duvien's blog

Ubiquity for Firefox

Ubiquity

Introducing Ubiquity for Firefox, and experiment in connecting the Web with language.

labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

Extend the browser functionality easily. Watch the video  read more »

Keeping up with Drupalcon Szeged

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?

Sessions and BoFs, download slides and videos

Improving on performance of Drupal using contrib cache module

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.

Nikon D90: First DSLR with HD Video Recording feature

  • 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. :)

Mark Boulton to re-design Drupal.org

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 »

Syndicate content