I've been seeing a bunch of best-of-the-year and (hard to believe) best-of-the-decade posts around the web. So I think I'll give it a shot.
I can think of three obvious posts, and I'll try to knock them all out before the end of the year.
- Top metal tracks of the decade
- Top metal albums of the decade
- Top metal bands of the decade
Each post would cover music released from 2000-09, and the ground rule would be that only one selection by a band can be included in any list. I think the lists will tilt towards traditional metal, with nods to bands I think are doing interesting work. Right now, I'm trying to decide if I need the new Woods of Ypres release.
Looks like API module flaked out on me. It had finished indexing the Domain module suite, and then it wiped everything out.
I will need to take some time to debug, but may not get a chance for a while. My apologies.
I'll be a part of Acquia's "Playing Nicely with Others: Integrating Drupal with Third-Party Data" this Thursday, December 3, 2009 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST.
My portion of the presentation covers territory that I have discussed at DrupalCamp Stockholm and at DrupalCON Paris. It revolves around how to import legacy data into Drupal, with an emphasis on XML and HTML imports. We will look at strategies for handling single-use and ongoing data imports, best practices in data migration, and some shortcuts tips and modules that just might do all the hard work for you.
I am setting up API documentation for the modules that I maintain. It is a little slow-going, since API module now uses JobQueue, and I can't seem to make the site parse multiple files in one pass.
Anyway, here are the modules that will be documented here:
With any luck, these will all be up and running by the end of the week.
At long last, I have gotten around to upgrading the site. I moved from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6. And at the same time, I consolidated my old WordPress 2.8.x blog into the Drupal 6 architecture.
Two tools make this possible. One, the pretty nifty WordPress import module for Drupal. (A hat-tip, as well, to WP's nice XML export feature). The second, of course, is Domain Access, which allows multiple subdomains to run from a single Drupal installation.
With Domain Access in place, I can branch out a bit, and separate different parts of the site (and my life) to different audiences. So, for instance, the main blog is still Second Goose, where I post work-related material. On the main site, TheRickards.com, will be the best from all sites, and maybe some family stuff (mostly dog photos, probably). For fun, there is \m/etal.therickards.com where I will talk about heavy metal and albums I like. And I set up API.therickards.com to host API documentation for various module that I maintain.
There may be a little dust flying around for a few days while things get settled. Hopefully there aren't too many broken links on the site. I also have to get ImageCache and its family of modules running later.
