January 2009

Drupal sites video

Have you ever wondered which high profile companies are using Drupal... just sit back, relax and watch this video...

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Accessing Linux file system (Ext2) on Mac OSX

ext2 Mac

Earlier today i was clearing out some old junk and found a few harddisk drives lying around that i had forgotten about. They were covered in dust, so must have been a few years old. Either way, this is great i can use them as an external backup disk for my server. Read more about Accessing Linux file system (Ext2) on Mac OSX

Setting permission roles for 'default' input filter

One of the things that have annoyed me for quite some time was Input filters. Anyone working with Drupal 5 and 6 knows that there is no way of assigning roles to any Input Filters that has been set as 'default'.

There have been many times that setting HTML Filter as default was very useful for end-users if they needed more than just to update text on the site (ie, applying many formatting to text). However, this poses a security problem such as Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attack if we were to allow anyone to input all sorts of tags.

So what do we do? well, there is a module that just simply takes care of this issue and it's actually been around for quite some time now, god knows how i have missed this all that time??? Read more about Setting permission roles for 'default' input filter

Conditional-CSS script

conditional-css.com

Conditional-CSS allows you to write maintainable CSS with conditional logic to target specific CSS statements at both individual browsers and groups of browsers. Read more about Conditional-CSS script

1 pixelout player for Drupal 6

MP3 Player

Finally, there is now 1pixelout player for Drupal which works in the same way as this one but can also be hooked into other modules soon. It also uses the newer version from WordPress Audio Player website. Check out the screen cast: Read more about 1 pixelout player for Drupal 6