Monthly Archives: March 2008

Some upgrades work, and others don’t

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

After yesterday’s success upgrading Gallery, I decided it was time to upgrade the Browncroft Neighborhood Association CMS. It was running Drupal 5.1, and I see from the Drupal web site that the currently supported versions are 5.7 and 6.1. So … Continue reading →

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Another weekend, another upgrade

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

A year or so ago, I tried to upgrade my Gallery from Gallery 2.1 to Gallery 2.2. I was promised all sorts of amazing new things if I did so, including much better CAPCHAs so I could re-enable comments. But … Continue reading →

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The change of life

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

I’ve always been a book learner. I’ve learned just about everything I know about computers from books, sometimes from books bought in order to learn something I said I knew to be read in between the time I said I … Continue reading →

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For the first time since learning Java, I wish I was doing C++

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

I started doing C++ back just before cfront 2.0 just came out. For those of you not paying attention, cfront was a program that turned C++ code into C code, and then fed that into the C compiler. There wasn’t … Continue reading →

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My Oscar

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

Well, not really mine. The division I work at just won their 9th Oscar, and to celebrate they sent it around to the division offices so everybody could get their picture taken with it. In spite of the fact that … Continue reading →

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