Moved hosting which allows me greater control.

Everything seems to run smoothly and faster, fingers crossed.

I added an English and Dutch category allowing me to post in two languages and easily split those posts up.

I changed to another hosting provider. After some minor issues with the .htaccess files it seems everything is working now.

/me keeps his fingers crossed...

On one of the Drupal IRC channels somebody mentioned he had problems using themes designed for 6.x on his 6.6 installation. I decided to try one out myself and I choose the Acquia Marina theme which was originally designed for the Acquia version of Drupal. As far as I can tell everything works as expected.

Seems nice though, doesn't it?

I added a Blogroll to my website.

Blogroll

A list of blogs, usually placed in the sidebar of a blog, that reads as a list of recommendations by the blogger of other blogs.

Most blog publishing applications ship this functionality by default or provide a custom module. Unfortunately I couldn't find a suitable Drupal module to do this - the existing module is horribly out of date - so I attempted to create one using CCK, Link and Views. CCK and Views are relatively new to me but I start to understand why they are so powerful and why people love these modules so much.

The only thing I will do in the near feature is to create a page containing all the links with a small description of the website and limit the number of items in my Blogroll block so it doesn't grow out of proportion.

It came to my attention that my hosting provider seemed to have upgraded the database server this website is using which finally allowed me to upgrade my Drupal installation to version 6.5 which has been released earlier today due to some security issues. More information about those issues can be found in the report SA-2008-060 for those who care.

So far the upgrade seemed to have gone smoothly and no side-effects occur.

I finally got the time to update my website. I removed all the useless previous stuff and I am starting with a blank website.

I have found that I'm not a top blogger so I will focus more on the things I actually do than the things I want to do so this website will eventually become my portfolio, testing ground and rant organizer.