Category Archives: web
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 [...]
Also posted in design, my five cents, software Tagged drupal, filefield, imageassist, images, richtext editor, wysiwyg Leave a comment
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
Xenocode Browser Sandbox
On this website, you can run a browser based “virtual machine” which loads IE 6/7/8, Firefox 2/3, Opera and Safari (all for Windows). Only problem: Requires Windows and IE to run. But still: quite handy if you don’t want to mess around with your installation of win/IE (in my case, the VM running on OSX [...]
MySQL server has gone away
Like almost everyone, we use shared hosting servers for our websites and most of our clients’ websites aswell. This has advantages (monetary/outsourcing) and disadvantages (no custom configurations, sometimes performance). An error which pops up quite a lot recently, at least around here, is the famous database error: [MySQL server has gone away] This is a [...]
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 [...]
last.fm no longer free
At first, I am no avid last.fm user (or any other webservices in general). I was listening to last.fm radio only very rarely. The big, chunky music library I have at home has some very personal advantages over last.fm. But let’s get to the topic, shall we: even if I agree totally with everyone who [...]
WTF is Twine?
For all you people “getting old”: Twine is a way to collect, share and connect information, featuring some fancy web 3.0 technology. In a way, it’s like digg + delicious + semantic web functionality. I’m not gonna go deeper for now, if you’re interested, go have a look: What is Twine?
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