Archive for 2008

Drupal 6 and new Apress Drupal book


I have been working on a couple of projects using Drupal lately that required creating some custom modules. So again, I flipped thru my well-worn copy of Pro Drupal Development. Here is my earlier review of Pro Drupal Development. Drupal has released version 6 now. So I click ...

Using Subversion externals property for WordPress upgrades


I find that upgrading apps like WordPress, Drupal, Symfony and open source PHP apps is simple for less complicated environments, but once you start adding in things like new directories, custom themes/modules, source code control as well as separate development, test, and production systems, the upgrades start to get pretty ...

“SSL Error: certificate verify failed” for Amazon S3 using s3sync


Amazon has changed their certificates for SSL access to the S3 service.  If you are receiving this error and you are using s3sync, you can look here for new certs for SSL access to S3. Long term though, this is a problem with my (and possibly your) backup solution.  Look here ...

You know you’ve made it when the spammers start using your name.


All of a sudden, I have a bunch of returned email in one of my inboxes. Looking thru it, it appears that some spammer has been sending email thru various open relays around the world and using random names at this domain as the email address of the sender. ...

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