3rd Week’s the Charm

Hi,

It’s been quite a quiet week this week. No terrifying alerts, or at least, not for long! This week I did some good work going through the backlog of issues/tickets that had been raised but not had any futher pdate on them in a while. We had a few things that were fixed but just no-one had gotten around to updating them. I tell you, our to-do list is much shorter now! It’s cut out a lot of the noise which allows us to focus on what’s really going wrong. With Kelly being back also it means that a lot of things we were unsure about, what we support/what we don’t support is being cleared up. This will make us a bit more efficient and better able to get on with our job. Always a nice position to be in.

I’ve been having a look into the Twitter API thing and it’s probably less complex than I think it is. My main problem is my inexperience including these sorts of things in basic webpages. I had a little fiddle with some PHP to do a different job - my tumblr blog is also now available on www.salixsys.org. I’m hoping to do a similar thing with the Twitter posts. I’ve yet to work it out though!

I changed the nameservers over last weekend so my dissertation project is now available at www.aberystwyth.salixsys.org though, as it’s an old installation of Drupal with a fair few outdatred modules it’s having some issues. Big ones. I’m going to work on that at the weekend. Steve however has been looking into the new version of Drupal for a possible re-vamp of our website. I’m not sure what I think about it. Some stuff the navigation for example, seems to be more sensible. And yet somethings are completely unintuitive. I think I will try a Drupal 7 install on a different subdomain (and merely update all the modules for my diss) to get to grips with it, see how it really works. I think that often it can be quite easy to use from a developer point of view but a simple user might not be able to get their head round it quite so easily.

We haven’t gotten as far as we would have liked with specc’ing up the display box. Picking out the bits you want is somewhat more difficult if you know what you want it to do, but not how! Plus there are so many variations that when you have other work to do it can be a bit overwhelming!


Still looking forward to Document Freedom Day, do email Laura at sales@siriusit.co.uk or drop her a tweet: @SiriusCorp if you’re interested in coming. I bought a new baking book so I might even make something from there, in addition to “Willow Brownies” of course. Please let us know if you’re even vaguely interested, that way we know how much food to get! I’m rediscovering my baking-fu, after quiet moment after Christmas, by making lots of cupcakes for my landlady’s granddaughter’s birthday - a fun weekend ahead!

Talk to you next week!