Du Vien Trang is a Freelance Web Designer / Developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is his portfolio, blog and digital playground.

If you have been one of the unfortunate people (like myself) that could not attend the Drupalcon Szeged in Hungary, you can still keep up with some of the sessions that has been shown at the conference (link below). There are already some vidoes and pdf files posted up. The one i was really interested in was the Drupal redesign talk but there doesn't seem to be a video for it. Does anyone know if there is one available?

Sessions and BoFs, download slides and videos

I have been working on upgrading the caching contrib modules to Drupal 6 and started to notice some patterns and duplicated code, which led me to think Drupal's approach to caching in general. We currently have a fairly limited API for caching, but we have a magic bullet that helps us overcome some of these weaknesses: the cache.inc override system.

Read full article: Drupal caching with Cache Router

CacheRouter is also available for Drupal 5, however, you'll need to patch the core to use it.

• First DSLR with HD Video Recording feature
• 12.3-megapixel image sensor was developed in-house like the D3 and D700's (the D300 uses a Sony sensor)
• same low-noise performance of their higher end DSLRs
• ISO up to 6400
• Info on nikon D90

This is definitely first on my shopping list for this year. :)

Yeah, this is old news by now but I've been wanting to express my opinion on this for a while about the chosen Design company (Mark Boulton Design) that is to redesign the Drupal.org site.

First of all, congratulations to Mark Boulton and his team for being selected out of the many other excellent design firms.

Over the past year, i've been following quite closely with Mark Boulton work when i first became interested in grid-based column layout designs and Typography.  read more »

Finally managed to update Austere theme for both Drupal 5 and 6.

It took awhile because i kept messing up the CVS tagging and branching, hence the big jump in the version... yikes! sorry. Really need to get my head around this damn CVS. I should be reading more of the Drupal Handbook.

Anyway, many thanks to Francis Pilon (of Raincity Studios) for cleaning up the code and making it conform more to Drupal coding standards.

You can grab a copy at: http://drupal.org/project/austere

Here's an excellent way of adding videos to your contents, thanks to Sean Effel of drupaltherapy.com for providing the screencast.  read more »

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website

Jakob Neilsen, one of the leading usability, analysis and User Interface design experts in the world has announced 10 Best Application UIs of 2008 last week.

The results are:  read more »

My friend Chris was commissioned to do some artwork for 32music.com (Irn Bru) at Cabaret Voltaire for the duration of the Edinburgh festival.

I thought they were really cool so thought i should also post them up for all to see. Sorry for the bad quality pics.  read more »

Anyone who has used a FTP program will know how cumbersome it can be to download or upload individual files. To save some time, here's an excellent tip on copying/archiving a whole site with FTP access, thanks to Khalid.

All that is required is to place a PHP script on your server and run the script via web browser.  read more »

Congratulations! to Elgg that has been featured as the best open source social networking platform in InfoWorld's 2008 Best Of Open Source Awards.