Guus Bosman

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To New Jersey

Sat, 03/10/2007 - 6:23am

BagsIt's 6.20 am on Saturday and we're getting ready to leave to the airport.

Sasha had her last mid-term exam yesterday and now it's spring break! Time to enjoy and to celebrate her birthday with Irena and Jonathan.

Our plane is at 8.40 am, and we plan to be at the airport around 7.30 am so we'll leave in 45 minutes or so.

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dailylife

To the dentist

Thu, 03/08/2007 - 10:03pm

A few weeks ago I had my first appointment at my new dentist, and today I went back for some additional things.

The office is right next to ours which makes it convenient to go for an appointment. I really like their service -- very professional, very friendly. They gave me a tooth brush and and little tube of tooth paste.

In lighter news, a Duke graduate has invented a beer-tossing machine:

"It took the 22-year-old Cornwell about 150 hours and $400 in parts to modify a minifridge common to many college dorm rooms into the beer-tossing machine, which can launch 10 cans of beer from its magazine before needing a reload."

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driving

Tire pressure

Sun, 03/04/2007 - 4:30pm

Tire gauge.Today I added air to our car's tires for the first time.

We've driven around 9500 miles with the car now and last time a warning light for the tire pressure came on just before the service appointment, and I wanted to take action earlier this time.

A week ago or so I bought a tire pressure gauge -a fancy digital one- but the gauge in the air hose at the gas station was much easier to use. For some reason my digital gauge didn't give a reading on two of the tires, only after trying 6 or 7 times it worked.

It cost me $1.50 in quarters because it took a while before I had it all figured out, but now the pressure in all the tires is nicely around 30 psi.

When I drove away from the gas station I could feel the difference, or at least I imagined I could feel it.

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guusbosmannl

New website

Sun, 03/04/2007 - 12:47pm

Conversion complete.This morning I switched my website from PHP Nuke to Drupal.

Most work in the migration was writing a script to transfer the articles, specials, book reviews and comments from one database format to another. The script converted 121 users, 1693 stories, 42 book reviews, 30 topics, 65 specials and 1999 comments.

Now there is a lot of tweaking to be done over the next couple weeks. It's great fun to get to know Drupal, and I'm really happy with my choice.

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guusbosmannl

Ready for final testing

Sat, 03/03/2007 - 11:46pm

After a long, long day the migration is as good as ready. Tomorrow morning I only need to switch the settings in my Apache server, copy some pictures to their new location and the new site will take the old site's place.

Feel free to take a look:

http://test.guusbosman.nl

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guusbosmannl

Last things before the migration to Drupal

Sat, 03/03/2007 - 4:53pm

Here are the things I need to do before switching this site to Drupal:

  1. Fix bug in ordering comments (reuse code from system update 172)
  2. Migrate subtitles of Specials
  3. Add log message and use correct creation date in node_revision for story & page
  4. Migrate hostname of anonymous comments
  5. Migrate private attribute of stories
  6. Configure RSS feeds. Strictly speaking this can wait till after the migration but I want to be sure I know what's involved.
  7. Set the creation time of book reviews
  8. Filter out "Re:" in comment titles
  9. Filter out in stories
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guusbosmannl

Almost ready for migration to Drupal

Sat, 03/03/2007 - 4:24pm

Last week уе have been testing with the trial version of the new site. Jaap, Jean-Paul, Jerry, Mieke and Rob have found a couple of problems and suggestions for improvements.

Here's is what they found:

  1. Bug: the Recent Comment block doesn't show an author.
  2. Bug: The order of the comments looks strange. "I don't get the order of the comments. As I watch this news item, the comments don't look ordered by date. Do they? Should they?".
  3. Feature request: Use a default image for users that don't have an image & anonymous users.
  4. Feature request: perhaps it's useful to be able to delete your own comments.
  5. Bug: The signature (for comments) doesn't really work nice: you always have to "move it aside" before you can start typing a comment. The cursor isn't placed on a useful place.
  6. Feature request: It would be nice if the signature is visually separated from the comment by a line or something.
  7. Bug: Preview doesn't show HTML code.
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guusbosmannl

Recent Comments in Drupal, 2nd patch

Fri, 03/02/2007 - 9:33pm

Configuration option for the Recent Comments block in Drupal.While working on adding the author name to the Recent Comments block I saw a lot of feature requests on Drupal.org to make the amount of comments that is displayed in the block configurable.



Since I was working on that code anyway I created a second patch to allow the administrator to set the amount of comments shown.

Download the patch for Drupal 5.1 to make the number of comments configurable for the recent comments block.

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guusbosmannl

Recent Comments in Drupal

Fri, 03/02/2007 - 8:30pm

Configuration option for the Recent Comments block in Drupal.I've started testing a new version of this website. One of the testers commented on the Recent Comments block.


Unlike the current site's Recent Comments block (for PHP Nuke), the new site didn't display the author of each comment in the list with recent comments. I didn't like that either so I fixed it.

Tonight I've also made this change available to other users of Drupal with a patch. The source code of Drupal is much, much nicer than the PHP Nuke's code and I'm glad I'm finally making the move to a modern system.

Download the patch for Drupal 5.1 to add comment author names to the recent comments block.

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Bulgaria

Chestita Baba Marta

Thu, 03/01/2007 - 8:11am

Chestita Baba MartaIt's March 1st: Baba Marta in Bulgaria.

Nadia sent us martenitsi so I am wearing one today.

Chestita Baba Marta everybody!

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