I have noticed a lot of comments on the burden of upgrading Drupal versions, recently due to Drupal 6.10, just made available. A lot of those comments on the time it takes and the down time conversely experienced by the visitors to the site.
I am using an series of upgrade steps that minimise the down, or 'in maintenance' time' for the user. Here they are. Please use at own risk and benefits. :)
With Drupal, often people come across the very worrying "user warning: Illegal mix of collations".
This is the result of some tables being created, with the wrong, or different" collation sequence, usually after installing a new module.
To fix this, you will need to change the collation of the columns and of the tables that give you this error.
I have been working on a new post for two days now. I am not happy with it as it appears, and really is too much of a rant. Consequently I have not published for 48 hours either. And although my erstwhile intention was, and still is, to make at least five posts a week on this site, this seems to be already in jeopardy.
We have all experienced both. In fact we experience them every day. They not only affect the web viewing experience but also the presentation of any GUI based computer application to a user. Command lines application tend to be fluid, but not always.
Well what a wonderful experience in wasting time. This morning I started writing a tutorial on Views2 for Drupal. In doing so, I decided to have a quick look at the documentation available. I remembered that when I first started investigating Views I installed the advanced help module as it had some documentation on the Views module. On re-reading that documentation I have come to the conclusion that it is the best documented module for Drupal, certainly of all the modules that I investigated, and that is about 200 of them, far from all available ones, of course.
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