Thingy Ma Jig is the blog of Nicholas Thompson and contains any useful tips, sites and general blog-stuff which are considered interesting or handy!
Drupal is a Content Management System (CMS) which is used by many popular websites such as The Onion, MTV UK, Spread Firefox and your very favourite blog, Thingy Ma Jig.
It's favoured for its strong development potential.
The Date Picker widget, when using webforms, defaultly appears in American form (Month, Day, Year). For UK sites this isn't often desirable. Doing a quick google and I stumbled upon James Davidson's blog post on how to re-theme the element from earlier this year. I thought it was certainly one approach, but felt there must have been a neater alternative. So here is my approach:
It's usually considered best practice to run Drush under the same user account that the webserver runs on. Some modules, such as XML Sitemap, Advanced Aggregator and cTools, often try to alter or generate files. If you run Drush under your own account then these files may get generated as you (and therefore become unwritable by the webserver) or, if the files were generated by the webserver, are usually unwritable by your user which can mean you get errors and being unable to delete/unlink files.
09 March 2012
Drupal
New Relic
GreaseMonkey
New Relic is a great bit of kit - nobody can deny that. I recently needed to configure it on a standalone box so it could be open on a large screen so my colleagues and I could see the current status of our sites. New Relic has a Kiosk Mode which strips out some of the navigation from the page an optimises it for "viewing only". Very handy.
15 December 2011
Drupal
git
webdev
Have you ever needed or wanted to pull a remote Git Repository on Drupal.org down as a zip or tarball? You know, the way Github does? Most project releases have fairly recently built tarballs which is awesome - but Sandboxes do not (so it seems - please correct me if I'm wrong!).
The following snippet lets you "archive" a remote repository, pull it down as a tarball, and extract it in-place:
git archive --format=tar --prefix=PROJECT/ --remote=USERNAME@git.drupal.org:sandbox/USERNAME/123456789.git BRANCH | tar -xf -
14 November 2011
vim
Drupal
programming
According to the Drupal Coding Standards for Documenting Hook Implementations, its considered a good practice to quickly chuck a comment before any function which implements a Drupal hook (eg, hook_menu). This helps someone reading your code quickly see that the function is actually linked with a hook in Drupal and isn't just a function in your module to be called directly.
But… Well… The thing is… Does anyone else get bored of writing the following over and over again? I know do…
14 September 2011
mysql
tips
Drupal
Ever needed to build a list which "sub-selects", say, 5 items from a given list of categories? This snippet should help.
I've had several people ask me recently how I managed to get the nice date effect on my blog headers. It's quite simple really. All you need is:
16 February 2011
Drupal
code
tips
Isn't it a pain when you have dozens of Views setup and they are all marked as "overridden" because you just pulled in an updated feature file from somewhere. Features doesn't always notice when the Views on your site aren't up to date.
The following snippet (which you should use with caution) will batch "delete" (or Revert, once the view is in code) all Views which are marked as Overridden. This took a few seconds to run on our development machine.
16 January 2011
Drupal
How to
code
tips
So, Drupal 7 is out. Have you heard? It was a bit of a quiet launch really. ;-)
When it came to upgrading by blog, I decided (eventually) that I needed to do a cleanup as the Database had been upgraded from 4.7, to 5 and then to 6 - with many modules added and removed in between. New year, new drupal, new blog (kinda)!
09 December 2010
Drupal
websites
YADS
cool
announcement
Ever wondered if your Christmas Tree is really any good? Well last weekend I decided to make a website for this purpose. It's just a bit of fun really! You login using your Facebook credentials (using Facebook Connect) and can create Chrismas Tree posts by linking to Flickr or Facebook photo's. You can then vote on your favourite tree's in an "A vs B" type match. If you like the sound of this and fancy something a bit festive, please give it a go and let me know if you have any thoughts! Head over to Rate My Christmas Tree :-)
25 November 2010
tips
linux
How to
geek
code
Drupal
Sometimes, when you're running coder on a module, you'll get a lot of errors complaining about Windows line endings. This is because you should set your editor to use Unix Line endings to be consistent with all developers. See the Drupal Coding Standards for more details.
Below is a handy bash script which will help you batch convert many files from DOS to Unix line endings.
15 September 2010
websites
SEO
How to
Drupal
How do you find "all" the Drupal sites that Google knows about?
A post on drupal.org suggests Add New Comment, but that wont be entirely accurate. So far I have come up with a search that lists all sites with a User Account page on user/login:
intitle:"User account" inurl:"user/login"
15 September 2010
geek
free
Drupal
cool
Did anyone else get a Drupal EyeGrow (or Druplipets as they seem to be known) from DrupalCon CPH?
