I never did upgrade my VPS RAM. Part of it is laziness, but part of it is that I keep thinking my web server doesn’t do enough and isn’t busy enough for 256mb to not be enough. I’m using mod_php for drupal and CivicSpace on several sites. I’m running Apache 2 with the prefork MLM….
A somewhat unrelated note on floppies and flash drives. I say this due to recent and ongoing flabbergasting experiences at work. If you have important documents, you should have them backed up somewhere. This does *not* mean keep your only copy on a floppy, CD-RW or flash drive. If you need a working copy on…
Over at the Early Retirement Forum, for which I assist in maintaining the forum software, I’ve been adding RSS icons and “Add to [My Yahoo!, Google, Bloglines, My MSN, etc.]” icons and working on getting a sensible RSS link and info system laid out. I have a news fader/ticker item that lists some of the…
I’m currently running Drupal 4.6.6, Drupal 4.7 RC3 and CivicSpace 0.8.3 . I preferred to have one set of source files, but I wanted each site (Apache vhost) to have its own root folder. So, with some symlink magic, here’s what I do. Each version of Drupal has its own directory under my servers web…
I’ve been hitting the limit of my VPS’s (virtual private server) 256mb RAM limit since installing CivicSpace, and I keep adjusting the php limit to try to avoid having forked processes fail, but then CivicSpace will fail on certain admin pages. I now understand that when looking at the module activate/deactivate page it loads *every*…
BBCode: (Input format / filter.) I love this module. Most of my intended audience is familiar with BBSes that use BBCode. With auto-url recognition and line breaks this is almost perfect for my needs. Perfect would include formatting buttons. Note that it also allows image links. (Images are so complicated in Drupal, but that’s another…
Although a relative newbie, I have some observations on CivicSpace 0.8.3 as compared to a base Drupal install: The “plain text” input filter allows unfiltered html! The bug list isn’t closely monitored. I submitted the unfiltered html issue to CivicSpace as a bug, and 4 1/2 days later it is still unassigned and has no…
These past two or three weeks I’ve been working hard on figuring out CivicSpace / Drupal. I’m ditching CivicSpace 0.8.3–based on Drupal 4.6–and going with Drupal 4.7 rc3. Drupal 4.7 is very new. In fact it hasn’t been officially released yet. But there are enough changes I think it’s important to go ahead and switch…
I’ve been geeking out on RSS stuff lately. I was aware of its existence before but didn’t have a lot of interest in it. Due to some web projects I’m doing I have a new interest in syndicating via RSS, and that’s what started this RSS geekfest of mine. This entry is mainly to list…