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...

A colleague at work just sent this to me: http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/ Well, I am glad to see that at least some people in the Linux community take the Redmond company seriously and try to respond to the “powerful” Genuine Windows Advantage program with adequate measures. J/K :)

Arguably, Web 2.0 is a loaded, even bloated word. And yet, there are things out there that are obviously 2.0, obviously cool and excite us to the extent that we still keep using the term and it still sounds good. One such thing is the new kid on the block: Arto Bendiken’s free service to...

For some content types and properties, default height of the textarea field in Drupal is 5 rows. That’s too low in itself but if you install TinyMCE, it just plain squishes: Obviously, you can resize the field but why should the default be messed-up and scare users away? Following is a quick-fix for the problem....

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