I started growing mine around a week ago and, as you can see, it's coming on pretty well!
14 April 2010
Drupal
performance
tips
I use a cron script on this server which fires up Drush to run Cron (rather than the standard wget method). There is nothing wrong with using wget, however it does tie up an apache or lighttpd process while cron is running. It also means it's harder to control process priority. Drush, on the other hand, runs in CLI mode, so controlling process priority is easier (using nice). But then I started seeing odd errors…
04 March 2010
programming
linux
How to
geek
Drupal
apache
Following Kevin Hankens post on why you shouldn't ignore Drupal 404 errors, I decided to go through yesterdays error_log on our live apache server (the one which hosts www.pponline.co.uk, www.sportbusiness.com and www.mychild.co.uk alongside around 40 other dupral sites).
24 February 2010
tips
programming
performance
How to
Drupal
I run XCache on the server that powers this site. XCache is cool. Out of the box, it allows caching of PHP compile code in memory, after all once a file is compile you shouldn't keep needing to compile it on every page load, should you?
17 February 2010
tip
mysql
geek
Drupal
Today I needed to quickly find out a list of node's which did not contain a certain token (one we use on PPOnline to insert adverts into articles). There were meant to be 2 of these tokens per article but we had noticed some only had one. Some didn't have any at all!
Now, this might already exist as a neat function somewhere, but I couldn't find it. So I wrote this little query to find the number of occurrences of a substring in a larger block of text.
I did look into using the SUBSTRING() and SUBSTRING_INDEX() commands, however I couldn't see a way of efficiently using them to find any number of occurrences. So I settled on the following…
14 November 2009
performance
How to
geek
Drupal
A while ago we started having issues running a website. Bandwidth. Upon investigation, we saw that the majority of bandwidth was being use by image files and of those, lot was from the ImageCache folder. It was also causing a lot of excess server load by consuming Apache processes. Something needed to be done.
18 August 2009
vim
programming
Drupal
I recently stumbled across a handy tutorial on configuring a Drupal dictionary in Vim for autocomplete. I also remembered helping a friend out with a similar problem, Drupal syntax highlighting for Nano. I then combined the two and have a simple to follow tutorial for generating your own drupal 6 dictionary for vim autocomplete!
11 August 2009
linux
How to
geek
Drupal
I just updated this server to PHP 5.3. As all my sites are Drupal 6 it seems I have a few issues ahead which mean I need to patch Drupal to stop PHP complaining about deprecated stuff…
So I headed over to the post on drupal.org which is discussing 5.3 compatibility in Drupal 6 (which I personally think SHOULD go in) to grab a patch. I applied the patch with no problems. I refreshed a page and got a white screen so I checked the logs only to see…
23 June 2009
vim
tips
programming
Drupal
I like little wins. I was just looking through the CSS file for this site and noticed that - for some reason - I'd used 0px instead of 0 a LOT of times. Most values need numbers (10em, 10px, 10% and 10pt are all very difference sizes) however 0 is one of the few valeus which is the same in all cases (0px, 0pt, 0% and 0 are all zero!). This adds up to wasted data and bandwidth; admitedly not a lot, but still Every Little Helps!
So I fired up Vim. Initially, I just did:
19 May 2009
programming
geek
Drupal
I just hit an interesting issue while trying to upgrade a Drupal 5.18 site to Drupal 6.12. I went to the update.php page and noticed an error at the top implying the url_aliastable was having issues due to Drupal 6 expecting a language column which wasn't present in Drupal 5. "No problem" I thought, "That'll get fixed during the update!". This was the beginning of a long learning curve through the new Batch API system!
27 April 2009
tip
linux
How to
geek
Drupal
code
bash
Back in November last year, I wrote a script which handled backing up a drupal database. There were quite a few comments and I've taken some on board and developed the script on a little further to be more "generic".
One of the main complaints/suggestions about my previous snippet was the hard coded nature of it. The follow script offers far more configuration through the command line itself.
11 March 2009
tip
svn
linux
How to
geek
Drupal
This morning I updated a site to the latest release of Drupal 5.16. Nothing special there at all. I’ve done that many times as has (hopefully) mabye other drupal devs… However, I’m a bit of a newbie when it comes to SVN. Didn’t I mention this drupal site was in an SVN repository? ;-)
15 January 2009
tip
programming
How to
Drupal
The first test is a valid email address test. The second test is if an account exists for that email address. The third is if the username, generated by the “user” part of the email address, exists. If there are any issues, the “error” is logged into and array and printed at the end.
