Milestone Thing

Another milestone for this site. It appears I went live with muddylaces.ca 2 years ago today.

Hurray for me.

It has been a fun side project. I am definitely diggin the This Day In block that I implemented after seeing something similar on coremans site. The biggest thing I want from this site is to make sure I don’t forget stuff. This allows me to quickly and easily see the things I recorded.

Upgrade Somehow

look before you leap

I am just about to undergo an upgrade here on muddylaces. Drupal just release version 4.6. Their upgrade instructions are making me wonder if I really want to upgrade. It is not so much an upgrade of the software as it is a complete redo. Files have been replaced and moved, so many things won’t work properly. They recommend backing up (always a good idea), the completely removing the old code, replacing it with the new stuff. Gah. Lots of work. Will tackle later I think.

I did upgrade Gallery to version 1.5 yesterday. That one was super simple, except that somehow my css got lost. Fortunately that was easy enough to recover.

leaping into action

Block Efficient

brick by brick I build this site

Tonight I implemented a new block of functionality for muddylaces. Much like coreman.com I now have a block that will provide a link to previous years posts for this day. This will only be shown when there is a post to be displayed. It was a fun little exercise. My implementation isn’t the most efficient, but it works for now. If I had a lot more traffic, I would have to change things a little.

Hour Version

tools for working

Well, I just spent the last hour or so doing some site upgrades. First I upgraded my Gallery version to it’s latest.

Then I spent a lot more time upgrading my version of Drupal to 4.5.0 There are some cool things about this new version, but once again I need to redo my theme. That is alway a pain in the ass. I think I got everything else upgraded and working again though. If I missed something, just shoot me an email.