Exhausted.

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

4 photo shoots and six videos later… I am exhausted. Is commencement done yet? Whew. One more photo shoot to go, I can make it!!!

Here’s the three videos I did today:

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Video editing, anyone?

Posted on May 10, 2012 by

I’ve done some basic video editing before. And both times I used iMovie. One time for a final project in graduate school I had to make a photo story. I didn’t have to work with live movie clips, I worked with still images I’d taken. Second time was putting captions on my wedding video. That was about 3 years ago and neither was too heavy handed. Since then, I’ve had an hour training on Final Cut Pro.

I’m happy to report that has monumentally changed within the past 24 hours. This year for commencement we decided to do flip cam videos of the graduates immediately following our largest ceremonies. We’ve got two big ceremonies tomorrow, but so far, I’ve edited three flip cam movies. Yesterday, I learned how to use Adobe Premiere. And then I edited a video. Today, I edited two videos. They’re obviously not the next Avatar or anything, but I’m pretty proud.

Enjoy!

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Family website migrated

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

A week or so ago I was talking about migrating all my WordPress installations to a new hosting provider. Well, my family website migration must be a cat because I swear it died 9 times on its way over. Eventually I just used Cyberduck and manually migrated the entire /uploads/ directory (btw, 4 years worth of images took FOREVER), then in phpMyAdmin I did SQL exports of every WordPress table in the installation, then on the new hosting space, imported all the SQL exports using phpMyAdmin. Took a while, everything looked beautiful when I visited the site, but I tried to login and was greeted with the error message:

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

Boo.

Did lots of googling and discovered a fix that solved my permissions problem.

I changed table prefixes post-WordPress-installation (to match the SQL export), and I discovered there are a few values that are important to change in addition to the table prefixes.

Here are the additional values that must be changed:

In the 

usermeta

table, there are several meta_keys:

prefix_capabilities
prefix_dashboard_quick_press_last_post_id
prefix_user-settings
prefix_user-settings-time

In the 

options

table, there is a critical option_name that needs to be changed:

prefix_user_roles

Depending on your install and plugins, there may be more. For me, this has fixed it. Will post again if it’s not enough.

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Google Drive is badass

Posted on April 24, 2012 by

Installed Google Drive today and it is the ultimate so sick nasty, i LOVE it. I used to not be a huge fan of cloud storage, but after losing and misplacing and (almost never) finding teeny-tiny jump drives, I’ve converted.

Google Drive functions just like DropBox does (icon in the top toolbar, folder in Places), which is EXCELLENT. I’ve tried to get into the Amazon cloud storage, and we do have some stuff up there, but the DropBox integration on my desktop/laptop is what stole the show for me. Once I saw the Google Drive did that, I was sold.

The icing on the cake is that the second I installed Google Drive, it automatically synced ALL of my Google Docs.

It truly is the small things that make life glossy.

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Want an opening PHP tag in your WordPress post?

Posted on April 23, 2012 by

http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Code_in_Your_Posts

It always drives me batty when I want to put some PHP code in my posts and WordPress mildly freaks out. To prevent the freaking out, encode your entities. Here are the really common ones:

< = &lt;
> = &gt;
/ = &#47;
] = &#93;
[ = &#91;
" = &#34;
' = &#39;
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