12 January 2009
vim
programming
linux
Drupal
I am a bit of a "neat geek" when it comes to coding. Things should be indented neatly and should have well laid out comments! Why? Well… It's easy to do and in 6 months time when you look at your code you will appreciate it! It will also me even more appreciated by another developer in less than 6 months time ;-)
30 December 2008
technology
lighttpd
geek
Drupal
As many readers might know, I use Lighttpd a lot. I really like it for many reasons. Its fast, free, easy to configure, very light-weight (handy if you're running a cheap VPS or a low end server)… This is very apt for me because almost EVERY website I make now is a Drupal site (why would you use anything else?!).
Drupal is, inherently, a rather large web app - mainly because of its ability to do nigh-on anything. This means one needs to be a little careful about what you do with your resources. From my experience, Apache (which is bloody brilliant) can tend to get a little "bloated". I know there are ways of slimming it down and improving it, but I also like playing with new toys too! This is when I moved over to Lighttpd…
26 November 2008
tip
linux
How to
geek
Drupal
code
bash
I was just dumping a database using mysqldump and I noticed that tables such as cache (and its cousins cache_page, cache_menu, etc), sessions and watchdog can be pretty big and are also not often essential for backing up. I mean, when you restore your web site do you really care about restoring people's logged in sessions from when the backup took place? I can understand maybe keeping watchdog; but then again should you lose your site you would probably lose it several hours after the backup so would miss out on any relevant watchdog notices.
Anywho… I did a mysqdump for a large database for a website I maintain and the dump came out at 400Mb. I then spent a few minutes cobling together a small script which would do a mysqldump but had some pre-programmed Regular Expressions to match specific groups of tables which it would only dump the structure for (ie, no data). After running this script, the SQL dump was only 220Mb. Much better! It also runs considerable quicker too and will cause less table locking.
So - the script?
25 September 2008
SEO
programming
Drupal
announcement
I while ago (almost a year!) I released a module called Relevant Content to the community. This module executes a relatively lightweight SQL query which pulls up other nodes and sorts them by how many terms they have in common with the current node you're looking at. This provides a rudimentary method of suggesting other content to visitors to the page. It also provides a way of teaching search engines about other potentially relevant content.
16 September 2008
websites
Drupal
design
announcement
My first theme, Abessive, gets a new release today for Drupal 6. Turns out to be a pretty easy upgrade!
In case nobody caught onto what Abessive was the first time; it is an (almost) image free theme with flexible 1, 2 or 3 column layout (depending on where/if you place any blocks). Each block/section has rounded corners and slight top & bottom gradient which is achieved using only CSS techniques involving margins, padding and background colours. This makes the theme very lightweight and elegant at the same time.
18 August 2008
vim
programming
linux
geek
Drupal
I just finished upgrading a server to Ubuntu 8.04 which came with Vim 7.1 rather than 6.3 on the older server. It seems 7.1 does things slightly differently to 6.3.
In 6.3 I could create ~/.vim/filetype.vim and in there define a line as follows:
au BufRead,BufNewFile *.module,*.install,*.theme setf php
However in 7.1, it looks like a line similar to this has to go into ~/.vimrc instead…
After recently reading about how great VIM is for the three hundredth and fifty second time (I kept count), I decided to take a look.
It really is quite cool! I've also decided to try to log any cool tips I learn about it. Here is the first which I found after running the coder module on one of my modules (Page Title 2) and it threw hundreds of errors about too many trailing spaces on empty lines.
03 July 2008
SEO
programming
geek
Drupal
One of my most popular Drupal modules - Global Redirect - has just had an update from 1.2 to 1.3. This update includes several fixes for the following:
12 June 2008
websites
Drupal
design
I have just finished commiting my very first theme to the drupal community! I'm not a designer by nature - I prefer to be deep in the code. Thats why I commited this theme - it contains very little design (in terms of Photoshop work). This design is, pretty much, image free! On top of that - its SEO friendly too!
I say 'Pretty much' because it is still using 3 core image files for the bullet points. But what I'm pleased about is the curved CSS-only corners with a slight gradient on them AND the fact that if you remove content from a column, the content fills out over it automatically.
02 May 2008
SEO
programming
Drupal
I've just released Page Title 2 for Drupal 6. Page Title 2 is still marked as Alpha (as a project) however its in use on a number of my sites and appears to work.
