In the three weeks since we’ve been back from our nice, long, relaxing and wonderful holiday in Spain, life has been absolutely hectic.

Work: I’ve been to Dublin for a couple of days to kickstart the work for a new contract, and have a review on the ongoing work on an exisiting one due for delivery at the end of September. Also, non stop talking to recruitment agencies and doing interviews for more developers to help us with the increase in work we’ve had coming in.

Home computing: After waiting for what seems like forever for Gallery 2 to be released, I noticed that Release Candidate 1 was available. I took the plunge and migrated the photo galleries from Coppermine. This was a major exercise including writing scripts to pull data from Coppermine, making import files for Gallery 1 and then running upgrades into Gallery 2. Further scripts changed all the pictures currently in blogs and changed them into links into Gallery 2. After this, there was much tidying up and retraining for Alison and mum. While all this was happening, release candidate 2 was made available, so another upgrade had to be made!

On route, I found a couple of bugs in WPG2 which embed Gallery 2 inside the Wordpress blogs I run. Ozgreg was very helpful in bottoming out the issues, and everything now seems quite smooth and seemless.

More home computing: I wrote an article about my experiences of trying to set up a Drupal site after being such an avid Wordpress fan. As a consequence, I was goaded into porting a very useful Wordpress plugin called Bad Behavior, which helps control comment, trackback and pingback spam, to Drupal.

Home: Over the last two weekends I have driven 600 miles visiting friends and relatives. Both cars have had MOTs, mine has been serviced. We have joined a karate club which has the beginner classes on Saturday mornings and I have been keeping James’ swimming lessons up taking him down the teaching pool on Sunday mornings. I did manage to squeeze in a Spanish lesson yesterday.

Things are now settling down a bit, so may be I’ll be able to write a little more in here again.