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remnants

2009 June 30
 
by dnorman

2009-06-30 remnants

The Boy™ can eat. This is all that’s left of a large Steak & Mushroom Melt pizza from Panago, after the two of us were done with it.

waiting

2009 June 29
 

2009-06-29 waiting

waiting for aunt helen at meeting area D at the calgary airport

video from the 2009 Alberta Ride to Conquer Cancer

2009 June 29
 

2009-06-28 got'er doneI 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 ride easier to push through.

Full resolution photos are available on Flickr, and I apologize for my severe lack of video production skills…

got’er done

2009 June 28
 

2009-06-28 got'er done

Craig and I, just after crossing the finish line. Photo by my cousin Robin Meckelborg

longview

2009 June 27
 

2009-06-27 longview

the last pit stop of Day 1, before reaching camp.

rolls and lines

2009 June 26
 
by dnorman

2009-06-26 rolls and lines

carpet rolls piled up in the warehouse, waiting to become someone’s floor.

8 hours

2009 June 25
 
by dnorman

this makes me smile.

8_hours

BuddyPress and MultiDB

2009 June 25
 
by dnorman

multidb_buddypress_configI’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 it easy to declare tables as belonging to a shared global database, so they don’t get recreated for each blog and are common across the entire service.

Thanks to a reminder by Andrew on the premium.wpmudev.org forum!

I edited my db-config.php file to declare the BuddyPress tables as being global, and copied the tables from the database where they had been collecting, into the global database.

// BuddyPress
add_global_table('bp_activity_sitewide');
add_global_table('bp_activity_user_activity');
add_global_table('bp_activity_user_activity_cached');
add_global_table('bp_friends');
add_global_table('bp_groups');
add_global_table('bp_groups_groupmeta');
add_global_table('bp_groups_members');
add_global_table('bp_groups_wire');
add_global_table('bp_messages_messages');
add_global_table('bp_messages_notices');
add_global_table('bp_messages_recipients');
add_global_table('bp_messages_threads');
add_global_table('bp_notifications');
add_global_table('bp_user_blogs');
add_global_table('bp_user_blogs_blogmeta');
add_global_table('bp_user_blogs_comments');
add_global_table('bp_user_blogs_posts');
add_global_table('bp_xprofile_data');
add_global_table('bp_xprofile_fields');
add_global_table('bp_xprofile_groups');
add_global_table('bp_xprofile_wire');

It seems to be working fine. I’ll do some more testing, but it’s looking promising. If it’s really working, I’ll be spending some time to BuddyPress-enable the main theme for the WPMU service, and roll it out properly.

pondside naptime

2009 June 25
 

2009-06-25 - pondside naptime

a family of ducks sleeps beside the pond in the Research Park. I was trying not to scare them, so wasn’t paying close attention to the viewfinder. Focus fail. Oops.

students on the hill

2009 June 24
 

2009-06-24 students on the hill

students relaxing on the hill in Swann Mall over lunch on a beautiful summer day.