(follow on article from part 2) Let’s review what we have done: We have cleaned up the old Drupal 6 website to make it as minimal, clean, and fully functional as possible. It’s just housekeeping and a good thing. We have installed an empty Drupal 7 content management system in a new web server (or

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(follow on article from part one) We are not focussed on running an upgrade here, instead, we are going to create a clean Drupal7 website and import (or migrate) the content into it. #2 – Setup a Drupal 7 installation for a Drupal6 upgrade So, we have the original Drupal6 website now running in a

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Las month my cousin, drumming demi-god Rob Litten asked me to help him upgrade his website. He has been running a very successful online drumming sensation called Drums The Word for a few years now. It’s a Drupal 6 eCommerce website running Ubercart focused on selling digital products — downloadable videos and drum lessons. We

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Katy Perry… PHWOAR! 😉 This antipodean beauty is working on her performance for the American Superbowl half-time show on February 1st 2015. How does she get inspiration? Well, it looks like she browses around Youtube looking for interesting dance videos, because she has tweeted that she watched one of *my* youtube videos :0 oooh a

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Since the first service pack (9860 or quickie update) to Windows10 Technical Preview my skype has stopped working. Researching this online, I found that some Win8.1 users also suffer from the same annoying problem. Hashtag bugger and darnation. All I see in Skype is this annoying message: Luckily, Microsoft is aware of the problem and

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Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in a militant Islamist attack. Four of the magazine’s well-known cartoonists, including its editor, were among those killed, as well as two police officers. Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30710883 Clearly, only the worst people alive could commit such terrible acts. If these

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Don’t know who Jibbers Crabst is? Watch this video and convert to Crustacenaity. He is our Lord and Savior and Lobster. Find salvation, convert to Crustaceanity and find the One Lobster Truth through our Lord and Savior™, Jibbers Crabst. The oatmeal is one of my most favorite online distractions. Matt Inman, the author of the aforementioned comic brilliance,

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SEU vs. RDi – what are the advantages?In the 1980’s and 1990’S the source code editor was a text based green screen tool (PDM/SEU) which i…Aug 5 2016www.nicklitten.com Why doesnt SEU let me enter the HANDLER keyword to my F-SPECS in RPG? Because, SEU is a code editing program that was designed decades ago (it

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Read lots of rows (records) into a data structure (array) Us IBM i blokes love reading things from files. Hashtag internet fact. But sometimes we just want to read a certain number of records, or rows in SQL speak. For example, when building a page by page subfile with say 15 lines per page, we

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So, my trusty old work horse (Herman the Honda) starter motor has been failing for a few months now, I’ve known it was on the way out but have been hoping that it would make it past christmas. Sadly, on Sunday (bloody Sunday!) it finally gave up and expired. I quickly procured a new starter

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I love my Family. The Litten clan is made from an eccentric bunch of family members spread far and wide across this wonderful world of ours. Diversity seems to define us with differing political views, religious beliefs and life goals. Variety is the spice of life. But we all share one common gene… the gene

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SEO Here’s a friendly, detailed(ish) list of some factors affecting Google, Bing, Yahoo! and the other search engines. It’s a loose guide to kickstart SEO exposure and what are the nice things to do and also, which things are a bit naughty. Obviously this is the tip of the iceberg, but it’s a useful brain stimulator

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