News

My 12-month world trip has come to a close, and I am now permanently back in Sydney, and once again available for Drupal-related consulting work. Feel free to contact me if you're interested in recruiting my services.

The two sites of mine that were previously still hosted by Free Web Space Inc have now been migrated over to GreenAsh: the Barmy Home Page site, and the KHS 2001 French Trip site. Their old homes have been shut down and replaced with redirects. These sites have also been added to the sites folio.

In preparation for my 12-month backpacking trip around the world, I have set up a new site called Jaza's World Trip. The site hasn't got much content on it yet, but as I embark upon my travels, I will be regularly adding blog entries and other things to it.

Because I am going on a 12-month backpacking trip soon — and because I am fully booked out until I leave — I am now officially announcing that I am unavailable for work until further notice. You can still contact me using the contact form, but don't bother unless it's something non-work-related. I'm on holiday, OK? :-)

My first and favourite web site creation, Jaza's World, has finally completed its long-awaited move to GreenAsh, and has been converted over to Drupal. Read all about it on Jaza's World.

After running on its own separate (and oftentimes outdated) codebase for almost a year, the Category Module web site is now sharing the GreenAsh codebase in a multisite setup! This means that from now on, whenever the GreenAsh Drupal codebase is updated, those updates will be reflected on the category module site.

The GreenAsh sites folio has now been updated to actually have some sites in it. The folio now lists most of the sites that I've been involved in developing, in some shape or form, over the years.

For the first time in almost 2 years, a major upgrade of the site has been completed. GreenAsh has now been switched from Drupal 4.5 to Drupal 4.7. A number of important changes have been made, including the design of a new theme, and the use of new 4.7-only Drupal modules, such as the views module and the category module. Read about the details of how it was done in the thoughts archive.

User registration and user commenting have been temporarily disabled site-wide. This means that at present, no new users are being accepted, and all pages on the site are restricted to read-only access. This has been done because we are currently in the process of performing a major upgrade on the site. All services will be restored once the upgrade has been completed.

The latest addition to the GreenAsh portfolio is the brand new site of the AUJS Revue 2006: Diaspora Housewives. The AUJS Revue is an annual student musical production, and this year, I am one of the members of its cast! The site is not yet complete - in particular, the finalised content still needs to be added - but the basic design is in place for now.