Following a is a list of cool stuff I didn't have time to write individual posts about.
MyOpenID - If you don't know what OpenID is, think of it this way, one sign in authentication process for every website that supports it. Drupal 6 has it, Yahoo has it, lots of places have it - learn more about OpenID and get your own.
Tagurself - enter a feed link or a url and it generates a tag cloud for you.
TeamViewer - excellent remote desktop sharing software - and its free!
Microsoft SharedView - remote connection - sharing applications - great for training people how to do things remotely.
Hooray! Drupal 6 has been released. Digg is going crazy and the drupal.org site seems to be under some pressure! However I was able to download it easily. Now to install in a test server and start playing testing.
Dries Buytaert linked to where Greg Knaddison has prepared a screencast displaying the new features. If you can't be bothered watching that then check out my short list below.
Some of the new features include:
Getting Live Writer to play nicely with Drupal wasn't as easy as it seemed. When following the default setup all I was able to do was get the blog to connect. That meant I couldn't create other types of content (images, polls, pages etc) from Live Writer. I use the page content type for my non blog related posts, as I have family and friends etc who only want to read the personal blog entries and don't want all the technical guff I stick on here appearing in their RSS readers.
After a bit of Googling I found this comment on the Drupal website
Here are my revised instructions:
I have just been asked by Gordon from Real Live Preacher to handle all the technical maintenance and management of his website. Seeing as his site is getting over 3000 unique hits a day that's a responsible job! I have been talking this possibility over with him for several weeks now and am very pleased he has come to us. We plan to do an excellent job - of course. Hi Gordon :)
rlp will announce the news officially on his site tomorrow, though he gave a teaser today.
The funniest thing was that within hours of his emailing me (while I was asleep) the site broke, so my first email of the day was his acceptance and 2 emails up was his cry for help! With the help of my techie Rohan, we solved that one quick smart and are now planning the major job of upgrading his site to the most recent version of drupal.
I have just picked up the management of a fairly high profile drupal blog, and its broke!
Challenge = do everything else I was supposed to do today and fix that! At least I have a good techie to help.
I am always being asked what do I do?
It's complicated.
You can read about some of it on our company website where I explain our Drupal Development and hosting
We have been steadily upgrading all our Drupal websites - (ours and clients) in the last 2 weeks.
The process has been slow for numerous reasons. First I have had to do paying work at the same time and second each site needs to be done twice - we have created a test server that mirrors as closely as possible the live server. On this test server we upload a backup of the live site, test it, perform the upgrade and test again. Then once we are happy we push the live site into maintenance mode, upgrade it and test it before going back online again.
We had Drupal websites in 4.5.2, 4.6.3, 4.7.4, 4.7.5, 4.7.6 and 5.2.0 versions.
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