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There's yet another security update to the Drupal software - Drupal 5.19 and Drupal 6.13.  Time to touch all those sites again! 

I have been working on converting sites over from D5 to D6 lately.  This will be a slow and steady process since most will require re-theming for Drupal 6.  It's going to be a long summer and probly long fall too.  All new development is in Drupal 6. Read more »

After a solid week of blocked emails and access issues, it seems that Site5.com suffers from the same issues as HostGato.com.  As successful domain hosts, they sell accounts to everyone, you - me and the spammer.  When this happens their servers are marked on black-lists, and we suffer because our email gets called spam.  This is maddening! Read more »

Over the past few weeks I have been looking for a new hosting service.  The service I need is for a number of small sites I maintain that are low traffic Drupal sites.  By using a Reseller account I can reduce the cost of hosting 10-20 sites to a single large account.  For larger mission critical commercial sites, I use either Advanttage Labs (Pajunas) or Sundays Energy, as they provide another level of backups and support.  Read more »

A new version of CCK (1.10) posted yesterday, so almost every site I have will be getting an update in the next day or two.  CCK is the backbone of Drupal, it has expanded how we create content types and develop complex websites.  Good thing I have a  compact and efficient scheme for updating all those sites!

Like all my websites, AntiWarSalon.us got an update to Drupal 5.12 today.  No time today for any updates or improvements.  The only module to be updated is the Signup module.  This site is good to go for a while. 

This morning I updated www.wilbur.us to Drupal 5.12.  I use my personal site as a test site for new modules and features, so today I installed the development versions of Backup and Migrate ver 2.X and Blog Info ver 2.X.  I'll give them a whirl and see what they offer.   Read more »

It's been a few weeks now, but I am still catching up on updating all of the websites I attend to Drupal 5.12.  Even with a good automated process, it takes about 15 minutes per site to update them with the new version of Drupal and all the module updates each site needs. 

I should have been done with this earleier, but I took some time off and went on a hike to the bottom (and top) of the Grand Canyon.   In the end this will probably make me MORE productive since I will be able to work better when I am well rested.   Read more »