Since last Friday there has been a lot of stuff that has happened in my little world. I can't explain everything yet but I will soon.

For now I can tell you that I am now the maintainer of Drupal E-Commerce. This is going to be a lot of work, as I need to get it ready fro Drupal 4.7, and make the changes to support the formsapi.

There is 31 modules that need to be converted as quickly as possible so we can start testing. Drupal 4.7 is going to be one of the biggest jumps in functionality that Drupal has seen in quite a while. With all the new autocomplete, free tagging, and a lot of speedups and api changes it is quite hard for module maintainers to keep up.

I have also been looking though some of ecommerce an I think there is some other things that need to be consolidated or are now obsolete and can be done with drupal core commands now.  

I am going to be looking at the store module in ecommerce this weekend and hopefully this will help kick start other people working on other module so we can get this completed.

Lastly my little module filestore2, also needs upgrading, and as soon as I can I will update it to use the formsapi.

Watch this space for more information.

Yesterday we got the TV week, and in it was some junk mail from Jamster, which were advertising a whole heap of crazy frog stuff.

When Sam picked it up, she started mimicking the crazy frog.

Advertising works so well on kids.
 

Well last weekend was fun. It started on Thursday when we had a power outage which my little firewall/mail server did really like too much. Basically it wouldn't come back up at all. When I got home that night I managed to get it back up and running, but the hard drive was dead!

With all my mail on the harddrive, I was not feeling very good about this, and I have been having problems with my backup tapes so I was not too sure how much of my mail I had. I did work out on Friday that I had it all as I had evolution copy all my mail for off line reading, so I just put evolution offline, and copied it all to a local folder. I was safe.

I have been quite busy with some work laterly, but I was muching around with acidfree which looks like a cool (if I can every get the bloody thing to work), and noticed that it was linked with a module called filemanager. Now filemanager from my brief look, seems to do everything that I want fscache to do and more.

So with a bit more playing and I think that I am going to change filestore2 to use filemanager instead of fscache. I need to do a lot of work on both filestore2 and fscache to bring it upto scratch for Drupal 4.7, but with a few minor changes I should be able to link it into filemanager and leave fscache behind.

If all goes well I may even do this for 4.6 and backport filestore2.

At this stage it is going to be a few weeks, and I am hoping to catch on some of my projects during the Christmas break, which will be fun. 

Last week I finally got my operation done, and had these lumps removed. The ones on my left leg have been giving me the most problems but this seems to be settling down now. I have actually had a couple of bad days, and 1 where I had trouble getting off the couch. This seemed to be problems with the stiches when they were uncovered, so I got them covered back up again and all seems well. I am going to be getting the stiches out in the next week so I should be feeling a lot better.

Last weekend Sarah and I got out Christmas present for us. We picked up some outdoor funiture which is really good. I think this year we are going to be having a lot more BBQ's. We have already had 2 and I seem to be in the zone when it comes to cooking the food. It just comes out great.
 

I upgraded by x40 lastnight to use 2.6.14 and suspend2. I even managed to get the framebuffer working, and now I am using suspendui_fbsplash which is so cool.

The suspend2 is so much faster than the standard suspend that is currently in the linux kernel, and now seems to be realy starting to get much more stable. 

I think that I am going to need to create a new theme for it so that I can use the same theme as the ubuntu linux usplash to make it look really nice.

I also got the hdaps working (I think) which shows the orientation of the laptop and also parks the hard drive if it started to accelerate too much. 

I had some kind soul build a patch to allow htmlarea to use the new forms api that drupal is using. I found this really cool, and I have applied it.

This actually gave me the boost I needed and I fixed up all problems the use of the hook_form_alter() and now is working really great.

ATM HTMLArea is the only WISIWYG editor that will work with Drupal 4.7. I am not sure on the status of the others or how far off they are. I know that tinymce might be a little while as Matt is quite busy ATM, unless he has some kind soul make the change. 

Well things didn't go as expected over the weekend. We did get to the show as we hoped, but instead ended up a the doctors.

On Sunday morning besides the present thing we tidied up the garden ready for a the first barbee of the year for Sam's birthday. Once we had finsihed Xander was complaining about sore a eye and when we looked. Well his eye was so swolen the white of his eye was bulging out, so we need to rush him to the doctor.

Basically it turned out to be a very extreme case of hay fever, and we just need to get some eye drops to fix it. But it was kind of scary.

Sams birthday went well and everyone had a lot of fun.

Hopitals  

Sometimes you really have to hate hospital waiting lists. I have to go to Hospital to get a couple of lumps removed and last Monday I finally thought that it was going to happen.

Last Monday was actually a good day for me to do this, as Melbourne Cup was the next day and so I only had to take off a single day.

So last Monday after staving all morning and then going through the hasle of getting all signed in. I was then told that my operation had been cancelled. What made it worst was that they had a no show, and didn't get slotted into there.

So after getting mucked around and stuff I am booked in for the 14^th to try this again. I hope that this time things don't get stuffed up.

Sams Birthday

On a slightly better note, Samantha will be turning 2 next Sunday. She has already had a bit of a party last Friday when Sarah and the kids had a bit of a party with play group, so we are not going to be doing much.

 The one thing we are going to do is go to the Whittlesea Show which is similar to the Royal Melbourne Show except it doesn't cost as much.

I know that this year I have been really slack with pictures, but I am wanting to get the pictures up as soon as I can.

Since I got my X40 back in April, I have always wondered if it had Bluetooth. On the underside it has a label for the bluetooth device, but I couldn't find it. I would run a lspci and I just couldn't identify it.

So the other day I was searching the net and ran across thinkwiki which has alsorts of interesting information. One piece of information was how to activate the bluetooth. Just press fn F5 and this enables the bluetooth under ubuntu linux.

It works really great, and I just need to make some changes to the ubuntu acpi network scripts so that I can cycle through the wire-less networks so I can have 1 turned on and the other not.

Thinkwiki is a great resource, Thanks.