With my new blog setup, I decided to give Google AdSense a try. I don't have many regular readers, but I do have a few pages that attract search-engine traffic. So, to monetize those older pages without shoving ads in my regular readers' faces, I decided to show ads on …
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Rebuilding My Blog Again, with Pelican
I've moved this blog from a Drupal CMS running on an AWS EC2 instance to a statically generated set of pages hosted on GitHub Pages. If you're curious about the reasons and the process, read on.
For several years, my blog has been running on Drupal 6. Drupal seemed like …
Now Running on Amazon EC2
This blog is now running in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). I hope that nobody notices any difference.
Migrating the blog over to the new server was relatively straightforward, using Drupal's Backup and Migrate module. After getting Drupal set up on the new server, I just copied all my …
Drupal Rocks
I first dabbled in web development back in the mid 1990's. Back in those dark times, you created web sites by writing raw HTML, or by writing C or Perl CGI scripts. You spent about 1% of your time creating interesting content and behavior, and 99% of your time dinking …
Welcome to My Blog
My name is Kris Johnson. For eleven years, I have been a computer programmer. For the first few years, I enjoyed it. Now, I've grown tired of it, but I don't have any other marketable skills and I don't want to move into management. So, I do what I can …