My First Blog Post

July 10, 2010 - 22:38

This is my first blog post on my new blog, which is part of my new website. I'm migrating my old site (whoyouknow.co.uk) to this site as the domain makes more sense for personal stuff about me.

My old site was built up over 6 years with a lot of different things including many posts about my university degree, programs and, more recently, my PhD research. I'm beginning to migrate a lot of the old content onto this site but there's still a lot to do. Most of the old PHP scripts are badly written and are specific to the old domain (oops!). 

The most complete part of this site, so far, is my PhD research section. I'll continuously update this with new things as I work on my PhD in areas such as decompilation, obfuscation and software watermarking.

This new site is built using Drupal - an open-source content management system, written in PHP. It's brilliant. It has many functions and there as thousands of plugin modules. I haven't needed to write my own code yet, as I've found everything I need! I'll write a more detailed post about Drupal at some point; I'm still learning. I also need to work on a new theme - I'm currently using a built-in theme, which isn't too bad (I think!).

My old site has a lot of manually written HTML pages and PHP scripts so this site will be a lot easier to maintain.

Now it's time for dinner.