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Book Review: Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery

tom — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:07:17 +0000

This weekend I took the time to get stuck into one of Packt Publishing's Drupal titles, Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery. In this book, Matt Butcher takes the reader through the basics of using JavaScript within Drupal themes and modules, with a heavy emphasis on the all popular jQuery library.

Cross browser web testing on Linux - Playonlinux

tom — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:15:46 +0000

For the past year I have been running a full blown PC inside a virtual machine (vmware) in order to allow me to run Internet Explorer, Chrome and various other Windows based web browsers. Don't get me wrong, I have no desire to run Internet Explorer! But, as a web developer it's kind of a necessity.

Drupal 6 media streaming: Media Mover, FLV Media Player and XSPF Playlist

tom — Sun, 24 May 2009 08:01:26 +0000

Having just completed building another Drupal media streaming website and I thought I'd take the time to share some of my experiences, especially seeing as two of my most popular articles are about Drupal and media streaming (Drupal 6 video streaming roundup and Drupal 6 media streaming with Dash Media Player). Things however, have come along a fiar bit since I wrote those articles.

New Drupal 6 module: IP to Locale

tom — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:03:22 +0000

Drupal is set up fairly well for multilingual sites. However, it does make the assumption that each site version will be in a different language. It is quite feasible however, that there be two versions of a site in the same language. For example, A site which has a UK version, and a version for the Republic of Ireland. Both sites are written in English, but the content varies for each.

Rotor 2.1

tom — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:03:36 +0000

Rotor2.1 is out - Just a couple of months since the initial 2.0 release, and with a decent amount of in the field testing, The new Views based approach has gone down a treat, and I've had nothing but positive feedback.

Rotor2 gets a demonstration site

tom — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:24:25 +0000

With version 2 of the Drupal Rotor module getting closer to a stable release, I decided to launch a dedicated Rotor demonstration site.

BT: unlimited != unlimited

tom — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:19:36 +0000

I have an 'unlimited' broadband connection from BT. So I used it to download some of my music off a server that I have in England, at the same time I was in the process of rebuilding a machine and so I had to download a lot of (free) software. I downloaded a few gigabytes, and now BT have throttled my connection, with an estimation of it being back to speed in 17 days time.

Drupal 6 module port: ip2cc

tom — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:06:14 +0000

Another Drupal 6 module port in the bag. This time for the IP to Country module, which provides a simple API for retrieving country information such as country code, country name, flag, network name, and autonomous system number by given IP address.

Mirror an svn repository with svnsync

tom — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:49:28 +0000

If you like to keep all your work under svn source control, you're probably going to also want to keep a backup of your svn repositories in case of a hardware failure or some other catastrophic event. svn comes with a utility to help you do this - svnsync, which we can use to keep a real-time, read only backup of our svn repositories.

New Drupal 6 module: Ubercart Fee

tom — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:34:57 +0000

I've been using Ubercart pretty heavily over the past couple of months, and whist I think its a really great bit of software, it still doesn't do all that I need it to out of the box. I wanted the ability to add one off fees to products. Booking fees, registration fees, materials fee etc.