I was looking in a couple of Spam-related plugins for WHM/cPanel in the summer of 2010. After some digging and trial runs I decided to buy a licence of “ASSP Deluxe”, which is essentially an integration script + UI for WHM wrapped around the opensource scripts in the ASSP package (Anti Spam SMTP Proxy). So [...]
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Supernatural
Yes, the SciFi blogging goes on! One of the latest additions to my RSS download queue (he he he..) is Supernatural. I watched all seasons over the past 2 months. Actually, Aasemoon suggested this one to me quite a while ago but I was a bit worried about the whole “theme” of ghosts, demons and [...]
Stargate Universe
I enjoyed Stargate so far, SG1, the direct-to-DVD movies, Atlantis etc. So I had high hopes for Universe. Now that the thing is running for a rather long time already, I can say: It’s .. well .. it’s not really what I expected. :-P First of all, what’s going on with all that “Beverly Hills [...]
Moving on
This blog has become rather unuseful. I just don’t blog much anymore due to the lack of time which I’m currently undergoing. Those past days were an exception to the rule, but that was because I scheduled the publishing of articles.. :-P I am gonna move away from a “Blog Site” back to a “normal” [...]
CCK: Reordering Fields
Another one in the line of “D’oh!” moments. On normal node forms with CCK fields you can order the form elements – but you cannot specify a different order for the node display. The node-order will simply apply to both edit mode and display mode. Drupal Community to the rescue! Here you go: Content Display [...]
CCK: redirection
One of the biggest “D’oh!” moments I had using Drupal in the past 3 years was when I tried to achieve a simple redirection from one page to another (e.g. “virtual” pages with no actual content but needed to have a decent navigation structure). It is possible to do that using the menu editor and [...]
Limitations of SWFupload
SWFUpload is a JS/Flash library, enabling the upload of multiple files (batch) into media apps or CM systems. In my case Drupal, but AFAIK WordPress uses this library too. It’s a sweet thing to have for content administrators, especially if they have to add a couple of files from time to time. Less frustrating, better [...]
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New EP out: Hourglass
New EP from yours truly.. Click here to download the thing. Published on enoughrecords.
SSD to the rescue
Installed an SSD as system disk in my hackintosh. Migration worked perfectly, speed is amazing. Regular harddiscs are an incredible bottleneck. :-P Before you buy a new Macbook (for example) upgrade the thing with an SSD HD. It might already provide enough speed. BTW. The model I chose was the “OCZ Vertex 2″. Seemed to [...]
Hackintosh Ahoy!
Hooray ye olde swashbuckling, grogg drinking plank lumpets! I’m writing this post on my very first hackintosh which I got to work after 3-4 days of fiddling around and reading, reading, googling, reading, and so on. You get the picture. I have to say, once I got myself the right parts, it was darn easy [...]
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The Art of Pragmatism
The web (or let’s say, the technology underneath the hood) is once again facing an evolutionary step towards becoming more userfriendly for both developers and consumers. I put big hopes into CSS3/HTML5 and a more streamlined production process for creating websites due to less workarounds. With more and more websites haveing heavy usage of ajaxified [...]
Posted in design, my five cents, web Tagged browser, compatibility, css3, fallback, html5 3 Comments
Understanding Clients
Dear clients, I don’t mean to insult you or rant about our sometimes tense relationships. We’re all “just” humans, with our very own personal goals and our very own approaches to problem solving. But try to look at it from our perspective, too. I know, you pay the bill so you are the boss. But [...]
Winter Impaired
This is why I don’t like winter: At some point half way through it, I start to get the winter-blues really hard. Like now. I’m constantly tired, no matter how much coffee I drink, no matter how much I sleep. I usually have a nap sometime in the late afternoon to get back to work [...]
Epson R2880: Proofing 2.0
I already wrote an article about printing proofs with the Epson R2880, little more than a year ago. Since then, I tried out various approaches. Here’s what works best for me and what I still consider a “low budget” solution, compared to a professional RIP of course. ;-) First, the hardware: The Epson R2880 is [...]
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Nodes: Inserting Images
While Drupal provides a lot of extensions and gimmicks, one of the big downsides currently is image handling. Basic image handling, like inserting images into a node’s body field are quite the task to achieve – there’s plenty of approaches but almost all fail at some point. Mostly because of bugs or lack of basic [...]
Posted in design, my five cents, software, web Tagged drupal, filefield, imageassist, images, richtext editor, wysiwyg Leave a comment