Well I had a very busy and interesting Christmas. I think that the 3 days before Christmas I only got about 10 hours sleep.

22 Dec - I had to pick my sisters up from the airport at midnight, and because I had not seen Tarsha for a couple of years we stayed up  and chatted anf caught up. It was ok for her as they had come from Perth which is 3 hours behind Melbourne.

23 Dec - I got woken up early by the kids and I had to do some work. I really didn't get much done. That night we all went off to Lion King, which was great. We were up in the nose bleed section but still we could see everything really well. Except Sarah did have a stupid woman in front of her which kept on moving backwards and forth.

24 Dec - Once again I got woken up early. I was starting to be a bit of a Zombie. During the day I didn't get much done, and I dropped my sisters off at the airport for their trip back to New Zealand. Once we go the kids to bed we then needed to put out all the presents and set up the darn swings. 3am on Christmas morning we were just finishing. These kids better like this.

By the time it got though to Christmas night both Sarah and I were shattered. I hope that other people had a good Christmas.

Since last Friday there has been a lot of stuff that has happened in my little world. I can't explain everything yet but I will soon.

For now I can tell you that I am now the maintainer of Drupal E-Commerce. This is going to be a lot of work, as I need to get it ready fro Drupal 4.7, and make the changes to support the formsapi.

There is 31 modules that need to be converted as quickly as possible so we can start testing. Drupal 4.7 is going to be one of the biggest jumps in functionality that Drupal has seen in quite a while. With all the new autocomplete, free tagging, and a lot of speedups and api changes it is quite hard for module maintainers to keep up.

I have also been looking though some of ecommerce an I think there is some other things that need to be consolidated or are now obsolete and can be done with drupal core commands now.  

I am going to be looking at the store module in ecommerce this weekend and hopefully this will help kick start other people working on other module so we can get this completed.

Lastly my little module filestore2, also needs upgrading, and as soon as I can I will update it to use the formsapi.

Watch this space for more information.

Yesterday we got the TV week, and in it was some junk mail from Jamster, which were advertising a whole heap of crazy frog stuff.

When Sam picked it up, she started mimicking the crazy frog.

Advertising works so well on kids.
 

Well believe it or not it is that time of year again and it was time for Xander and Samantha to go see Santa.  I thought for sure there was not way I was going to get the two kids to sit on Santa's knee but they both did and we got this fantastic photo.  I was so happy with it that I wanted you all to see it.  Merry Christmas everyone.  Sarah. xxxx    To see the image click here

Well last weekend was fun. It started on Thursday when we had a power outage which my little firewall/mail server did really like too much. Basically it wouldn't come back up at all. When I got home that night I managed to get it back up and running, but the hard drive was dead!

With all my mail on the harddrive, I was not feeling very good about this, and I have been having problems with my backup tapes so I was not too sure how much of my mail I had. I did work out on Friday that I had it all as I had evolution copy all my mail for off line reading, so I just put evolution offline, and copied it all to a local folder. I was safe.

I have been quite busy with some work laterly, but I was muching around with acidfree which looks like a cool (if I can every get the bloody thing to work), and noticed that it was linked with a module called filemanager. Now filemanager from my brief look, seems to do everything that I want fscache to do and more.

So with a bit more playing and I think that I am going to change filestore2 to use filemanager instead of fscache. I need to do a lot of work on both filestore2 and fscache to bring it upto scratch for Drupal 4.7, but with a few minor changes I should be able to link it into filemanager and leave fscache behind.

If all goes well I may even do this for 4.6 and backport filestore2.

At this stage it is going to be a few weeks, and I am hoping to catch on some of my projects during the Christmas break, which will be fun. 

Last week I finally got my operation done, and had these lumps removed. The ones on my left leg have been giving me the most problems but this seems to be settling down now. I have actually had a couple of bad days, and 1 where I had trouble getting off the couch. This seemed to be problems with the stiches when they were uncovered, so I got them covered back up again and all seems well. I am going to be getting the stiches out in the next week so I should be feeling a lot better.

Last weekend Sarah and I got out Christmas present for us. We picked up some outdoor funiture which is really good. I think this year we are going to be having a lot more BBQ's. We have already had 2 and I seem to be in the zone when it comes to cooking the food. It just comes out great.
 

I upgraded by x40 lastnight to use 2.6.14 and suspend2. I even managed to get the framebuffer working, and now I am using suspendui_fbsplash which is so cool.

The suspend2 is so much faster than the standard suspend that is currently in the linux kernel, and now seems to be realy starting to get much more stable. 

I think that I am going to need to create a new theme for it so that I can use the same theme as the ubuntu linux usplash to make it look really nice.

I also got the hdaps working (I think) which shows the orientation of the laptop and also parks the hard drive if it started to accelerate too much. 

I had some kind soul build a patch to allow htmlarea to use the new forms api that drupal is using. I found this really cool, and I have applied it.

This actually gave me the boost I needed and I fixed up all problems the use of the hook_form_alter() and now is working really great.

ATM HTMLArea is the only WISIWYG editor that will work with Drupal 4.7. I am not sure on the status of the others or how far off they are. I know that tinymce might be a little while as Matt is quite busy ATM, unless he has some kind soul make the change. 

Well things didn't go as expected over the weekend. We did get to the show as we hoped, but instead ended up a the doctors.

On Sunday morning besides the present thing we tidied up the garden ready for a the first barbee of the year for Sam's birthday. Once we had finsihed Xander was complaining about sore a eye and when we looked. Well his eye was so swolen the white of his eye was bulging out, so we need to rush him to the doctor.

Basically it turned out to be a very extreme case of hay fever, and we just need to get some eye drops to fix it. But it was kind of scary.

Sams birthday went well and everyone had a lot of fun.