Archive for: 2012
Two Moons and Granville Island
I took a picture of the Moon two days apart, on May 9 and 11. I’m quite happy with the amount of detail! Previously when I shot the Moon at night it was nothing but a fuzzy white blob.
TRIUMF
Last Sunday—yes, I’m just getting around to blogging about it—I went on my third tour of TRIUMF. Fortunately indoor vball season’s over, and grass only starts next month, so I was free to bask in SCIENCE!
Macro
I’ve been experimenting with my camera’s macro zoom, and actually snapped some decent pictures!
Magento: Adding custom attributes to orders, Part II
In hindsight I probably should have tested the method I blogged about recently, just to make sure it works.
Because it doesn’t.
I was wrong and it feels good
So I’m putting the finishing touches on an UberCart 2 module, and I’m thinking it’s as good as it’s going to get. Then I go ahead and test it—the most visible test would be the creation of a custom node type and product class—and… no go. The class is created, but the node type isn’t.
Magento: Adding custom attributes to orders
I’m currently working on a little Magento side project. The learning curve is still steep, and still frustrating. A big part of it involves creating custom fields on orders.
What I learned at Straight Camp
Ted Cox is an ex-Mormon missionary who found reason and now spends much of his time writing and talking about evangelical subcultures. In particular, he has gone undercover (posing as a gay man) to “ex-gay” retreats and workshops. His talk last night, sponsored by UBC Freethinkers, PrideUBC and the Secular Student Alliance, gave us a peek into the weird world of ex-gay ministries. Plus, it was his very first talk in Canada. Woo!
George Takei’s happy dance and The Batman 1943 film serial
Behold the greatest thing ever:
Adding custom fields to products in Ubercart
Here’s a little something I figured out just recently. Let’s say you have Ubercart installed. Let’s say also that you want to add a custom field to the uc_orders table. There are a couple of ways to do this.
Mythbusters!
The Mythbusters were in town this Sunday! Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage took over the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for a couple of hours of fun and science. Though I’m a huge fan I hadn’t actually planning to go, since I’ve got volleyball on Sunday nights, and I didn’t think a live show would really add much to the experience—unlike, say, Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer, who graced the Vogue Theatre back in November.
Frosty
A few photos of morning frost…
Looking Back at 2011
Not a big list this time, I’ll just mention two memorable highlights of 2011: I started working with Drupal, and I turned 40.
Holiday Photos: Find The River
As is my wont, I flew back to Ottawa to visit withe the family over the holidays. As is becoming my wont I took photos of the landscape from the plane, both coming and going. On the way over, the weather was completely overcast from Calgary to around Sudbury, but what I got was top-notch; Little towns like Temagami, Lumsden’s Mill, Fort-Coulonge, and Ste-Cécile-de-Masham, towns that I’d never heard of but suddenly became amazingly interesting places I might like to visit someday; islands and lakes like Lac La Pêche and Rapides-des-Joachims; and completely random places like some farm out near Russel, ON.
