Many months have passed since my last post, and a lot has happened.

And, by now, you have probably noticed one big change — this site is not running gasp or drupal (or wordpress for that matter).

I was playing around with gasp, in hopes of modifying it to work in a database-less (XML) mode. Fi...

Recently, I got an email from Dries Buytaert (CTO of Acquia) that I’d like to share with you.

Hello stevenjaycohen,

recently Mollom has been feeling kind of lonely. We noticed that your site https://stevenjaycohen.com hasn’t made any requests to Mollom for about two weeks.

If you decid...

After a short stint of a few months with Drupal, you may have noticed that, once again, this site is running GaSP.

Drupal is wonderfully powerful but was “getting in the way” instead of fascilitating creative expression.

So, I have resurrected the GaSP project. I am still doing a bit of cleani...

As you may have noticed, my site is no longer powered by Drupal. Let me start by saying that I have nothing against Drupal, I think it is a wonderful system, but… (and there’s always a but) when trying to upgrade to Drupal 7, I got stuck without being to fulfill the minimum requirements to install...

Until today, I have never been able to connect to my Drupal site using a blogging client with the blogAPI. The problem was not in the choice of client, my theme, my drupal install, or my host configuration.

I caused the problem by writing a custom trigger.

I created an action/trigger that re...

Often, while reading a web page, I will find something worth mentioning here on my site. The code below builds a Bookmarklet that makes a new blog entry with a prepopulated title and whatever text I have highlighted in the browser quoted in its body. This code also depends upon the Drupal Prepopula...

I love running my site in Drupal. But, there is one thing that I miss from my days using WordPress — Auto-discovery of my RSS feed(s).

It sounds like a small thing, I know, but when you use your website to push information around the internet, it really helps to have auto-discovery.

By defau...

I was looking through some old posts imported from my old site, and realized that it has been a long time since I’ve explained my choice of technologies to run the site. My first dynamic site was run by b2evolution. Both b2evo and WordPress were forks of an older system. And, over time, I trie...

There is nothing like the sense of accomplishment from a job well done. And, every once in a while, I get a design problem stuck in my head. Often, it is about attempting to work with limited tools.

With this site migration to drupal, I decided that my entire theme would be built in css, no hack...

I’ve just migrated the website from Google Sites to my own server running Drupal. I really enjoyed having my content on Google Sites, but there were a few features that Google just was not going to implement on the Sites system that I wanted to set up.

As you can see, I’ve skinned Drupal to look l...