A really nice extension to Drupal Forms API has been released over the weekend: Selector Element module introduces the hip awesomeness of jQueryUI Sortable widget to Drupal’s Forms API in a very easy way. If you are using Drupal and wanted to quickly implement one of those drag-n-drop-n-sort selectors - you found a perfect module...

# yum install openssl # yum install openssl-devel # yum install perl # yum install perl-Net-SSLeay perl-Crypt-SSLeay # rpm --import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc Create the /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo file containing : [webmin] name=Webmin Distribution Neutral baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum enabled=0 Then run: # yum --enablerepo=webmin install webmin Check installation success with: /etc/init.d/webmin status If everything is good and webmin is running access...

Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the “Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech

This has happened couple times, already, so I may as well blog about it. If you use Views in Drupal, you already know that it shows you the final SQL generated. Very useful feature, but there’s a rare edge condition when the SQL returns results (if you run it from an SQL client), but Views...

If you are on a Wifi and both your mac and iPhone can access it, you can get free ride with controlling Keynote from your iPhone by using: Keymote, which in part uses Telekinesis iPhoneRemote. Telekinesis actually uses iPhone Safari and Ajax so you need to point iPhone Safari to a specific address (https://192.168.74.104:5010/ by...

Thinking about Semantic Web, crowdsourcing and mostly after reading a recent blog post from Andy I came to believe that we need a ‘Tagipedia’ (Wikipedia for tags): a place where anybody can tag any uniquely identified web resource (URL) and thus gradually, collaboratively describe the entire Web in more semantically sensible way. Ironically, large social-bookmarking...

I’ve been saying this off the record for a long time and finally I am frustrated enough to go on the record and say it out loud and without a shred of fear: professional certification, in software, is lame, means nothing at all and is a waste of everybody’s time except companies that make money...

Default CentOS 5.2 yum repositories are still on Sybversion 1.4.x branch, so if you need the latest Subversion client, you are out of luck… or not, if you read this blog post :) This quick tutorial will show you how to upgrade in less than 5 minutes. We will use RPMForge repos for the upgrade....

Pee1’s new website design is a great example of modern, user-centric, ergonomic design. Professional, yet fun, easy to navigate, stunningly beautiful and appealing, it inspires the emotions of trust, reliability, feeling of cutting-edge. Combine that with the promise of 100% network SLA and 24/7/365 support, plus different marketing messages cleverly spread-out across different pages and...

Yeah, I know - CVS is an archaic mess and there’s not a single reason in the entire world to be using it in 2009… except if you are a Drupal contributor and need to maintain a module (or contribute to one) on drupal.org. For reasons that are complicated and don’t matter to this blog...

Twitter is one of the tech wonders that really took off last year. According to Compete.com number of unique visitors to Twitter has increased almost 10 times from Dec ‘07 to Dec ‘08. If we also account for the fact that most Twitter users use it from desktop applications that are not easy to track,...

Joomla has announced availability of new ACL: http://is.gd/iA5B and they seem pretty excited about it. Is that something for Drupal community to be jealous of? If you come from a Java/J2EE background the clear answer is: NO (yes, in capital letters). You have to actually suffer from a structured, strict ACL to really appreciate the...

King is dead, long live the King! The trademark of the Web: “Content is king” is dying away. In the end, Web is business and business needs to make money. With the emergence of so many, high-quality, free-content resources, few people want to pay for content on the Net; even if they do - it’s...

The official website of the United Nation’s World Food Programme has launched its new, redesigned and re-engineered website, today, in beta mode: http://beta.wfp.org. The website is now driven by Drupal (woohoo!) and looks pretty cool - a word rarely used in regards with the websites of large, non-profit, international organizations. We’d like to congratulate everybody...

Disclaimer: Views2 Advanced Help contains a more detailed and comprehensive documentation on the same subject. However, that also means that you have to actually comprehend more :) This is just a quick sample code of one usage of the hook_views_data() to expose custom fields from a custom table to Views2. If you need more advanced...