I’m starting to get pretty disgusted with Drupal 6. I took another look at it today and the module compatibility situation is still dismal. Common modules like CCK and Views still aren’t fully compatible with Drupal 6. For MacMegasite, I would lose the buddy lists, user points, and custom home pages. The situation is even [...]
Friday, February 15, 2008
I’ve been trying out Drupal 6.0 and it looks like this will be one of the most painful upgrades. I tried it with a local copy of MacMegasite and I found that it broke almost everything.
I don’t use too many modules, but I use some pretty basic stuff like user points, buddy list, bbcode filter, [...]
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Drupal 6.0 has finally been released. This weekend I will probably start working on upgrading MacMegasite, since it will be a lot more straightforward than worldbeatplanet or my2unz, which depend on a lot of extra modules for content types and features.
Some of the enhancements in Drupal 6.0 I’m especially excited about include:
Simplified administration: instead [...]
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I’ve created a Facebook app for my2unz. It doesn’t do anything other than let you visit and log in to my2unz, but I intend to use it for embedding playlists in facebook profiles.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
The third release candidate of Drupal 6.0 has been released. I’ll probably try it out on my local machine this weekend. I should be able to update MacMegasite without too much trouble since it doesn’t use too many modules. WorldBeatPlanet & my2unz.com, on the other hand, use some modules that have aren’t compatible with Drupal [...]
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
I switched to a new theme & logo at MacMegasite, and I also de-cluttered the sidebars. I’m still looking at more themes and working on the logo, so I may still change it if I find something I like better.
The last few days I’ve looked at a lot of WordPress & Drupal themes. Almost none [...]
I’ve made a few changes at MacMegasite and there will be more coming in the next few weeks.
First of all, Daniel Brusilovsky is officially a staff member! Hopefully we’ll add more staff this year. Look for a staff bio page to be added soon.
I’ve also added the mysite module, which lets users set up their [...]
Saturday, January 12, 2008
I’ve adjusted the cache settings and added the Block Cache module to MacMegasite, which seem to improve the performance. I’ve also had to increase the memory & CPU for my DreamHost Virtual Private Server several times in the last few days when the load got too high. Hopefully with the cache changes I won’t have [...]
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
I’ve added a Macworld tag to MacMegasite, which will list all articles tagged with that category. I will use it to post all Macworld related items.
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Anyone can now register at my2unz.com, although the site is still in beta and not feature complete. I’ve finalized the database structure and cleaned up a lot of stuff. Uploading iTunes playlists & exported libraries should be a lot more reliable now.
Other site features include music discussion forums, buddy lists, and private messages, I plan [...]
Thursday, November 22, 2007
I’ve uploaded the changes to the live my2unz.com site and updated the database. All of the original content is still intact. I disabled playlist import, however, since that feature hasn’t been thoroughly tested.
I’m now using standard CCK fields & standard views, along with the content template module for track, album, artist, and playlist forms rather [...]
Monday, November 19, 2007
Things have been pretty quiet with my2unz.com lately, but I have some big programming changes planned. I finally got a chance to do some work on it over the weekend.
The site uses a custom Drupal module for iTunes integration. In addition to importing iTunes playlist or library XML files, it also defines several content types [...]
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Drupal 5.3 was released with several important security fixes. I upgraded both MacMegasite & WorldBeatPlanet. The upgrade took only a few minutes and was painless.
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
I just had to repair a minor database problem at MacMegasite related to user points. I noticed that points weren’t being awarded properly for some members, so when I checked the database I saw lots of duplicate key errors in the userpoints table. The easiest way to fix it was to uninstall userpoints, install the [...]
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I’ve made a few improvements to my2unz.com over the weekend. I set up several color variations of the theme, and enabled theme switching. I also did some work on the iTunes module and changed the database tables slightly to add a few new features.
One of the problems with the previous version is that I considered [...]
I’ve added a few new features to My2unz and to my iTunes module.
I’ve enabled Events and allow members to create events.
I’ve enabled the favorites module, which lets members add a track, artist, album, or playlist to their favorites, which appears in their profile.
Track detail view now shows the members who own that [...]
My new iTunes playlist sharing site, my2unz.com is up. Registration is by invitation only - contact me for an invitation.
I wrote one custom Drupal module that imports an iTunes playlist or library exported as XML and handles specialized nodes for playlists & tracks. The rest of it is mostly standard Drupal modules. I plan to [...]
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
I’m almost finished writing the iTunes module. The import is working, but I still need to finish creating the views and menu commands. I’ve only had a few hours a day to work on this, since I’m busy with work.
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I added an iPhone theme to MacMegasite, based on the .mobi loader drupal module. When the site is viewed with an iPhone it will automatically use the alternate theme.
I got rid of the e-commerce module, which was a big pain. Instead I’m now using Amazon product nodes and I created a custom content type for CD Baby products. The store is now a new view which simply shows all Amazon and CD Baby product nodes. I can easily add other affiliates with the [...]
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