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

Who says you need to be a PHP developer to build a community site with Drupal ;)

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.

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

I was playing around with my Drupal 5 test site to add some PHP code snippet to Drupal in a block. Not sure what happen but upon saving my code snippet in a block the whole browser went blank and i was not able to do anything after that. No page display or any way to get back into my Drupal test site... yikes!  read more »

Just wanted to say a big thank you to Robert Douglass who kindly took the time to contact me (and many other selected bloggers) to asked if we wish to have our site added to The Drupal planet. Couldn't turn this down, hell yeah! :-)

For those that know little about Robert Douglass (and shame on you not to know) - He is a long term contributor to the Drupal community (check his impressive list of contrib modules). He recently joined Acquia as a Senior Drupal Advisor.

Just updated this site to Drupal 5.8. It seems everything is fine but as you can see from the tab blocks, it's broken. :(

Can't seem to pinpoint where it went wrong so will need to continue digging for clues. Bloody annoying when these little things happen as it really messes up the whole design since the tab really pulls it together. Oh! well i'm sure a fix is just around the corner. Better get some sleep for now... sigh!

UPDATE (30th July):
Sorry late posting (been busy) but just a quick note to say that Drupal 5.9 fixes all the issues encountered in this post. :)  read more »

Generally if a website can be reached by both www. or without in the domain name, it really doesn't matter much as this article will tell you. However, some SEO guru will argue that search engine will treat this as two separate pages, therefore can cause duplicate contents which isn't good. I'm still not 100% sure about this but to be safe it should be done anyway.  read more »

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