What's Next?

Obviously, I haven't been writing much lately. Part of the reason is my brother's death and the other part is I really haven't had anything to write about. I mainly write on technical subjects that are my way of sharing the lessons I have learned regarding getting a particular functionality working. Fortunately or unfortunately, everything seems to be working just fine so I don't have any technical issues to write about.

The obvious solution is to this problem is to change something. I'm currently working for an old boss of mine with a co-worker who also reported to her building a web site using Drupal. After taking a look at Drupal, I've decided to move my blog from WordPress to Drupal. WordPress is a great blogging platform but I'd really like to have better integration between my blog and my web site. From what I've seen of Drupal, it looks like it can provide that integration. This also gets me more acquainted with Drupal so, hopefully, I can better contribute to the web site site development project I just mentioned.

My plan is to have the "in progress" Drupal incarnation of my combined blog/web site available as I make the transition. I want to make sure that any intermediate Drupal implementation is secure and apparently stable but I'm hoping to otherwise show how I go about the transition process. If it appears worthwhile, I may "snapshot" some of the in progress implementations and continue to make them available even after they are "left in the dust." At some point I will write (and post) perl code to slurp my existing blog out of WordPress and put the content into the Drupal site.

As always, questions or suggestions are welcome.

Cheers,
Dave