I finally got out and started training for the San Diego 3 Day. It was a short 3.5 Mile walk but at least it got me out and got things stretched out. The weather is finally decent and I needed to get out since we are just under 200 days now. I will probably do another couple short walks before kicking it up to 5 miles for a short time.
One of the concerns that I had when I was planning the conversion of my blog to drupal was the ability to post to my blog from my phone. I had found a utility that allowed me to to that under Wordpress and I wanted that with Drupal also. I found iBlogger and so far it is working out better than I had expected. Maybe I will post more often now.
You might notice the blog page looks kind of plain right now. I decided to get rid of the Wordpress software that I had been using and convert to Drupal. Drupal is the content management system that I have been working with. I have converted my blog entries but have not themed the site yet but it should look better within a week or so.
In my search to learn more about Drupal I have run across some pretty good podcasts that help users learn how to take advantage of this great content management system. One of the ones that I have been going through recently is a Video podcast from Mustard Seed Media. This is done by one of the guys from Geeks and God and I really like it. He does short Video podcasts that show you how to work with drupal from a designer perspective and I am finding them very useful.
For the last couple of years I have been doing all my Web development and testing using a Linux Virtual Machine that allowed me to setup a development image that was close to what my actual production environement was. This worked pretty good but I probably wasted quite a bit of time building the system and installing all the write tools. I found a new tool for my Mac called MAMP that is going to mean I won’t have to waste that time in the future. This MAMP program installs the Apache, MySQL, and PHP environements on my Mac and the Pro version includes some tools to allow me plenty of control over virtual hosts, mysql databases, and the apache modules that are loaded. I wish had found this months ago. I have been testing this for a couple days now and it works great. The sites load and work locally just as they do on their hosts and I no longer have to keep Fusion running with a Linux VM all the time. The Pro Version is $58 and well worth the money in my opinion.