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Microblogging

Posted on November 5th, 2008 by You
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For the ever lazy in me, I have added a microblog.

Pretty simple faire, and the idea was borrowed from another use of the tribune module which I have blogged about before.

This is all kinds of awesome!

now lets see if I actually use this thing...

Drupal Disapointments - is the community working?

Posted on September 20th, 2008 by You
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Looking at the top search terms at drupalmodules.com, I was not surprised to see the top search term was for image. What IS surprising is that with 6 months since the Drupal 6 release, there is still not a stable release of the image module. (I am not picking on this module, but I have recently offered a patch and would love to know if I am going about it in the right way... hint hint.)

It is worse than that from the top four terms, all of which correspond to a module, none has a stable release out!

Drupal is Great (Themes related)

Posted on August 14th, 2008 by You
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This post is brought to you in conjunction with hotspot shield (because the access issues are continuing) and 11 heavens through which I found a simple fix the the bounding issues with the ablock theme.

According to the 11heavens link, Drupal supplies a css class to fix the bounding issues I was experiencing on this site with the current theme. I have now filed an issue for it to be fixed.

A change of scenery

Posted on August 5th, 2008 by You
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Lo and behold, a new theme - A Block by couzinhub.

Functional, unassuming and good looking were the things I was looking for (and in that order) and this theme provides them all by the bucketload.

A little bit of History. Again.

When I first started this site, it had a basic theme - a slight modification to the default theme for pmWiki. It was unassuming and did its job.

Then I moved the site to Drupal. With drupal came a multitude of choices. Good choices, but at times a little overpowering.

phpbb2drupal now fully supports phpbb3 import

Posted on August 1st, 2008 by You
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At long last, I think there is light at the end of the tunnel.

This commit should not complete support for importing data from phpbb3 to drupal. This should be available in a HEAD release within the next few hours for people to test out.

So, where are we?

1. The module is much simplified from when I took over in December. This is true both internally and externally as seen by the user.

2. User import for phpbb3 now works. This includes importing passwords, using the phpass module. There is a caveat - workaround also supplied in that link.