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As of today, the forum is back online.

Unfortunately, I gave up on migrating the old data over. There were too many discrepancies between Vanilla and bbPress database table structure and requirements. Renaming/rearranging the tables are easy enough, but I don’t have the experience or time to try to make work-arounds for the more complicated discrepancies that I found, and then hope that it doesn’t break anything. I did give it a try though.

We didn’t have any critical data on the forum, so I figured that it wouldn’t hurt too much to start from scratch. It has a very similar layout to previous incarnations, and the access has been restricted similarly as well.

I installed bbPress since it integrates with WordPress a lot easier and more dependably than Vanilla does.

Your old account will still work unless it was removed due to complete inactivity. You can login through WordPress here on my website’s front page, or directly via the forum – both access the same user information.

I found this on Twitter. Check it out.

I tried to leave out the states that I’ve only driven through or caught a connecting flight at.

So where have I traveled/visited?

Visited 14 states (28%) Create your own visited map of The US

Visited 8 Countries (3.55%) Create your own visited map of The World

Where I would still like to go?

33 countries (14.6%)

I’ve been a member of a team of two (including myself) who supports MS SharePoint at our office for about 2 – 3 months now. My team member has been mentoring me to bring me up to speed on supporting SharePoint. He gave me one of the best compliments today. He said that he had spoken with a potential hire recently to assist with the interview process. This potential hire had a decent amount of knowledge and about 2-3 years of experience with SharePoint. He said that after only working with him for the past couple of months, I had equivalent – if not more – knowledge than this potential hire.

Wow. I knew I picked things up quickly (given that I was interested), but it’s hard to judge just how much until someone puts it in perspective for you. I think that made my day today.

I couldn’t take it. I have too many projects that I’m working on, and too much school work… that I need to get started on. I found a fun theme that could hold me over for the moment until I had time to finally break down and decide on an idea and stick with it long enough to create my own theme. It doesn’t have the Journal stripped out of the main page, and /journal doesn’t work at the moment, but all the content is easily found for now.

Enjoy!

P.S. Sorry!! The forum’s still broken. I’m in the middle of mapping out the database tables between Vanilla and bbPress to see how that works out…