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Over the years, we've hosted our websites with a variety of shared hosts, eventually moving towards hosting on a local T-1 on our own server. This had lots of advantages and was our most reliable solution. We went two years with literally no downtime at all, but then were hit by two eight hour plus T-1 outages which basically crippled us the first time. By the second time, I had some redundancy in place that prevented all of the sites from being out. But, because of expense, it was only used for our larger customers that were paying for increased redundancy.

This entry was posted on Thu, 01/20/2011 - 11:33pm

The first major disappointment from my iPad was not being able to post pictures to my Drupal sites. The sites are using CCK, Filefield, and Imagefield. This is a great solution for any computer and OS except that iOS devices don't have a way to browse files so you can't upload them.

I just discovered Filefield Sources http://drupal.org/project/filefield_sources. It extends filefield, allowing a URL to be inserted so you can download images from the web directly to your site.

This entry was posted on Sun, 01/09/2011 - 11:49pm and is filed under .

I had an interesting request on a Drupal site that I'm working on. I've created a view with a list of names that had a significant date and some other information. My original understanding was that we needed the list grouped by year of the significant date listed in descending order by the significant date. This was easily done using Views 2 right out of the box.

This entry was posted on Sun, 10/10/2010 - 9:38pm and is filed under .

I just got around to putting Conky on my laptop, which I installed Ubuntu Lucid sometime this Spring. In the past, I have toyed around with Conky and had it on most of my Ubuntu installations. This time I wanted to go with a little bit different design and add some useful features like external and internal ip address and temperatures. Also my old Conky was a little buggy on things like weather when I didn't have an internet connection.

Enter Conky-Colors. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/CONKY-colors?content=92328

This entry was posted on Wed, 10/06/2010 - 9:10pm and is filed under .

A few months ago, I needed to bring in an XML feed from another provider. This wasn't a RSS feed that I could use feeds API on but an XML with fields related to lake levels, etc. In the past, I had used the built in simplexml features in PHP 5 to do this job. The problems I had in the past were that the feed would go down for hours to days at a time. This would only serve to break my site. It seems that every time I edited my code to compensate for an error caused by the buggy feed the next time it would cause a different error. 

This entry was posted on Sun, 09/26/2010 - 10:07pm and is filed under .

For anyone who is having problems getting the Twitter module to authenticate with their account you'll need the Oath 2.02 module and to upgrade Twitter to 3.0-beta2. Look at #58 on for a good tutorial on how to do this. http://drupal.org/node/404470#comment-3405168

This entry was posted on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 9:06pm and is filed under .

One of my Joomla websites got hacked the other day. Yes, I still have one or two Joomla websites. The end result was one line of malicious code placed on the first line of every php file in that website directory. Being that it had a lot of components there were around 1,051 files that had been modified. Even worse was that it had been infected about 15 days ago and I keep about 12 days of recurring backups on that server so my backups were gone. It either hadn't been reported or didn't show it's face until this week.

This entry was posted on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 7:09pm and is filed under .

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