Yes, this is another Wordpress post.  We’ve upgraded to Wordpress 2.7.  Check out the new features in this video.

Some more information can be found at CMS Report.

We sort of went the wrong direction in our previous upgrade last Fall to Wordpress 2.3. So we’ve brought a previous version of Wordpress back online as well as the previous database. We’re missing our posts since Summer 2007…but we think it’s worth it.

Until we start getting some content online…feel free to take a look at one of Bryan’s endeavors…CMS Report.

Yes…we know. It’s been way too long since we posted on this blog. Karen and I are going to take a step back and see which direction we would like to take LakethatIdea.com. Stay tuned…

Packt, an IT book publisher, announced the beginning of their Open Source Content Management System System Award. The award is meant to “encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS)”. Visitors to Packt’s site can nominate their favorite CMS and one of the top five will be selected by a panel of judges. Besides the first place winner being awarded $5000, the second place winner will get $3000 and third place winner will receive $2000.

You’ll want to take note that the CMS you nominate must be part of an open source project. Also, the deadline for nominating your CMS at Packt’s site is September 1, 2006. For more information you’ll need to visit Packt.

We’ve upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress, 2.0.3. This release addresses security issues, bugs, and a few performance enhancements. As you’ll find out when reading the announcement from Wordpress.org…they’ve backported into 2.0.3 a number of security enhancements from the yet to be released Wordpress 2.1.

The latest in the stable 2.0 series, 2.0.3, is now available for download. This is a bug fix and security release, and is recommended for all WordPress users. In addition to an issue that was raised on Bugtraq a few days ago, we?ve also backported a number of security enhancements from 2.1 to further enhance and protect your blog.For the curious, this release includes:

• Small performance enhancements
• Movable Type / Typepad importer fix
• Enclosure (podcasting) fix
• The aforementioned security enhancements (nonces)

Upgrading is fairly simple, just overwrite your old files with the latest from the download. When you go to your admin it will give you a link to update your database.

Karen, my wife, has left me and my two-and-a-half year old son. Are you surprised? Well, before the rumors start-up and Karen’s good reputation goes south…she’s coming back in two weeks. Karen had to do some traveling for work and didn’t have too much of a choice in the matter. Thanks to the cell phone world we live in she has been able to call us each day. All this is require of me is putting Logan on the speaker phone so he is able to brief is Momma on each day’s activities.

Logan and I are spending the time without a woman in the house to make it a man’s world. You can be assured this manly point of view we have adopted for our home will also be noticed here at Like that Idea. For the next two weeks you can expect to see the ideas that only a Dad and son can dream up to be presented here. For now, though Logan and I will have to go. You see, we have been busy doing yard work. We have had a gorgeous weekend here in Sioux Falls, SD and the days have been full of activity that it it finally time for us to rest. Logan is already out on the deck and ready for me to bring out the six pack of fruit juice I promised. By the time we’re done with our drinking, it should become one very wild Sunday evening here at our little bachelor pad.

Oh, and one last thing. Please make sure nobody mentions to Karen about the dirty dishes in the sink. We don’t consider it so much of a guy thing to leave dirty dishes in the sink. No, not at all. Instead, we equate the dirty dishes in the sink as our little science project! Ha, at least Logan and I find humor in that. Ok, everyone have a good work week!

We had great intentions to continue to keep everyone up to date on a new site that we’re building using Drupal, a content management system (CMS). The idea was as we were building the site we intended to write down how we did it so others could learn with us. Well if you look at our Drupal blog here at Like that Idea you would see that we have not had too many posts in the blog. Have we given up on the idea? No hardly, we are just so busy with other projects (including the project of raising a family) that we have had to prioritize and put some of our ideas on the back burner.

I have no doubt the new site focusing on content management systems will eventually be up and running, the question is when and not if it will happen. I suspect that once Drupal 4.7 has been released is when we’ll start working on the site.

In the meantime, We would like to recommend a few places that you can go to learn about Drupal and other content management systems. First, if you haven’t visited the handbooks at Drupal.org lately, you should. A lot of changes have been taking place in the user support documentation at Drupal.org and most of it is for the better. If reading isn’t your thing, Drupal users don’t have to wait for the movie to come out since it is now available at Lullabot. Lullabot is providing both audiocasts and videocasts on a number of Drupal topics. The Lullabot video for managing menus and links with Drupal is very well done.

Last but not least, if you have questions about content management systems and how they can help you build a Website; please consider joining in on the discussions at our sister site, the WebCMS Forum. While most people think of a Web content management system as only Web Portals, the forum also considers software that manages blogs, forums, shopping carts, and photo-galleries to also be variations of a CMS. WebCMS Forum is still a new site, but it already has had a promising start with a number of users of different CMS applications coming together to share their ideas and learning from others. I already find myself learning a lot and like to see it when those from Drupal, Mambo, Joomla, e107, SMF, phpBB, Wordpress, osCommerce, and others express their thoughts and ideas on their own favorite CMS. I you don’t mind me saying it, I hope you like that forum!