The New York State Senate website is now powered by Drupal. It's a feature-rich, dynamic, interactive, multimedia Web 2.0 site. The performance is smooth and quick, and I am sure that there is plenty of secure access control involved. I'm glad to see that my tax dollars are being deployed wisely.

In 2001 I had a great business idea that, like so many of my great business ideas, withered on the vine even after I had spent a lot of hours working on it. It was a case of not committing fully, really. My life at the time was full of other events and obligations.

Just wanted to share this experience to save headaches for any Drupal admins finding it difficult to update the Category module

If you have been getting strange behavior from Category, you are not alone. It's extremely powerful and robust and, as such, prone to easy breaking. It's one of those paradoxes of computer programming -- the more the program can do, the more intricate the code, the more buggy.

Anyway, if a search brought you here because you're banging your head against the wall trying to update this module, try this:

(Note: If you are trying to move a Drupal site to a new host, see the comment.)

As I've written before, one of the great things about Drupal is that it simplifies the management of many domains from one codebase. Surprisingly, Drupal also makes it incredibly easy to move entire websites from one domain (www.example.com) to another (www.anotherexample.com) or from a subdomain (subdomain.example.com) to a main domain (www.example.com). Confused? If you are, you might want to consider getting out of the webmastering business.

What I'm talking about is this: If I wanted to move this entire site from chucklinart.com to funnytechguru.com, I could do it in less than five minutes. Here is how:

Drupal makes it easy to keep it simple

What hassle! File this one in the "Don't make the same mistakes I made" folder.