Every once in a while I change the technology I use to publish on my website. Sometimes it is a big change such as when I first migrated to Drupal. Other times it is something smaller. And a couple of times I’ve experimented with posting from blogging software. Today I’m trying out Blogsy from my iPad. I first purchased and downloaded Blogsy some time ago. But this site wasn’t configured for external blogging. And it was getting late. I work a lot and somehow it got moved to the back burner where it stayed until now. In the meantime different pieces fell together.

Well one year into the iPhone era. Millions have been sold and now the next generation is cheaper and better. The issues that enterprises were unhappy about seem to have evaporated in this new version of the phone. Software developers finally have an API that can be used to write more than a simple widget and a store to sell and download their applications into people’s phones. GPS has been added.

Well it was almost two years ago I wrote about waiting for the Apple phone right here. Now it’s announced, and the furor has subsided, so let’s see how good my predictions were.

OpenID looks like something worth investigating. I have signed up for a free OpenID with Videntity, and I will use their server to make this website function as my own personal OpenID. There is a Drupal module under development (but not yet upgraded to 5.1) so I hope that my site will become OpenID enabled in the near future.

Trying to serve up dynamic content? Well you have tons of solutions out there. You can use PHP, Java, Perl, Ruby and Python to create web pages. You can call CGIs, run a J2EE server, use WebObjects, or just roll your own. The most important thing is just getting the good results.

I finally got a Mighty Mouse today. That alone would not be a good enough reason to blog a review since I’m sure there are plenty of people writing about it already. But it happened to coincide with my purchase of a MiniView™ Micro USB PLUS KVM Switch by IOGEAR.

OK, OK. So not everything is working right yet. The drupal cron job is running so some feeds are starting to show up. I plan to add more and plenty of links to helpful websites. (I certainly have browsed a few of those trying to get drupal to work.) One big problem which has been there since the beginning is that transparent PNG files just don’t work on Windows Explorer. My apologies. A fix exists and I’ll try to get it implemented soon.

Well I have finally switched the website over to being run by drupal. There still may be a few glitches here and there. The CSS isn’t ready and some odds and ends remain to be done. I’ll probably install the cron task right after this. Later I’d like to use the launchd services maybe. Sendmail isn’t working today so the new user accounts are basically broke until new users can get their temporary passwords mailed to them.

Don’t back away. I’m talking about a Content Management System not a disease. Drupal is finally up and running and being tested on my server and just as soon as I check it out thoroughly I’ll probably redo my web site using it. Hopefully my next post will be something drupally.

I started investigating Content Management Systems the other day. I was getting bored with my web site. I was tired of hand coding web pages and wanted to spruce up my blogs too and wasn’t looking forward to modifying the blog CSS to match my web site’s CSS. I’ve done this once already. I like the idea behind CSS. It is nice to be able to change the look of the web pages globally while leaving the html untouched.