Many websites purchase variations of a domain name to protect digital brand identity. At the minimum, companies want to own .com, .net, .org and ccTLD versions of their brand name. Logical step is to attach all these domains to the same website. But, wait - then the same pages will be accessible from different URLs...

The RSS feed subscribers are the most valuable users of your website. Those are the loyal customers, the true audience of your website. You do want to know how many of those you have and who they are. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, Drupal does not currently have a good module to track RSS Feed subscriptions....

Cache is an often-used, non-code related fix to performance problems. No matter what kind of cache you use, though (query cache, app cache etc.) you do need a mechanism to repopulate cache once it is invalidated by the system. And you definitely do not want it to be an unfortunate flesh-and-blood user who hit the...

Disclaimer: I found this great article on a Linux mailing list. It is written by Jake Dawley-Carr and I honestly do not know what the copyright is on it but since it was posted on a mailing list, I assume it is in public domain. If the author contacts me, I will remove it but...

After successful installation of Drupal, it is a good practice to put some extra security in place. I did not see it anywhere in Drupal documentation and I get this question all the time so here is the solution: Once you finish Drupal installation, secure the cron, install and update scripts so that they are...

Microsoft adCenter is an interesting example of Microsoft’s attempt to adopt Web 2.0 aesthetics. It clearly is very different from traditional Microsoft design and if you look in the source HTML - it is amazingly clean and semantic, especially for Microsoft. Apparently it was not done in Frontpage :) Alas, it’s one thing trying and...

Security Space has published this year’s ISP market share report. It provides an interesting view of top ISPs on the Internet. Very useful data for research and even just FYI.

When using Drupal, you may get a nasty error like: “warning: array_key_exists(): The second argument should be either an array or an object in…” It usually happens when you make DB dump and tar-up files and move all of it to another server/domain. Quick fix is as follows: you need to log into the database...

First 2007 Drupal meetup in DC is this Wednesday. You can find more information in Eric’s Announcement

XAMPP is one of the greatest (i.e most useful) bundled open-source packages that gives an easy, rich LAMP installation in seconds. If you have tried it, you know that installing many different PHP extensions is neither easy nor fun on Linux. Well, except, maybe on Debian/Ubuntu where you can easily add components with apt-get. Alas,...

Bjarne Stroustrup: “The purpose of a programming language is to help build good systems, where “good” can be defined in many ways. My brief definition is, correct, maintainable, and adequately fast.” Let’s see… We will skip the “adequately fast” part since I have no idea what adequate would be for Mr. Stroustrup and besides fast/slow...

“Innovation is “a meta-stable entity”. Nothing will kill it faster than trying to manage it, predict it, and put it on a timeline.” Vishva Dixit, vice president for research of Genentech

“The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but [t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.” “To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair...

Today is the day! After much waiting Drupal 5 is released. This is smoking hot release of a great open-source portal system and I have no doubt it will make Drupal even more popular.

Even though I have some Assembly language under my belt and have worked with, what I like to see as, wide variety of programming languges, I am still from the spoiled generation that learnt object-oriented programming before calculus and got on Java bandwagon early on. I was fortunate to have had privilege to work with...