I’ve been noticing that the search feature of this Drupal blog has been acting up for awhile - searching for “drupal” turns up only 4 items, but I’ve written many many posts mentioning Drupal. I didn’t think it was a big deal, but I’ve actually been getting emails and IMs asking me wtf wrt searching.
So, I dug a bit deeper. Turns out, Drupal is refusing to index my content when cron.php is called. It’s called every hour, but the /admin/settings/search status indicator is stuck at:
I’ve been helping to assemble some lists of modules that would be enabled by default for three “typical” website profiles that we’ve come up with at the TLC.
“Simple site” - a regular “static” department-ish website that is really just using Drupal as an easy way to share editing duties without requiring a geek.
“Community site” - akin to weblogs.ucalgary.ca - which may (or may not) be a superset of “simple site”
I’m working on a project where I’ll need to demonstrate the process of importing static websites into Drupal, so I’m toying with the import_html module. The only problem is, it doesn’t work on the PHP that comes with MacOSX. It requires XSLT to do it’s magic (chunking through the DOM of the static site pages).
I’ve tried installing the Entropy.ch PHP5 package , but that just borked Drupal on my test system. Is there a sane way to install a more fully-featured PHP version that will work with Drupal on MacOSX?
Father’s Day came early at my house. And Christmas. And my birthday. And Kwanzaa. For the next several years. Janice got me my Canon Digital Rebel XT today. What a sweet camera.
We sprung for the Canon XT, with spare battery, vertical grip, case, UV filter, and some other goodies I’m forgetting at the moment. Not sure if/when/how I’ll use the vertical grip, but the extra battery will come in handy. I’ve attached the UV filter as a permanent fixture, if nothing else than to protect the lense.
I’m sitting in the Comox airport (it’s actually quite a nice little airport, with wifi and everything) relaxing after the BCCampus ETUG 2006 workshop/session/mini-conference in Courtenay BC. North Island College was really gorgeous - lush, green, giant trees all over the place, and nicely designed buildings on campus. It even has a cool giant totem pole!
After the morning sessions today, I was arm-twisted into spending the afternoon in the beach (or was I the one doing the arm-twisting?) - had a blast hanging out with Keira and Harry, exploring Goose Spit beach in Comox (nice name, btw). I wound up taking something like 50 photographs, but culled that quite a bit. My faves are online of course…
Scott is demoing BCCampus ’ SOLR application for sharing online learning resources in the province of BC. I’m really liking the tie-ins with Creative Commons licensing, making it easy for content creators to safely share their stuff.
Here’s a screenshot of the cool “Browse All Creative Commons Resources” utility, ala Flickrlilli et. al.
BCCampus SOLR Creative Commons Browser: a screenshot taken of the SOLR BCCampus repository ’s Creative Commons browsing interface.
Our session this morning went really well. I think we were able to walk the line between force-feeding the participants with the relentless firehose of super-cool social software stuff, and having a fun interactive session that served as a solid starting point for people wanting to play with Web 2.0™ toys.
The session was completely full, with Harry quietly jamming to the groovy vibes of Sesame Street. It was pretty cool having Harry in the session, and he was good enough to let Keira participate.
Brian managed to swing me an invite to co-host his Social Software session at the BCCampus Spring Workshop on Educational Technologies 2006, which will be held at North Island College in beautiful downtown Courtenay BC. (actually, I’ve never been to Courtenay/Comox, so am looking forward to seeing the area - I’m flying in on a Beech 1900D, so that leg of the trip should be interesting).
The session should be fun. Brian and I are going to demo a few concepts of social software (Web 2.0 gack) and then turn the reigns over to the participants. We’ll be using SocialLearning.ca as the “hub” to bring together activities like tagging, bookmarking, blogging, and commenting. I really like the approach, especially with a concrete piece of the web bringing it together. It should make the freaky concepts of decentralized social aggregate tag clouds a bit easier to grok.
Of the three, only TinyMCE has an official 4.7 compatible release.
The first two produce absolutely horrid markup. TinyMCE used to be as spectacularly invalid/nonsemantic as the others, but it’s received a LOT of love recently and its markup is actually pretty decent now.
I took another look at the current dev. build of Flock, and it’s definitely getting closer to a final release. The quality is noticably better than previous builds - I don’t get the spinning beachball of memory thrashing hell I got before.
There is only one nit I have left to pick with Flock. It’s got the best rich text editor of all of the standalone blog posting apps I’ve tried (and I’ve tried a LOT) - except for the lack of an ability to sort and/or filter categories for application to a post before publishing.
My folks handed down their collection of cameras that has grown on one of the shelves in their house. The collection included some really amazing (to me) cameras, which are completely removed from the digital compose-in-viewfinder-automatic-everything cameras that everyone has now.
The budding collection includes:
Kodak Vigilant Six - 16, with Verichrome Film
Zeiss Ikon Ikonta Kompur Rapid, with GE Lightmeter, both in leather cases
Toyoca mini camera, with original packaging, documentation, and leather case
Canon Canonet QL17 G-III QL, with flash and leather case
Six-20 Brownie
Braun Paxette Super II SL, with leather case
Sunpak GT3 Flash, in original packaging
Olympus Trip 35, in original packaging, with leather carrying pouch case
I have to do some Googling to find out more about these cameras. I absolutely love several of them - the Vigilant, Zeiss Ikon and Brownie are amazing. Actually, they’re all amazing. The Canonet has a rangefinder built in. The Braun is incredibly detailed. They are all built like tanks.
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