In June, I said I was “holding up” on moving to the new Drupal 7.0 because: a) Drupal 6 update method was broken and b) website maintenance was becoming expensive and cumbersome for Drupal 6. See blog post – http://www.comptoncoms.com/wordpress/2011/06/holding-at-drupal-6-20/ Truth is while I was waiting for 6 months – nothing happened. It seems that [...]
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Holding at Drupal 6.20
Posted by David Compton on June 22nd, 2011
In Nov. 2010, I wrote about updating a Drupal site and my alternate method that a lot of people use ( Drupal maintenance tough or tougher). Right now, that system is broken and I have delayed updating my sites. Take a look at the Drupal forum and you will see a lot of upset people [...]
Drupal cron fails us all
Posted by David Compton on May 30th, 2011
Online references: Solving Cron problems – http://drupal.org/node/553430 Cron fails – http://drupal.org/node/791554 Cron run failed – http://drupal.org/node/1077194 Cron failed to run – http://drupal.org/node/143519 Solution: 1) After deleting semaphore in Variable table…. 2) Set XML Sitemap module chunk size to 10,000. 3) Set Search Settings to “10 per cron” 4) Set PathAuto General settings from 50 to [...]
Drupal Flashvideo fix April 2011
Posted by David Compton on April 26th, 2011
Having problems with installing Flashvideo module in Drupal 6. Here is one solution.
Posted in Drupal 6, Video 
Tags: content type display, FFmpeg, Flashvideo module, Video 
No Comments »A video solution for Drupal 6
Posted by David Compton on April 11th, 2011
In my last blog, I said I was working on a project to put video on a new website. I was given two requirements. First, it must not require a video hosting service. And secondly, the solution must not require all flash. The website was to be in Drupal 6.20. The customer is a Mac [...]
Posted in Drupal 6 Tags: file attachment utilities, Flashvideo module, Jw Player, Longtail, Stylistics, Video No Comments »Drupal 6 “perplexing” video revisited
Posted by David Compton on March 29th, 2011
Video in Drupal 6 remain “perplexing” a year later, but keep tuned for a great player system.
FileDepot is Document Management for Drupal
Posted by David Compton on March 21st, 2011
Filedepot provides a quality document manager for Drupal that gives access control down to the user level.
Where is Drupal 7 design going?
Posted by David Compton on February 23rd, 2011
There are a lot of changes / improvements in Drupal 7 themes and already there are 110 available.
Drupal maintenance tough or tougher
Posted by David Compton on November 20th, 2010
Just completed three days of updating and upgrading Drupal 6 sites. I maintain three production sites and 5 test sites. It had been two months since the last updates and upgrades. To me an update is a code or security change to a contributed module and an upgrade is a security or code change to [...]
Drupal – no going back
Posted by David Compton on September 30th, 2010
The last day of summer is gone so the fun of goofing off in the summer programming pool is nearly over. It is time to make a programming choice and head into the fall serious about web development work. Will I throw everything into programming websites using Drupal or WordPress; or will I go back [...]
