wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

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New year, new host

I finally got my fill of Dreamhost. I’m in the middle of moving all my sites over to A2Hosting.com. So far, I’ve migrated jamesnotjim.com, hadenthomasmartin.com, and, if you’re reading this, wheatblog.com.
There are still several more sites to go, but I haven’t had any major issues yet. Most of the remaining sites will be easy. [...]

Cp2DB: Adobe Captivate Quiz Reporting with PHP/MySQL (Version 2)

A lot of people liked my initial effort at creating a PHP/MySQL reporting solution for quizzes created with Adobe Captivate 4. The holiday break gave me a little extra time to work on the project, so I’m happy to release a new version. I even created a separate page for the project, but I’m still [...]

Open content and the future of education

A lot of colleges and universities, big and small, are putting content online for free these days. Not long back, this meant teasers of various sorts, but, of late, more and more players–especially some of the big name institutions, are putting entire courses online. And, these day’s it’s often not just introductory courses. There’s quite [...]

And the winner is . . . BackBlaze

After my recent hard drive failure, which ended happily with the successful restoration of my files from my Time Machine backups, I decided to get serious about backing up and look into some off-site, online solutions as a secondary backup in case of some worst-case scenario (e.g. fire, flood, theft–it hurts to even type those [...]

Lessons learned: the iMac lives

My iMac is back up and running, after a few days at the Apple Store to replace its internal hard drive, which failed. I was able to migrate all my data from my Time Machine backups. I haven’t tested extensively yet. The first thing I fired up was iPhoto, as the thing that worried me [...]