The next couple of months are going to be a crazy ride. I will be visiting at least 7 countries, speaking on 8 or more days in a 5 week period. The talks will be focused on Drupal and Aegir. My schedule is below.
Apache Solr is an excellent full text index search engine based on Lucene. Solr is increasingly being used in the Drupal community for search. I use it for search for a lot of my projects.
My experience themeing Drupal, like most of my coding skills, have been developed by digging up useful resources online and some trail and error. I have an interest in graphic design, but never really studied it.
Today I purchased a Motorola DEXT (aka Cliq) from Optus. Overall I like it. It feels more polished than the Nokia N97 which I bought last year. The range of apps is good.
When you run a lot of Drupal sites it can be annoying to keep track of all of the modules contained in a platform and ensure all of them are up to date.
Lately I have been trying to avoid non packaged software being installed on production servers. The main reason for this is to make it easier to apply updates.
Aegir is an excellent way to manage multi site drupal instances, but sometimes it can be a bit too heavy. For example if you have a handful of sites, it can be overkill to deploy aegir.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 00:00
My blog is now syndicated on Planet Drupal. I am very excited about this - thanks Simon.