I'd appeciate people's feedback regarding this module. Its a GREAT way to improve your websites SEO!
21 April 2008
linux
lighttpd
How to
geek
Drupal
bash
Following my previous post about configuring Lighttpd on this VPS Webserver to replace Apache I bring you a guide to configuring AWStats under Lighttpd. This process is differs to Apache as control of directories and aliasing is handled differently. There can also be complications if you have previously enabled the Drupal LUA Magnet script on your site for clean URL handling!
16 April 2008
linux
lighttpd
Drupal
This blog is now no longer powered by Apache (the feature filled but slightly bloated beast), instead I have decided to give Lighttpd (pronounced Lighty) a whirl.
What convinced me? Ages ago I read an article by Dries Buytaert comparing webserver configurations. It was shocked to see that Lighttpd appeared to be able to serve almost twice as many pages per second as Apache. There is also the advantage that a static file will only cost you substantially less memory to serve in Lighty than it will in Apache due to Apache bundling ALL the mods into every process.
So what is Lighttpd? The inventors describe it perfectly…
06 April 2008
programming
Drupal
announcement
I've just committed another module - Node Quick Find. That brings my projects to a nice round 10!
This module is a pretty basic one though. It simply provides a block which has an autocomplete field. This field is linked to the Node Title field. You start typing the Node Title and it will start suggesting possible nodes you might be interested in - sort of like a primitive search box.
It features primitive configuration, allowing an administrator to easil configure the title of the prompt, the size and the types of nodes returned in the autocomplete list (eg, you may want to limit the list to blogs only).
22 March 2008
programming
How to
Drupal
peashoter has raised a good point in an issue report for GlobalRedirect. What happens to a URL which has a fragment in it - such as:
http://www.example.com/node/100#comments
I have done a google and cant find any answer to this. It appears that the fragment is not passed to PHP. This makes it a LOT harder to fix!
17 March 2008
websites
SEO
geek
Drupal
Every blog worth its weight needs a Facebook page!
Lets see how many fans I get! This is also a test in a way. I wanna see if Facebook could provice any kind of useful traffic.
04 February 2008
SEO
review
geek
Drupal
I've recently been noticing a trend in how other websites are handling Clean URLs and it isn't good! Most websites don't appear to have the same luxury we have with Drupal (a concrete URL Alias system provided by the Path module). Although the URL Aliases can sometimes be a bit of a burden on larger sites, as the table can easily enter the tens or evey hundreds of thousands of entries, it provides (if used correctly) a very effective 1:1 relationship.
Just over 2 weeks since we started, my friend, Janak, and I have just finished our 3rd round of Drupal Wallpaper Photoshop Tennis.
If you haven't heard about this yet, the principal is to take a theme or idea and keep bouncing designs back and forth and at the end, a winner is decided.
Read more to see all the wallpaper previews until now.
01 January 2008
programming
Drupal
announcement
It has come to my attention, thanks to Hass, that GlobalRedirect apears to have issues when running under Windows web server, IIS. Unfortunately, I do not use IIS but I am aware that a few members of the community do.
17 December 2007
free
Drupal
design
After Matt Farnia posted about the utter lack of Drupal Wallpapers, my friend and I decided to have a Photoshop Tennis contest.
25 October 2007
programming
linux
geek
Drupal
cool
apache
Recently at work we had been having issues with spiking server load. One of the potential suspects was the Apache configuration as it was allowing 256 MaxClients. Combine that with Drupal eating RAM for breakfast (say a minimum of 12Mb per page) and you have a recipe for disaster - too many visitors cause a RAM shortage, lots of swapping and eventually a server meltdown. After speaking the Rackspace Technical Support Team, one of the guys there (Daniel) wrote a VERY useful script for us to run on the server to monitor Apache usage.
02 October 2007
programming
Drupal
I was browsing around the Devel Module the other day and I noticed a few functions that are not mentioned in any documentation that I've seen but make life even easier, as if Devel doesn't make it easy enough! Almost everyone that's used Devel will be familiar with dprint_r (A debug version of the popular print_r function in PHP). Well who has used these ones?
28 September 2007
websites
software
linux
How to
geek
Drupal
I recently looked into which versions of software I was running and was a little concerned to see how backward Fedora Core 4 was in some areas. I did a little Googling around and found a website (http://remi.collet.free.fr/) which is predominately written in French (but has a few English translations) which provides a new repository for Fedora Core 4's Yum Installer Package which provides far more recent RPM's for the likes of PHP and MySQL... So I installed it!
