May 2008

May

A free Drupal 6 theme coming to ya soon...

Submitted by duvien on Thu, 29/05/2008 - 02:02

Today, i've had some free time to start a new Drupal 6 theme which i'm quite excited about because it uses the colour module so the template colour can be changed on the fly without needing to mess around with too much CSS.

Part of the reason to use the colour module was that i didn't fine a lot of templates out there for Drupal that harness the power of the colour module. As i was building the template and trying to integrate the colour module, i realise reason why the colour module isn't used too much, possibly because it is time consuming creating those transparency images needed. Read more about A free Drupal 6 theme coming to ya soon...

May

SCALE 6x - Roy Rubin - Building an Ecommerce Site with Open Source Tools

Submitted by admin on Wed, 28/05/2008 - 18:51

Talk from The So. Cal. Linux Expo, Febuary 8-10, 2008 in Los Angeles, CA - Roy Rubin - Building an Ecommerce Site with Open Source Tools / An Overview of Open Source Commerce Solutions. Read more about SCALE 6x - Roy Rubin - Building an Ecommerce Site with Open Source Tools

May

Facebook going Open Source?

Submitted by duvien on Wed, 28/05/2008 - 02:27

According to TechCrunch, Facebook could go open source possibly as early as next week.

Not sure if this pressure is put on them when Google announced OpenSocial which allows users to share data between many different popular social network sites. Read more about Facebook going Open Source?

May

Drupal-Alfresco Integration and Alfresco’s Move to the Front-End

Submitted by duvien on Sat, 24/05/2008 - 00:47

Via Dries Buytaert, Rob Purdie is announcing the relaunch of Amnesty International’s site. The new site was built using Drupal and Alfresco. It is interesting to see how many people have commented on both posts who are craving more information about Drupal and Alfresco integration and it is no wonder. As I mentioned last year in this post, Optaros sees the two offerings as highly complementary–they aren’t (yet) competitors. Read more about Drupal-Alfresco Integration and Alfresco’s Move to the Front-End

May

Apple Mac Music Video by Dennis Lui

Submitted by duvien on Thu, 22/05/2008 - 11:23

What can i say, Dennis Liu the creator behind this music video (or viral marketing) is an absolute genius. 11 days after the video was released, he's already been offered jobs from high profile companies, not surprising at all. Read more about Apple Mac Music Video by Dennis Lui

May

Fix PNG transparency for Internet Explorer

Submitted by duvien on Thu, 22/05/2008 - 01:25

pngfix for IE As you know Internet Explorer does not support PNG transparency and there are many javascripts out there to fix this problem. Many of them work really well but seems to require more effort and at time difficult to implement especially when dealing with developing on a CMS. Read more about Fix PNG transparency for Internet Explorer

May

Admin menu stopped working in Magento 1.0

Submitted by duvien on Thu, 22/05/2008 - 00:47

Today, while developing a new site with Magento 1.0, i ran into a severe problem. The admin menu no longer worked anymore.

After searching high and low i came over a forum post to resolve this js issue. However, the Head.php file did not do the trick. Only when i slightly modified the code taken from the following page on that the same forum post that it resolved the issue. Read more about Admin menu stopped working in Magento 1.0

May

New Drupal Book: Learning Drupal 6 Module Development by Matt Butcher

Submitted by duvien on Wed, 21/05/2008 - 17:09

Developing new modules for Drupal 6? Porting older modules? Packt Publishing has just released a new book, Learning Drupal 6 Module Development, by Matt Butcher. This book is targeted toward PHP programmers interested in Drupal 6 module development. Read more about New Drupal Book: Learning Drupal 6 Module Development by Matt Butcher

May

Drupal White papers and Free books

Submitted by duvien on Sun, 18/05/2008 - 19:37

Drupal free PDF books

If you have started with Drupal and want to expand your knowledge, you either need to sit and spend time on Drupal Handbooks or buy some Drupal books.

Here I am giving some good collection of PDFs available on the web, which can be used for beginner or intermediate developers. Read more about Drupal White papers and Free books

May

Muslim and Ilse's wedding

Submitted by duvien on Sat, 17/05/2008 - 17:35

Congratulations to my good friend Muslim and Ilse who are getting married in June. As part of the announcement, they have kindly asked me to develop a website for only friends and families to view.

The website is at: muslimandilseswedding.co.uk and is a private site for invites only. It was built using Drupal 6 and allows only them to edit the contents while guest visitors can only view the site. Read more about Muslim and Ilse's wedding

May

HTML Emails - Taming the Beast

Submitted by duvien on Thu, 15/05/2008 - 10:47

HTML Emails can be a nightmare when there are so many different email services, and all seems to operate and render emails quite differently from each other.

Here is an article that should help ease the process

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May

Google To Launch "Friend Connect" On Monday

Submitted by duvien on Mon, 12/05/2008 - 20:19

Friend Connect

Don’t they say good things come in threes? Well, regardless, we’ve heard from multiple sources that Google will launch a new product on Monday called “Friend Connect,” which will be a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites.

MySpace launched Data Availability on Thursday, a competing product. Yesterday, in a suspiciously timed pre-release announcement, we heard about Facebook Connect, another similar product (with a nearly identical name to Google’s Friend Connect). Read more about Google To Launch "Friend Connect" On Monday