Some interesting content publishing systems

I test out a lot of content management/publishing systems. A lot.

As someone who runs a couple of websites, I make it my business to check out different publishing systems and see how they're cobbled together. Some systems are pretty straightforward to set up and conducive to publishing straight out of the box.

Ubuntu: How to share a wired internet connection

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Ever been stuck with a single, wired internet connection, but needing to connect more than one computer to the internet?

You'll be glad to know that with Ubuntu, it's easy to share an internet connection by creating an ad-hoc wireless network. It happened us recently on holiday - we had a single wired network connection, but two laptops. Both machines were wireless enabled.

Here's how to set up the connection:

The Torrevieja tourist train

Tourist train in Torrevieja

You can catch this little tourist train on the Paseo de la Libertad, just beside the markets in Torrevieja. It's incredibly cheap - costs about 2 Euro for an adult and 1 Euro for children - and it takes you right through the coastal part of the city right past Playa Los Locos.

Public telephone, Torrevieja, Spain

When I'm in another country, I love to take the occassional photo of everyday things like phone boxes and ticket machines. They're so damned foreign. Like the stuff you might find here, but different. Different colours, and littered with a foreign language. Sometimes you're lucky if there's an English translation.

Bar La Marina, Torrevieja

Sometimes the first thing you see when you enter a city becomes one of your abiding memories of that place. Bar La Marina in Torrevieja is a building I've never been inside, but it's the first place we saw when we came up from the underground car park nearby.

It's such an odd little building to find in a city like Torrevieja - a bungalow in a jungle of apartment blocks. Gleaming white walls with a rustic terracotta roof. It, along with the building across the road with the beautiful, ornate arches, is one of the first things I think of when I think of that city.

La Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, Torrevieja

La Iglesia del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús (or Sacred Heart of Jesus church) is a strikingly modern building in the centre of Torrevieja. I nver got to investigate the interior, because we were on a fleeting trip through the plaza in which it's situated, but the building itself is gorgeous.

The bleeding edge of Drupal 7

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I'm a very renegade web developer. I like to exist on the bleeding edge, and I'm waiting with baited breath for the next version of Drupal to be released.

My memory of the last big Drupal release - migrating from version 5 to 6 - was a frustrating affair. Though the new core code was available, very few of the contributed modules were available at the time Drupal 6 came out.

Anniversaries

This is going to be a strange post. But then it's a strange time, and my head is full of conflicting ideas and emotions and memories. So expect a jumble of words that may not entirely make sense and may not be in exactly the right order....

Inspiration: Drupal Showcases and Galleries

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I've got a couple of Drupal sites I'm planning to tidy up and work on over the coming months. Ideas for these sites are currently in flux, so I'm looking around to see other sites running on Drupal, what their features are and how they've been structured and designed.

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