07 August 2007
programming
mysql
Drupal
cool
Following on from my Numbering Rows in MySQL article, today I needed to populate the weight column of the term_data table for about a hundred terms so that they incremented in alphabetical order. This was, on the face of it, a very tedious task; click edit, select weight from drop-down, submit, 'goto 1'.
As I said in my Numbering Rows in MySQL article, I don't like tedious - but I do like over-complicated methods which actually make my life more interesting and less tedious... Enter a nifty MySQL script!
28 July 2007
Drupal
announcement
Not many people have heard of Cubalaya. I know I hadn't a few months back when they contacted me about potential advertising on my site. Now Cubalaya isn't a shop - its not like Amazon or even eBay. Its more like Kelkoo or Pricerunner - its a Price Comparison Site really. Well now you can easily integrate this PPC (Pay Per Click) advertiser onto your site and provide your own category sensitive products.
12 June 2007
programming
Drupal
design
cool
I recently launched a Drupal Codebase site for a programming community and wanted to have the user profiles to be more than just a "signed up on..." and a Tracker Tab. I wanted them to have structured and customisable blocks, dynamic content, a Peer to Peer Message Board (almost finished)... I can have my dreams cant I?!
I recently wrote a book page on how to programmatically create a view. I wanted to do this as it would allow to me control almost an entire website with multiple content types, terms and users (as well as combinations of the three) along with RSS feeds - all powered by the Views Module + a bolt on module consisting mostly of a menu callback and a function to make and configure a view. This worked pretty well for a first try and principle test!
I then realised - hey, if you can do this with Views - why cant you do it with Panels too? Panels are fantastically useful for structuring multiple blocks, views and nodes onto a page. So I tried… And you can!
06 June 2007
YADS
programming
Drupal
Dark Basic Pro
announcement
Today I officially launch a new Codebase for Dark Basic Pro. I'm a big fan of Dark Basic Pro and this Codebase is one of the ways I'd like to help the community back. There is a codebase which The Games Creators provide and it is a good codebase with a LOT of content. This codebase, however, offers more "Web 2.0" features such as free tagging, comments and rating (and I've only just got started - more to come!).
14 May 2007
programming
linux
geek
Drupal
cool
I recently needed to find out a list of modules which used hook_cron. I have SSH access to my server. Instead of writing a module (or using devel to execute some PHP) which returned the result of module_implements, I turned to grep. Simply cd into your modules folder (can be the Drupal install, but you end up recursing through unlikely folders) and run this:
grep -R "^function.*_cron" *module
11 May 2007
software
free
Drupal
announcement
I've been working on it for a few days now, but its finally released. Social Statistics is being used on this site and can be found on any page on an enabled site in a block. It provides pluggable statistics for (currently) 3 major Social Networking websites; Del.icio.us, Digg and Ma.gnolia. It currently boasts caching of statistics for a configurable amount of time, AHAH retrieval of statistics which are not cached (thus not slowing down page loads) and an API to make the project extendible to anybody who cares to add a Social Network to the mixture!
The core module consists, mostly, of a few menu callbacks and an API. This API allows the user to enable any number of enabled modules to add their contribution to the block. The 3 enabled sites all have an XML based API, but each does things slightly differently - hence my choice in using them as examples of the module as a whole.
You can find this module over in the Drupal Projects section.
08 May 2007
websites
security
programming
linux
How to
Drupal
I've recently been receiving some spam from some Russian IP's. As each spam attempt was from a different IP, blocking individual ones was a little futile and time consuming. I did a quick Google and ended up at Deekayen's website as it seems he has had similar issues. His solution was an Apache level "Deny"… My solution uses iptables.
12 April 2007
programming
Drupal
announcement
Google announced today that it will be sponsoring 20 - yes twenty - projects for its Google Summer of Code program this year. From what I've seen, Drupal is one of the top "winners" if you use project quantity as a metric, with only Apache and KDE beating us (I couldn't see any others with any more at a glance). We got more than Joomla, PHP & The Mozilla Foundation and I believe this is a real achievement.
I'm also thrilled that Konstantin Käfer and I am mentoring one of the projects this year - the Taxonomy Manager.
05 April 2007
YADS
websites
review
n73
free
Drupal
cool
mobile phone
Need themes for Nokia N73? Download Nokia N73 Themes for free for your Nokia N73 handset.
