Upgrading Drupal 6 to 7

So, I’m finally going to take the plunge; first with a test, local site, and then with mattbirgit.de.

Only found one point to watch out for, in addition to the clear advice at:  http://drupal.org/node/570162: It really is important to update to the current Drupal 6 before upgrading; that isn’t just ‘in case’ some assumptions are not fulfilled; the update script refuses to even start without it.

Playing music in track order on the Samsung S5230 Star

I received this phone in order to test the Deutsche Bahn “Touch and Travel” system (the phone has NFC, and lets you buy tickets by touching little masts when you enter and leave various trains). By now, they figured out that not everyone will ever have NFC, and embraced QR codes in addition. Quite an […]

iPAQing kicking the iPhone’s ass

I thought I’d go for a provocative title, but let’s say from the outset that the iPhone is clearly better in many, many ways than the device I’m about to ‘ramble’ about…
My girlfriend, Birgit, has an iPhone. What’s more, she has a contract where you can pay €30 once, and you get a second SIM […]

Poison!

And so it is, the neverwhere of the day after Boxing Day. That day when you know you really should start doing some real work, but you can’t, either because you’re too full of Christmas cheer, or recovering from being poisoned by dodgy German-Chinese food.
So I figured I’d do some more PHP/web stuff, and that […]