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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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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Byebye IE6
I am really really tempted to officially drop IE6/5.5/5 support and just show those browsers a big, huge “UPDATE NOW” image ASAP. I can’t tell you *how* very excited I am that it seems like IE6 is going to vanish probably during the next 6 months or so. Life is going to be so easy. [...]
Say “hi” to drupdater v0.1
After some bugfixing and testing, Drupdater version 0.1 is ready. Not for download yet, tho. I am still trying to find the perfect balance between stability and ease of use. I also rewrote the update procedure to gain performance and stability: Instead of running a synch over the whole “modules” directory, I know Tar/BZip the [...]
Drupal: Limited drush magic (update)
I was trying to figure out how to create a simple way to keep my 15+ drupal installations clean and up to date with a single mouseclick for a long time now. Of course, drush was the first thing I looked at, but since it is a command line tool and all my clients are [...]
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Drupal: Columns for the Body
Probably not entirely groundbreaking, but a nice way to achieve nice layouts using Drupal + WYSIWYG occured to me about 3 projects ago when I was trying to figure out a way of haveing multiple columns in a page’s body field. Sure, you can do the same thing by using CCK and define a couple [...]
My Drupal Arsenal V1.1
I previously introduced you to a list of my favourite plugins. Some time has passed and I am able to present to you an updated version of it. New plugins are marked with *, removed plugins are marked with † and the “swiss knife of modules” is marked with a +. Keep in mind that [...]
Drupal: Session, Cache and other Mysteries
Drupal is a nice and massive tool for deploying websites, but not everything is perfect, as we all know: Session Management: Drupal’s session management is somehow inconsistent. But as I found out later on, it is due to the fact that IE sucks. However, this should be a known problem and the workaround is to [...]
The IE7-js project
“…make MSIE behave like a standards-compliant browser.” I’ve come across this little script which can be loaded in a conditional statement in your website’s header, to enable old IE versions (<=7) to display certain CSS properties correctly. This will help you to reduce the amount of CSS you have to rewrite for classic IE browsers: The [...]
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 [...]
Also posted in my five cents, software Tagged cms, drupal, editor, media, tinymce, wysiwyg 2 Comments