Patrick Teglia

So this week I had to get search_files module for Drupal 6 running on a shared host, Bluehost, for one of my customers. I had promised that we would be able to search his PDF files, but I didn't realize that search_files, as well as search_attachments modules require a Linux command line utility named pdftotext to be installed.

I did request that Bluehost install it on my box and was told that anything requiring root access wasn't going to happen.

Fine, maybe I can run it myself, after all, I did get SVN running on Bluehost, how hard could it be?

Here are a couple of pointers on getting VirtualBox OSE running on Kubuntu from my recent install.

Today wasn't the first day I have been asked this, but here is the usual question, and my answer:

Woot, it's my birthday, and now I am older. Thanks to all the good people on Twitter who wished me a good one!

Really I don't put a lot of stock in birthdays, but it is a good chance for my wife and I to have some together time and a great opportunity for the grandparents to get some grandchildren time.

Today, I am going to go see...

This morning, before our morning walk, and other family affairs, I poked around making Drupal my personal wiki. Why, that's probably what your asking? Drupal is a CMS, or CMS framework, and there are alternatives to Drupal for sure when it comes to wikis. PHPWiki, DokuWiki, MediaWiki, even the hosted PBWiki all come to mind.

Well, let me tell you that those wooden play sets are not the easiest thing I have ever built. I have built furniture for a job when I was younger, and never have I project as large as the swing/slide/fort that I built for the kids yesterday.

We got up pretty early, and I think I was started by 8 or 9 in the morning. I finished up about 10:30, at night, with my wife doing the hokey pokey in front of the motion sensitive light so that I could put in the last couple of turns of the wrench.