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?
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
OK, so you’ve seen what I have to say about Mambo/Joomla. The only other CMS I’m inclined to try is Drupal (I once wanted to test Xaraya, but they’ve backed off their original excellent design aims, it appears). So I’ve done a test installation of it. The install went fairly smoothly, but there was nothing […]