As you might have read earlier on this blog, I’ve been self-hosting this website along with a lot of friends and clients on a rented server at EasySpeedy. I have done this for about 18 months, and it’s been fun to have my very own webserver with 2 GiB RAM and the works, but as I’ve come to realise, this is a huge waste of money and resources.

Drupal’s popularity has really taken off on these parts – the last year has seen amazing growth, from a few hobbyists people meeting in Copenhagen now and then to large and respectable organisations deploying Drupal in really ambitious projects.

One of the things I have noticed as a result of the change, is how many that do not understand the why’s and the how’s of Drupal’s development.

For some weeks, I have on-and-off been trying to create my own mirror of cvs.drupal.org in Git, and now it seems I've finally succeeded.

I have set it up with Gitweb and everything, and it seems to have complete fidelity with regards to the original data. It has all the branches/heads and tags that Drupal has, meaning that you can use checkouts from this reppository to keep your Drupal installations up-to-date.

Here's the links:

Gitweb: http://git.lion47.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi
Repository (git clone this): http://git.lion47.com/drupal.git/

I was doing some work on a site today, and I found me in a bit of a jam. I'd rather not spend a lot of time (as I have done so far) writing all kinds of code to get aroud Drupal's default styling.

I'd also rather not completely forego Drupal's CSS, because nice modules like admin menu depends on it. So what to do?

As you might have discovered by now, I've changed the theme for this website. I downloaded a theme named niftyCorners, and now I intend to customize it. I look forward to getting a design with a bit more character on this page.

Also, Drupal was updated yesterday, so I've updated all my sites to 4.7.1. It went like a breeze. Good job, Drupal-people.

[img_assist|nid=43|title=A truly monstrous printer|desc=Our new printer, the HP 3550N. Big, isn't it?|link=node|align=right|width=100|height=48]In other notes, we got a new printer at the office yesterday. It's a wizzy color laser printer, the HP Color LaserJet 3550n. It is a really good color printer, actually, and it was a breeze to set up on my computer, due to the nice linux-drivers HP provides. But most of all, this printer is really big. I have taken a picture of it, dwarfing our fileserver and even my old 19" screen. It's just huge. Enourmous. Monstrous.