Goodbye 2008
As the year winds down I figured it would be a good time to make a new blog post. I have been rather lax about posting here, spending most of my time on Facebook instead.
In a few days I will be starting my new job as a Senior Sysadmin for Facilities IT at Princeton University. I'm looking forward to the change in scenery. I leave behind a lot of friends and good memories at my last job. Despite Matt saying that I am now banned from New York I'm sure they'll see me again. Besides, if they ban me than New Jersey needs to ban all the bennies coming down from Staten Island during the summer.
My plans for launching the redesigned NJPB site in time for 1/1/09 probably won't come to fruition thanks to some distractions today. It was worth it, though.
In any event, here's to a great 2009!
Drupal 6 Update
I have been busy porting the site over to Drupal 6. Since Drupal 5 themes won't work with Drupal 6 I've had to go and make a new one. I am using the Zen theme engine since it's pretty dead simple to work with and the final result is far more attractive than what I have now. The site looks more Web 2.0-ish. Things are much simpler now, but there's some interesting eye candy in the form of dynamically generated drop shadows under the sidebar divs. It's so much easier than making tables and grey PNGs. Of course anybody who visits without Javascript (or using the stupid NoScript Firefox extension) will be out of luck but at this point the web is pretty much broken for folks that don't allow Javascript to run, so I am not going to stress too much over it.
Porting the content was the hardest task so far. Cut and paste, cut and paste. Boring, boring work made harder by various gotchas in the editors. I spent a lot of time fixing word wrap issues.
I'm hoping to launch the new site on Jan 1.