Thanks to some helpful web searches PcHousekeeping is using Apache Solr with the Drupal Apache Solr Search Integration module. The Facet API module is also installed to give all the nice search filters. This site really doesn't need the extra power of Solr, but since so many people need help with it I needed to be able to do it.

Since Google rules the web I've decided to fall in line and add the Google +1 Plus One  and Badge module here. It looks to be well done and supported and gives the option of having a button beside each item of content or put the +1 badge in a block. I'll be playing with both here just to see how it goes.

As Plus One grows in it's attempt to compete with Facebook this should be very interesting.

Disabled Google +1 03/15/2013.

The last couple of days I have been converting my oldest site, whitelakeworld.com, to Drupal 7.12. I came across the problem of not being able to access a password protected directory in the web root outside of my Drupal install. I had the same problem when I converted this site to Drupal a while back and let it stump me.

On both sites I have a script that runs from cron to update a section of the site devoted to affiliate products. It simply takes a datafeed file and uses it to update the database.

I get a weird pleasure every time a system email comes in saying that the Spider Slap module has caused a bad spider to get it's IP blocked. It's for Drupal 7 only and is really just a simple use of the Rules module. There is no configuration  other than normal Drupal module installation and notification in robots.txt for the good bots to stear clear.

I had so much trouble getting Xdebug and Eclipse working together that I had to make some notes here to reference in the future. I got so carried away with this quest that I got it running with both Xampp on my desktop PC and with Quickstart.