A very quick note on a bug I ran across this morning. I have recently disabled the Apache server that ships with OSX in favor of MAMP (v 1.7.1) to manage my local development environment on OS 10.5.5. As I got started on my workday I noticed that that my localhost was not resolving in the browser. A good sign that Apache is not running. I checked the server status with MAMP which showed that MySQL and Apache were both running. So I attempted to restart the servers, at which time MAMP just gets hung up. Nothing happens. The servers never restart.

As you may know, I am presently working on a rather involved social network. It is currently built on Drupal 5.x, and we are considering moving up to Drupal 6.x. In order to do this we have to asses which of the "crucial" modules have been ported to 6, and the amount of work involved in those that haven't. So this post will have 2 purposes. First, to comment on what I feel are the "foundational" modules for a social networking site using Drupal.

I have been spending the last week or so attempting to make the project that I am working on cross browser compliant. This, of course, basically means babying Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 (though 8 seems, surprisingly, to recognize standards) into some semblance of compliance. It has been grueling to say the least, as there are in some cases several bugs on a single page, thus their symptoms have become hard to trace.

As you may know I have the Flickr module enabled on this site. I use it to host images from my Flickr photostream instead of uploading them directly to this server. This module also provides functionality to display the Flickr pool that you can see at the far right. It's a handy module if you use Flickr, and it works fairly well. However, there is one qualm I have with the Flickr module, each image is displayed as a link that will take you off-site to the Flickr page.

As I have spent a little more time adding some features to this site I stumbled upon a small bug with the Flickr module. The issue arose as follows. I installed and enabled the Flickr module version 6.x-1.0-alpha1, and did all of the necessary configuration. Enabled the filter and assigned to the desired input format. Then created a simple test page to verify that the filter does indeed work, and it does. So on to the Flickr block.

As you can see, the theme of this site has changed once again. I took the time over the last few days to throw together a simple design, and do some themeing in Drupal 6. I decided to go ahead and start fresh, as I'm not too attached to the old blog posts.

The idea behind this rework, aside from getting more hands-on time with the newest version of Drupal, is to have a place to post more than a simple personal blog. I am looking for a place to post content related to my work as well (technical articles, resume, contact info, etc...).