I just attended the first meeting of a parent/teacher/student group at my daughter’s public, science/math/technology magnet school—Winterhaven. The group was formed to deal with a mandate from Portland Public Schools to grow the school’s student body, and then necessarily move, or renovate, because the school’s current building can only serve about 360 students. Now that … Read more
Update Read my latest post on my image header for how I ended up carrying out this idea. People have been asking what the deal is with the images in my site header. I’ve been experimenting with loading random background images from my collection using Drupal’s integrated jQuery tools. I’ve been thinking about trying to … Read more
My new favorite beer is made by Ninkasi, in Eugene, Oregon. They make an IPA that is simultaneously deliciously bitter and has all kinds of floral flavors that make each sip a trip to the Sumerian equivalent of Nirvana (An?). They apparently brew in the Steelhead facility and haven’t managed to build much of a … Read more
Thanks to quick work by my host Liquidweb (thanks Siena!), this site is now delivered by the three fives: Drupal 5, PHP 5 and MySQL 5. Still waiting for Linux 5 and Apache 5 ;) One of my goals here is to demonstrate/evaluate how this technology will operate on a forward-looking platform. Ever since Rasmus … Read more
Recently returned from the Open Source Content Management Systems (OSCMS 2007) gathering held at the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, CA. Drupal was strongly represented at OSCMS, but also saw some Joomla, Plone and Alfresco presence. As often, PHP maven Rasmus Lerdorf was in attendance, in this case, demonstrating the latest in security and performance considerations. … Read more
I’m now keeping a recipe cataloging the technologies and configuration that drive this xolotl.org site. Continue to check the recipe as the site evolves. Once the site reaches a certain maturity, I’m thinking to build a Drupal install profile to make it easier for others to duplicate this installation.