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I've just updated the website to the latest version of Drupal (6.17). It has been out for over a week but I just can't seem to find and or make time... So as of yet I'm still searching a way to make this a usefull place, even if only for me...

National soccer team

The Dutch National soccer team just won their first match of the 2010 World Cup. They played against Denmark and managed to score 2 goals (2-0). My eployer was kind enough to let us watch the match during our work time, so yeah!

I had some time on my hands and just started throwing something together and I'm more than happy with the result so far!

The theme is far from done or perfect, but it IS getting there... I will be making adjustments in the upcoming days, weeks.

The cool part for me is that I decided not to do the "ZEN feeling" this time and just start from a static site which was a working xHTML/CSS mock up. From mock up to Drupal took me about an hour tops.

Well time to go sit in some traffic ;)

So I recently started a new project at work there for most of my time has been spend preparing for that job and since 3 days actually getting started up with the project. The job itself is pretty neat, I get to resolve issues for local governments throughout the entire Netherlands.

The issues are related to the introduction of a very cool searching mechanism which give local governments the possibility to act as an "open door" for all kinds of government information. For example:

So as I mentioned in my previous and first post on this site I have a start up plan for this site. I want to record my exploration of Drupal and all my web related journeys I venture on.

The first step in my grand plan is creating a base theme for this website. As I've seen so far there are three ways to taking on the task of creating a theme for Drupal. You can either create a theme from scratch, copy and hack an existing theme or you can sub-theme an existing theme.

It has taken me about a year to finally get something on here, well in reality it has taken me over 5 years to get a project started on my domain name since it al started with paadt.nl which is still empty... I started a lot of little projects which ended up in the "/test/" folder or something similar...