I have been working on upgrading this site to run under Drupal 7 - not without its challenges - but the problems were solved one by one, until just one major one was left.

It turns out that the "Blog API" calls that enable external editors like Ecto to communicate with Drupal was removed from the core in the move to Drupal 7. And it is currently not available - so this is a showstopper for me.

On a positive note - the blog Api module project has reached its goals for chipin contribution and expects to have the module ready around January 1st - 2012.

So I'll wait for this.

I have played around the the Drupal Cache module - and could not even get it started with the default (simplest comfiguration when used according to the documentation.

The original states:

Installation
1. Enable "Cache" (from "Cache" package) module on
Admininster -> Site building -> Modules page.

2. SETUP WEB-SITE'S settings.php CONFIGURATION FILE

Add the following lines to your settings.php:

I have signed up to a Flickr Pro account for several reasons :

- To have a external backup of our photos

- To let me use Flickr as a proxy for serving images for the blog(s)

Normally all photos go into iPhoto - so this seems to be one of the sensible "hubs" for exporting to FLickr from, but the only direct plugin I could find was a "pay for" piece of software - until I thought of PixelPipe, which has a client for the iPhone, and a plugin for iPhoto.

This is a graphic of the spam that has been seen by Mollom over the last week or two:

(Click for larger)

I am somewhat intrigued by the big spike just after Mollom was introduced, followed by the sharp drop in spam.

I've just added FancyZoom to the site - it's a really nice module, that changes the treatment of any thumbnail image on the site - and zooms it in place using javascript - such as the one below :

FancyZoom 1.1
Thursday, February 07, 2008