Robin's blog

I hope the title describes the objective clearly enough. There's a justification of my personal choice of technologies here.

There were quite a few hurdles along the way and I tripped over most of them, but I picked myself up, dusted myself down, went back and took a harder run up and now I have a lovely working system. Well actually, I found a couple of great blogs that covered different parts. It goes something like this:

Step 1 - Install Ubuntu on Virtual PC

I wanted a clean Drupal installation to wheel out quickly whenever I start a new project so I set about building a virtual PC. I've posted separately about the technicalities here, but here are a quick few words about my choice of technologies. The factors are personal and wouldn't necessarily cut it as rigourous selection process, but you have to go with where you are in the moment.

The virtualisation software - Microsoft Virtual PC

It's terrible how the tiniest things can take the longest time. For months the search box on this site was visible in Firefox but not in Internet Explorer 6 and 7. It's a tale of stacking context and z-index that concluded a few minutes ago. Not that I worked exclusively on this problem for the entire duration.

After a couple of previous abortive attempts to get to grips with Drupal I'm pleased to report that I've finally gained a foothold with version 6.2. I've persevered with Drupal because the evangelical praise from its disciples convinced me there must be something in it that I was just too stupid to see.