I found this site while looking around the net. I am considering getting a Nokia N73 and I wanted to know what resources were out there. Then I found this site…
30 March 2007
YADS
websites
Drupal
announcement
It's taken me long enough to get around to, but finally Thingy Ma Jig has been upgraded to the latest and greatest in all things Drupal.
All in all, I'd say it was a fairly (and surprisingly) painless experience. There were a few minor glitches along the way though…
Well I'm back home - fortunately my flight was better leaving the US than it was entering. I only managed to snap 7 photo's, however I've had them on Flickr almost as soon as I'd taken them. I've also now created a Flickr group which is completely public and free to join. Please add your photo's to this pool!
23 March 2007
photos
Drupal
Days Out
Well - It took us 10 hours longer than it should have done to get to the US - but the first day of the OSCMS (Open Source Content Management System) Summit 2007 sponsored by Yahoo! is over. What a day its been!
Well Day 2 is starting soon. Lets see what this beautiful new day brings!
I'm really torn about what talks to do today. The first scheduled talks are really clashing! I want go to both the Drupal Lightning and the Drupal Profiles talk. After that, I think the Yahoo Pipes session sounds interesting. Then I'm torn between the FormsAPI talk and the Date + Calander talk.
Well thats it - this year's DrupalCon hosted by Yahoo! at their Open Source CMS Summit 2007 is over. Winding up the conference are the Lullabot guy's doing their podcast.
26 February 2007
YADS
websites
software
Drupal
design
cool
I recently wanted to try out my drupal websites in IE 6.0 (and ideally 5.55 too, for compatibility) however since IE7 was released, its been harder and harder to find a computer with IE6 left on it!
Step in: Multipel_IE
A single install file containing IE 3 through to 6…
19 February 2007
software
mobile phone
K800i
How to
geek
Drupal
cool
This morning I decided to watch the Lullabot Drupal 4.7.x to 5.x Conversion Tutorial. Thing is - my work PC doesn't have sound plus it's not ideal to watch a video and work on the same screen - not enough screen real estate.
11 February 2007
YADS
websites
Drupal
announcement
I bought the domain a while ago but haven't had time to set anything up - well this is a start. Its not much to shout about yet (and probably never will be) but I'm pleased with the design and think that its good to have a kind of "CV" site.
27 January 2007
YADS
websites
music
Drupal
announcement
I've been working with a good friend on a website to promote his up and coming artist, Kasha and label, Vivid Imagery.
15 January 2007
websites
Drupal
announcement
Drupal 5.0 is out!
Get yourself over to…
What a fantastic coincidence - releasing Drupal 5.0 on its 6th birthday... Its like it was planned or something!
11 January 2007
websites
Drupal
announcement
Drupal RC2 Released!
The day of Drupal 5.0 is getting close and I personally cannot wait!
02 January 2007
programming
mysql
How to
Drupal
cool
Faced with a tedious task of ordering a set of rows using a weight column? Don't want to type the numbers out? Would rather find a difficult but more interesting method? I have the answer for you!
30 November 2006
YADS
websites
review
Drupal
announcement
Electric Word Plc have just launched a fantastic new site. Teaching Expertise has aspirations to become a (if not THE) central hub for everything a teacher would need. It will have articles on topics such as SEN, Bullying and Assemblies, a jobs section, publications and plenty more…
16 November 2006
How to
firefox
Drupal
cool
Rob Douglass has dugg a fantastic article he found on Josh Koenig's blog. It has taught me something new and usefull, which I ALWAYS appreciate. You can have arguments/wildcards in bookmarks…
14 November 2006
Drupal
The drupal headlines at Digg today read…
Here is the report from PackPub…
31 October 2006
Drupal
announcement
programming
Drupal 5.0 beta1 has been announced.
It comes with many new features, including a web-based install system, improved administration tools, and a shiny new theme! There are also tons of under-the-hood improvements, such as the inclusion of the jQuery JavaScript library, node access system improvements (ACL), and many improvements to the Form API.
08 October 2006
programming
Drupal
announcement
Well its nearly 1am - but I've just submitted by very first Drupal module to the community
http://drupal.org/project/globalredirect
Basically, if you have an alias for a node then it will redirect you to the alias if you try to access the node directly… The best example is the site it was designed for. At Sportbusiness.com you could access a news story by:
03 September 2006
YADS
websites
Drupal
announcement
A project I've been working on for months, recently accelerated with the assistance of two newly employed colleagues (who are picking up this Drupal thing VERY quickly!) have meant that www.sportbusiness.com has finally moved from an old Solaris and Oracle setup with no server management or backup facility to a nice shiny new one with a company called Rackspace.