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A comparison of online wireframing / prototyping tools

tom — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:47:00 +0000

Wireframing is an important aspect of web development. A decent wireframe developed at the start of a project can really help to reduce development times further down the road.Read more

Color Scheme Designer - A web tool to generate colour palettes

tom — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:32:36 +0000

Color Scheme Designer 3 is neat little tool that can help you generate new and appealing colour schemes. It has a slick web based interface, a wide range of options and some really great hidden features.Read more

Case Study : Concern Fast

tom — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:11:57 +0000

Each year, thousands of people around Ireland join Concern Worldwide in the Concern Fast. During the Fast, people give up food for 24 hours and raise as much money as they can for some of the world’s poorest people.Read more

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.

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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.Read more

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.Read more

Drupal module update: 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.Read more

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.Read more

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.Read more

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.