Quick update to the website theme to add a slogan we’re trying on. Needed a bit of styling to fit in.
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Adding a MIME type for .a2j files to the Classcaster network. That’s text/xml for those of you following along at home.
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Correcting spelling errors in the CALI Courses module. Committing changes to git, pushing to GitHub, and cross committing to SVN. All because I can’t remember “i” before “e”…
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MySQL server CPU usage fall off at point that LOWER() was removed from user.module
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By removing the LOWER() functions from the validation routines in the core users.module, the system now uses the indexes on name and mail to check for uniques. The result is searches that run in the 10-20 millisecond range instead of 5-7 seconds. No more bottle neck. When dozens of bad registrations attempts happen at once the system just plows right through. It can handle upwards of 750 queries per second right now
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So, Drupal makes extensive use of the LOWER() function in MySQL. The problem is that LOWER() ignores any indexes on columns and iterates through each row looking for a match. This is a problem if your user table has >600K rows. The problem was under discussion several years ago (see: http://drupal.org/node/181625; and this: http://drupal.org/node/83738; and is ultimately ignored at http://drupal.org/node/279851) but no solution was put in place for Drupal 6.
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Back to chasing bugs http://www.cali.org. Seeing weird errors from member contacts detail pages. Database is not resetting as it should.
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Creating project in Manymoon to deal with ECR websites.
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Using PodPress on Classcaster
1: Activate PodPress
2: Configure (needs more info)
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Creating posts
1: Once media is ready, visit the media library and upload your media files for the podcast.
2: Create a new post
3: Get the URLs for the media, add them to the PodPress fields at the bottom of the new post form.
4: Write the post.
6: Rinse and repeat.Pretty straight forward actually.
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Working on using PodPress for audio and video on a Classcaster blog. Plugin has been available but using it has not been properly documented.
