Theodicius

Good. Evil. Bratwurst.

Oh, Joy

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 12:04 pm

Upgraded mySQL to 5.x this weekend. Wasn’t paying attention when I did so, and nailed all my development databases along the way. Not to mention the new password hash making a hash of things as well. Another very good reason not to upgrade when you’re overtired. Sigh. My development disc is overcrowded. I need to […]

Hidden Marketing

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 11:43 am

Apple has released their first Intel-based portable. If I could read the web page I might even be interested in buying it. Aside from the general tiny print that Apple always insists on, what fool decided medium-grey-on-black was a good choice for text?

Christmas Rituals

Filed under: General— arlen@ 9:31 am

We all have our rituals to prepare for Christmas. For me it involves Alistair Sim. Funny how it seems some people are born to do just one thing superbly. I know I’ve seen Sim in other roles, but for the life of me I can’t recall any of them offhand. But his role as the […]

And one more bump

Filed under: General,Technology— arlen@ 7:44 pm

The drupal sql file for postgresql ran into two fatal bugs. One with “alter sequence” and another with “anyelement”. Possibly this is a hosting issue, because I only have access to 7.3.10 on my host and drupal says 7.4, but I suspect there’s even more trouble ahead, so this experiment is officially over. I had […]

Drupal Complaint

Filed under: General,Web Design— arlen@ 9:42 am

Continuing the journey, I run aground. Have just hit a complete showstopper while evaluating Drupal as a CMS. True, I only discovered it when testing the Event Module, but the deficiency infects every drupal module I’ve seen. They make no differentiation between the ability to create a content item and the ability to publish it. […]

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