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Drupal 4.5.2 Upgrade

January 17, 2005

Drupal is out with its 4.5.2 upgrade. It is a very simple upgrade and I had zero problems. Checking the changelog reveals Drupal is now four years and two days old (based on the 1.0 date of January 15, 2001). Happy birthday Drupal! Those of us using it are looking forward to several more great years.

Later today I will likely write a little more about Ranchero Software's Mars Edit which I've been using the last couple of days. Great software. Drupal users have to tell it to use Movable Type settings to get all the extras to work.

Update Looking at a post on the Drupal site it seems tracker isn't working. The tracker module has two changes of significance. Lines 70 and 73 have added 'AND c.status = 0' to the SQL statement. Removing that statement restores previous tracker behavior. What does it break?

Blogging tools

November 17, 2004

I was reminded when looking at Joe Trippi's Drupal site of a podcast from BloggerCon III this weekend. Scoble was leading a session and there was a great deal of discussion of categories. Drupal makes categories so simple and everybody can easily subscribe to the man feed or any category they want. Can't decide which category to put something in, it doesn't matter. It can easily go in more than one.

MySQL problem with Drupal Upgrade

November 4, 2004

I'm not sure where the problem came from but upon upgrading to Drupal 4.5 my site kept throwing errors here and there. It was trying to do an insert into the Menu table to create the custom menus. But the table wasn't configured properly.

  pid int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0',<br />
  path varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',<br />
  title varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',<br />

These three fields were missing from the menu table. After they were added it seems very happy and all is well.

Upgrade time

November 4, 2004

It will be a busy few weeks here, but we got it kicked off with an upgrade to Drupal 4.5.0. Very nice and a smooth upgrade so far. There are a couple of gremlins that need zapping (probably to do with my theme).

I want my old blogging world - Check out Drupal

August 2, 2004

Marc Canter writes about wanting tools he used to have in Radio Userland. The first feature he mentions is one of the key features of Drupal. "The functionality of having a POST button right next to the news story - is essential." I could not agree more. In fact the features he asks for are possible in Drupal. I'm not certain that the WYSIWYG copy and paste is standard but it wouldn't be difficult to add. Drupal is rapidly out pacing many of its 'peers' who seem to rest more on their laurels than innovation.

Drupal wish list

August 1, 2004

Drupal has been a great site management system. It is called a content management system but there are some functions that would make it much more useful in that regard. I say it's a great site management system because it's great for managing a single site. If you want more than one site you need more than one instance of Drupal. There are some ways of prefixing table names and making it possible to put two instances of Drupal on a single server.

Taxonomy based RSS feeds would be a big help. It would be best to have the ability to have several different RSS feeds so people could subscribe to those feeds they are interested in. If a site owner chooses to they can allow for people to subscribe to various feeds based on taxonomy.

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