Web and Mobile Apps Dev

I hadn’t write any blog post since last Thursday. The reason is because I had been playing around with Drupal. Drupal is a Content Management System that is similar to WordPress, in my experience, because it can install additional plugins as modules, custom themes, and add pages. However, Drupal has few other features that need to be configured externally if using WordPress, such as the ability to optimize the performance of the site by enabling compression. Perhaps I used WordPress for long time and don’t know how to use Drupal yet, I have not discovered any usefulness of Drupal over WordPress yet. I will continue to learn more about Drupal and improve my Drupal site at diary.robbychen.com. As you can see through the URL, I originally planed to start another diary blog using a CMS app and change the daily post schedule for this blog to irregular post schedule just like my Tumblr-based blog. I decided first to try Drupal because I tried Joomla before and I can’t seem to use it. I think I will try other CMS if Drupal also won’t work for me.

I also plan to update my main site robbychen.com beginning tomorrow since the spring semester is over. I decided to make this site as a portfolio site that include all the programming works that I have done in the past instead of a tutorial site because this domain name is based on my name and it doesn’t suited for a tutorial website or a commercial website. The current layout on the site is based on a commercial website. I will try to create my own site layout and I have decided to apply the color theme of the site based on the new Ubuntu Radiance theme.

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The ColdFusion to PHP project that I was promised back in January is not possible anymore because I couldn’t find the CA 278 files and can’t convert to PHP without these files. However, I’m organizing the CA 288 class files which is advanced ColdFusion programming. I will rewrote them with PHP as soon as the maintenance of these files is completed.