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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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