drupal

Drupal 6.6, now. Had security updates and such. I really ought to automate the process of updating but I'm way too nervous about it to just not do it by hand. :P

Eventually I'll have to update everything to D7, anyway, I don't think the python route will be happening for a while longer since I'm lazytastic at figuring it out. Heh.

The other big thing was updating various modules like Views, Content Construction Kit, Date, etc... fortunately the people working on those seem to be working together to ensure their modules work right together, so that's nice.

Well, that's probably the most productive thing I've done in weeks, if you don't count my RPoL games...

(some ramble about them below)

I've been working at reorganizing tags *again*. This is version 4.0, since I ended up expanding a lot from the 3.0 I wrote earlier.

I still have to go through 700-odd entries to resort everything. ;.; But I have the basic layout MOSTLY figured out.

Also, amusingly, when I switched out "Outing" as a category, the tagcloud block (which, by the way, has exactly 23 tags in it) finally ended up displaying the "kalli" tag. :D Admittedly, I don't know what will happen after I'm finally done going through all the entries and retagging them... flushing the cache may change the positions on the cloud all over again. ^^;

So, here's an overview of what I changed...

I have a forum :O

This one's pretty simple, it's just made with Drupal modules. So all you have to do is register and login to my site to use it. Not sure whether it'll get any traffic, but figured I'd put it out there and give it a shot.

I'm still debating whether I want to put the recent forum posts block yet. Hmm. Right now I have recent comments, but that's 'cause sometimes I miss people's comments.

Oh well... I got to stop working on this, no good being insomnic when I have something to do early tomorrow. :(

I was going to wait till I reorganized tags to update to 6.4, but I'm still stuck, so... decided to do it anyway, since it's a security update.

Also, I updated some of my modules, namely CCK (Content Construction Kit, for custom form field types), Date (a CCK add-on that specifically works with dates) and Token (which is used mostly for 'pathauto' which auto-creates URL aliases).

Changing Date took a few hours of work because it seems the way the module handles dates is being altered. Now dates can have a range, without having to create two separate date objects to do it. I didn't want to have to hand-edit all of my existing Event data (which I use for the announcement block) so I just deleted the entirety of them. :O I don't really have any new announcements to put up yet, so I just made some test ones and messed around till I got it right.

Well, that done, I'm still feeling particularly non-social... not having a good day. :( Maybe I'll pop by tomorrow. But I won't guarantee it. Definitely by Thursday though.

Drupal 6.4 is out now so I'm gonna have to do my upgrade sometime soon. Probably this weekend? Soon, anyway.

Also, I'm excited. I may have a better arrangement for Darksiren Tags 3.0!! I'm going to go and work with the new rearrangement as soon as I have tiiiime.

Here it is, just for my records and for people who may actually be curious for some reason (yeah right):

Finally updated to Drupal 6.3, a security update.

Wasn't much to tweak, just had to remember my hacks for taxonomy.module (to sort taxonomy by weight and name) and taxonomy.pages.inc (depth = 'all' instead of depth = 0). Oh, and the latest Views release candidate introduced some small changes that had me go into the announce_block view to fix how it displayed the date field. (It was putting a label I didn't want.)

More or less it was a painless update (as it often is) so woo! I could either do more tag cleaning, or just sit here and space out at the screen. :P

*stares*

...or I could try to update Marinelli theme. I'm a version behind, but I rewrote enough code from the original that it'll be a bit of a pain, considering the fact I am all lazy about learning to use a revision control system. I really should get into that habit sometime soon. :/

Ugh... for some reason I'm way too hot, even though it's 2 am and I have the huge fan at my back. I think I must just be stressed out. :/ Some difficult stuff happened (not to me, though) that got me all tensed up. So I'm gonna lie down soon.

I spent the whole day in DR, and not actually getting many survival ranks. I've just been tweaking these training scripts Manze gave me, which led to a rash of redoing old scripts I already wrote before, and adding some new ones, too. I've got almost everything that I'd actually like to script scripted. :O

And Talliska has something like 12 ranks of general survival until circle 33.

I'm gonna run D&D 4e tomorrow (well, later today!) I'm not all that prepared, but I'm still going to try and test stuff out with Kalli and Jon. I suppose we'll just try and see what happens. :O There's a lot of rules in the DM book, but I think I'm just going to use the basic XP total guidelines and put random stuff per room, and traps. (Dun dun dun!)

Just did a few changes to the node layouts. So exciting, huh? :P

I decided (after editing Talliska's journal to do the same) that I'd only display categories on the teaser, and put the tag list at the very end of the full node view. Makes things look less cluttered, though it doesn't actually reduce db queries, since I have to traverse the terms *anyway* to pull out the categories separate from the tags. But that's to be expected.

Also I tweaked the code so the author/date/categories will only display for blog entries. (Pages are static, and events have their own dates on them anyways.) And I went into contemplate and edited the node template for events so it wouldn't use <h3> any more.

Now I really want to play Talliska in DR, but I keep futzing around with the journal instead! =_= And making things like this (a placeholder page, helped me practice basic CSS) and this (made with Nucleus - I'll stick a PSU screenshot in the layout later to make it look more interesting.)

(Also, this post ended up LONG!)

But I've mostly gotten things set up the way I wanted them, now. Here's some of the annoying things I had to contend with:

1) The user login box had odd formatting for the list bullets. I was actually ranting to Kalli about this for a while. I finally fixed it, by taking out the line-width argument the creator of my base theme (it's called marinelli, by the way) stuck in the loginblock CSS.

2) I made the BAD mistake of trying to activate the theme developer module packaged with devel. I don't know WHAT was wrong with it, but it started eating my PHP memory like crazy whenever I loaded the modules page. Geez... I had bumped up the max allocation in php.ini to 40M and it was still trying to allocate more! And it started spitting bunches of raw code at me, too.

Bleargh... I hate CSS. I really, really hate CSS!

On the other hand, though, I have Drupal 6.2 running now, after a day of slaving over database backups (I had to do a restore at one point, it was painfully slow and nervewracking), manually updating modules, having to redo my URL aliases at least twice, and *re*-learning Views because Views 2.0 has an entirely different layout to it. (I managed to get all my views working again, though, woo.)

I'm still poking at various little niggling details of things. Having such a beautiful monitor is a blessing and a curse... I *love* the way my site looks on my screen, but some of the colors just look horrific on Jon's. Argh. I grew out of sticking to web-safe colors a long time ago, so I guess that's to be expected, but it's annoying looking over his shoulder and thinking to myself "Bleah, that looks SO much uglier than I thought it did!"

Oh, I managed to find a non-database query intensive way to print categories and tags per entry. But I still have to tweak the full views... now they print tags twice. WTF! Ahhhh, going to be a long night still, I can tell.