A transaction in the database modifies data. Due to its impotance, any extra care and security you can apply to a transaction, can pay back big time in a critical situation. There is one measure which is relatively easy to implement in MySQL and can save you a lot of headache if something goes south....

A lot of nice Drupal themes have HTML body styled with fancy backgrounds. Unfortunately, most of the theme authors do not test their themes with a popular WYSIWYG editor module TinyMCE. If they did, they would notice how bad the text entry window looks with their themes on: As you can see, the body background...

You can do it very easily using IcoMaker. Just compose the ico as a GIF in any editor of your choice, save it. Start IcoMaker, go to “New Document”, import your existing image with File->Include Image, then save. That’s it.

In Drupal 4.7 and 5.x correct way to add your custom Javascript onload events is to a) Make sure there is no onload attribute on HTML body tag. b) Make sure you are not calling window.onload= directly c) Insert the following snippet, in the generic section (outside any methods!) of your module’s javascript file: if...

If you noticed that your Firefox installation takes significant time to connect to websites, there may be an easy solution. It will take you 30 seconds and save you a lot of time/annoyance in the future. So: Type “about:config” in the address field and have Firefox open it as if it was an Internet URL....

On unix-compatible systems, you can schedule Skype to make phone calls. For instance, On OS X, you can do it with a simple crontab setup, like: 55 7 * * * open callto://+13056740165 > /tmp/skype.log which will call certain unfriendly company’s customer service number, every day at 7:55 AM.

Most of you, probably, already know the whole deal with the Registerfly crisis, so I won’t bore you re-telling weeks-old story. I happen to be a misfortunate customer of theirs, too, however. So, I wanted to share some of my experiences that may be helpful if you have domains with them. Firstly, you have to...

It’s an old quote from Steve Jobs (1996, imho) but in the light of current events, it still seems very relevant: “When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks...

Calendar module is one of the most useful modules in Drupal. It allows to create and view different events in time. Equally important module is Printer-Friendly which allows to have Print link and formats page in a printer-friendly style. Unfortunately, Printer-Friendly module only works with node pages and calendar views are Views module pages so...

Yahoo!’s Open Source CMS Summit will host DrupalCon on March 22 and 23, 2007, at Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale, CA. Do not miss it! Register today and learn more about this amazing, open-source CMS system from the source - people working on Drupal.

Irresponsible and short-sighted behaviour like this of Wal-Mart is why people have to put up with evil garbage like Internet Explorer: P.S. Before you start frowning or chuckling, I encourage you to follow the links objectively demonstrating an example of why Internet Explorer is indeed evil and equally garbage

Sun Microsystems is a decent company with arguable marketing strategies. A shiny example of the desperation of their marketing team has recently appeared on the homepage of Sun’s Java website: Honestly, I have no idea why is Sun of such low opinion of its target audience. I would doubt that JEE developer community can not...

The biggest news of the day, in the tech industry, is that Marc Fleury has quit JBoss/RedHat. Honestly, I do not think there is much to say about this fact. As soon as RedHat acquired JBoss many of us knew it would happen, because of how unfitting Fleury’s personality is in a culture like RedHat....

Dries recently published Drupal 5 performance benchmark results. I would like to share some of my thoughts about the subject. First, of course, we should appreciate that Dries took time and performed the test. Better some results than none. However, it is only natural that objective audience mostly meets benchmark results with certain level of...

By now, we’ve all learnt that simply putting a link to your e-mail address on a website means exposing yourself to spammers. Bad idea! For this reason, contact forms with captcha are often used instead. But sometimes we do want to display an e-mail address. What to do? Well, security through obscurity may not be...