The Problem

We were recently asked by a member of staff to give them access to one of our websites on a laptop so that they could demo it at a meeting.

The Solution

I decided to go with Wampserver and a local copy of the site as the demo did not need to have the latest content.

We've recently started using the Service Calendar in CRM to record room bookings for our conference facilities and training rooms.

In order to make it as easy to use as possible we wanted to have only 3 status codes.  Under Open we kept Tentative and removed Requested and under Scheduled we change Pending to Need More Information and Reserved to Booking Complete.

I was recently doing a full update of Drupal core and modules on our Community Leadership Programme website.  Apart from the usual problems with Panels and Ctools there is a bit of pain if you update the SMTP module with Drush (probably goes for any other module that requires a third party download).

New NICVA site goes live www.nicva.org

big thanks to Feargal O'Kane, Chris Graham and Paul Gormley for making it happen.  

kudos to NICVA's information and communications team - Caroline Magee, Fiona Veitch and john McCormick for the unenviable job of sorting the content out.

www.nicva.org is the last of NICVA's websites to be ported to the drupal framework/CMS.    

Biggest thanks to all of those in the drupal community - as a small non profit organisation NICVA wouldn't be able to provide the range of online services we have without you.

DrupalCampBelfast site is live and ready for registrations

http://belfast.drupalcampireland.org

the lads did an exceptional job in getting the site live.  It was primarily done in everyone's own time apart from an initial day and sporadic bouts of emergency fixes.

Source code for commbuyer menu.

www.communityni.org is live.

Background

Microsoft's July patches appeared overnight, and range from 'critical' to 'important'. We've only waited a year to see an infamous ActiveX vulnerability plugged, so be relieved to see that a fix for that issue has been included, along with others that prevent remote code execution and could contribute to botnet infections and denial of service attacks.

All in all, this months patch tuesday has six patches for nine vulnerabilities.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/advance.mspx

Migrate data from MS SQL based CMS to Drupal 6

1,500 news articles
3,000 events
3,300 jobs
400 volunteering opps
5,000 organisations

Approach

use node import module
export content as CSV files - basic node requirements
import body content or extra fields via SQL updates

Organisations

Microsoft must be too busy with the upcoming release of Windows 7 to care about Patch Tuesday, we've had some heavy patching thus far in 2009 but come what may and all has gone quiet over at fortress M$.....

The highlight of May's Patch Tuesday is the issue  of a fix for a zero-day vulnerability in PowerPoint, all versions, which with the aid of WSUS we should be patched by the end of today.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/advance.mspx