What happened to my old site? Spam. That's what happened. Not your juicy pork variety.... the other kind. My old site was running on Joomla, and I had a comment module installed so people could leave comments on my many... er... couple of posts I had up on the site for the past two years. A month or two ago, I started getting comment spam. Yes, I had a CAPTCHA, but we should all know by now that they're pretty useless. At first I'd get about 6 per week. Nothing too hard to manage. Then I started getting more. 7-8 per day. And then the past couple of days, about 30. The annoying part was that I had removed the comment block from all the pages that were using them, but the spam kept coming in. Yeah, the comment system would actually accept comments for non-existing content. (it would show up with content id = 0) And then I started noticing some spam being sent via the contact form. So. I figured, it's time to start over. Move over Joomla, come over Drupal. Why Drupal? Basically because it pretty much does everything I want out of the box. Why not Wordpress or some other blog system? Because I want to learn Drupal so I can use it more effectively for work. So.. wait... did I just say blog? Me? Blog??? Never! Hmm.. but then I basically was blogging before the term existed... mind you, I was doing it in the form of regular emails. So what am I going to blog about? Anything and everything. Basically, it may or may not cover any of the following topics: Politics, Religion, Sex... the more controversial the better! Ok, maybe not so much those topics. Probably more along the lines of: PHP, Javascript, MySQL, CSS, Web Development... and to make sure it's not too IT oriented, Food. Yes, Food. I've gotten into this home-made food craze, so I'll probably write about making bread, desserts, cheese, pasta, etc. Maybe.. we'll see.

So welcome to the new David Files!