August 2008

Aug
30

Keeping up with Drupalcon Szeged

Submitted by duvien on Sat, 30/08/2008 - 16:35
Drupal Szeged

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? Read more about Keeping up with Drupalcon Szeged

Aug
28

Improving on performance of Drupal using contrib cache module

Submitted by duvien on Thu, 28/08/2008 - 20:39

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 Read more about Improving on performance of Drupal using contrib cache module

Aug
26

Mark Boulton to re-design Drupal.org

Submitted by duvien on Tue, 26/08/2008 - 21:06

Drupal re-deisgn
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 about Mark Boulton to re-design Drupal.org

Aug
21

Austere theme for Drupal 5 and 6 updated

Submitted by duvien on Thu, 21/08/2008 - 02:47

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. Read more about Austere theme for Drupal 5 and 6 updated

Aug
20

Adding video using Filefield + jQuery Media

Submitted by duvien on Wed, 20/08/2008 - 18:36
filefield and jq media screencast

Here's an excellent way of adding videos to your contents, thanks to Sean Effel of drupaltherapy.com for providing the screencast. Read more about Adding video using Filefield + jQuery Media

Aug
19

Jakob Neilsen: 10 Best Application UIs of 2008

Submitted by duvien on Tue, 19/08/2008 - 15:54

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 about Jakob Neilsen: 10 Best Application UIs of 2008

Aug
19

Artwork for 32music

Submitted by duvien on Tue, 19/08/2008 - 12:26
32music

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 about Artwork for 32music

Aug
07

How to copy/archive a site with only FTP access

Submitted by duvien on Thu, 07/08/2008 - 23:18

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 about How to copy/archive a site with only FTP access