhem project that was run by Jon Beasley Murray – where students in his course worked to create and edit pages in Wikipedia to bring them up to “Featured Article” status. Brian talks about how wikis are powerful examples of collaborative editing, and that although the students’ [...]
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