Category Archives: my five cents
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 [...]
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Well done.
I don’t get around writing down some thoughts about this topic. The law which was passed last week in switzerland is in fact absolutely ridiculous. It boils down to this: The campaign of the SVP was building upon fear. It didn’t really matter wether it would have been a law to prohibit anyone from building [...]
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SGU: Stargate Universe
It was too bad that SG Atlantis was cancelled. I got to really like the plot and the characters. But shortly after, we are now blessed with it’s “offspring” – which has not much to do with it’s parents, honestly. I like the change of direction they introduced with the new series. Before, every character [...]
GUI shame: Touchpanels
I’m currently doing a lot of design-work for high-end touchpanels. One should expect that a touchpanel in the price range of around 3′000$ to 5′000$ each should be able to render truetype fonts smoothly. Bad luck: AMX doesn’t even support OpenType fonts to date and looks as bas as Crestron-rendered fonts. This is really disappointing. [...]
Drupal: WYSIWY(should)G
A rather annoying problem with Drupal is the lack of a *really* standard WYSIWYG interface. WordPress made the example and included TinyMCE as a default which is expandable with a couple of plugins (“TinyMCE Advanced”). Putting together a solution which also allows users to easily upload and include pictures into article texts with Drupal took me [...]
Fileserver: NAS or not, that’s …
…the question.
The amount of data I have around here isn’t the problem. I’ve plenty of space left. The thing which makes me worry is the reliability of my space. I’m currently running 2 LaCie Harddrives with a total of 1.5TB space on my iMac’s FW800 port. 500GB for my iMac’s TimeMachine, 1TB for the “Archive” [...]
My Drupal Arsenal
I use the following plugins on every base installation, since it covers (most) of my client’s needs. The * indicates, that this is a plugin which is active on basically every installation. Also, I only run “real” CRON tasks via cPanel options – no virtual CRON triggers. Additionally, I have a test installation which is [...]
Transition over
Ok, this isn’t exactly a new design. I just didn’t feel like kicking it already. Also, some people (*hint* you know who you are..) begged me like mad to keep this one. So I ended up converting my existing design to a “Thematic” child-theme. I don’t use most of the supplied CSS, except for the [...]
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Transition imminent
Welcome to the new WordPress-powered blog on genox.ch. As you may have noticed, there’s not much fancy layoutism around yet, but this is going to change over time. The switch from Serendipity to WordPress was something I planned to do since WP 2.8 got released. S9y is far from being actively developped anymore (I don’t [...]
You better learn to swim..
What’s the point in saying “I’m feeling good” if you know, that you are actually far from feeling “real” good? That, as soon as you stop taking those light meds, you can start all over again? We’re so damn good at lying to ourselfes, to the point where we actually *believe*. This includes lies from [...]
Umgezogen
So, mal Zeit, dass ich das auch hier noch vermerke: Ich bin umgezogen, von Solothurn nach … *tadaa* .. Solothurn! :) Meine neue Adresse: Alte Bernstrasse 41, 4500 Solothurn.
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Universal Beauty
Das All ist wunderschön und ich würde alles dafür geben, ein Spektakel wie dieses einmal mit blossem Auge zu sehen. Vielleicht ein Grund dafür, weshalb ich fast 2 Jahre lang täglich EVE Online gespielt habe. Sight seeing im All wäre der absolute Hammer, aber wohl leider nicht mehr während meiner kurzen Existenz.
LOTD: simple!
It’s that simple. Really. :-)
Alte Freunde
Diese Woche am Mittwoch war ich in Basel um Patrick (vIbe) zu treffen, den ich seit fast 10 Jahren nicht mehr “in real life” getroffen habe. Wir hatten damals zusammen eine Demogroup gegründet (“Phaze:Shipht”) und hatten sogar 1-2 Demos veröffentlicht. Aber das war’s dann auch schon. Dann brach der Kontakt zwischen den Membern ab und [...]
Winter Impaired