Since I got my self-hosted Ubuntu lamp server up and running some while back, I have made it my personal mission to find out exactly what she can do. “Why in the world would you want to run a home server?” is the question I sought to answer for myself, and sought to do so…
Tag: drupal
Announcing: New feature on NousEssence – poetry!
I’m pleased to announce the addition of a new section to the site’s content: “Joshp’s Poetry”. The content of this section will NOT, by default, be promoted to the Front Page of Nous Essence, nor will it be, by default, featured on the main feed for the site. But you may see, from time to…
Microblog-purple (Identi.ca/Twitter-Pidgin Integration)
So I had a difficult time trying to understand “Why Twitter”, even after I began using it. I like integration. Why have yet another method to stay connected, when we have blogging, social network sites, instant message networks up the wazoo, irc, etc and etc…? So, I integrated twitter into my Drupal site using the…
New Site Feature: Gravatar!
Today finds this site Gravatar enabled. What is Gravatar you ask? From the site: “A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from blog to blog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not…
New Site Feature!! Comment Notify!
Just a quick note to commemorate the addition of a nifty new feature from the module Comment Notify. Now you can receive email notifications when someone adds a comment to a post that you have commented on…and the best parts: 1. You don’t need an account to sign up for these notifications, 2. you can…
Anti-SPAM! or How I secured NousEssence
SPAM! Why should I have to worry about spam, right? This is a pretty low traffic site (sigh) and who’s going to spam on me? I had a post a bit ago about passing a spam right of passage and enabling a bit of security to get around it. Well, the spam dude was not…
To blog or not to blog…
It’s been all quiet on my blog for quite some time, so I thought I should make a post. I should blame school for this, but the fact of the matter is that I am just not so certain as to what direction to take this blog. I know I have the whole “technical progress”…
Drupal 6?
Well, so Drupal 6 came out yesterday, the day of my daughter’s birthday! Right, so I did absolutely nothing with Drupal, but we took Savannah shopping, and I made her favorite dinner, and we all went to go see a cheesy movie. 🙂 She’s 11! ((and I’m feeling old)) The big deal is that I…
Panic Moment
What do you do when you try to access your drupal site from school and all you get are blank white pages with no source and the absence of any 404 error or whatever? You promptly go outside, and smoke a dozen cigarettes, unless you just quit, then you clench your teeth together and freak…
Almost sold out…
Well, I almost did it. As a matter of fact, I did do it, for a little bit…I sold out. One of the reasons I made this site was to stay away from using any 3rd party hosted services. I wanted to be able to host my own site, with my own blog, calendar, forums,…