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...

Over the last few weeks, I have completely rebuilt GaSP (both the front and back ends).

It is now fast, secure, and intuitive, while keeping the source code easily readable (Hey, I spent too many years as an educator for that not to be one of my goals). All of the changes inspired me to buil...

After a bit of a refactoring frenzy of late, GaSP can now intelligently reformat its content for mobile, tablet, and desktop computers. I big thank you goes out to the people behind PHP Mobile Detect for helping to make it this easy to implement.

Making GaSP mobile-aware lead me to re-examin...

Google Friend Connect offers a lot of features that are on my To Do list for GaSP. And, I have been keeping GaSP lean and fast in part by leaning on existing packages where I can. At this point, the only code duplication that I have would be the Comment System. It would be deprecated in favor...

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...