Archive for 2006/07/23

• Say "Hello" to the neighbours again

  I guess there is no price for the uglies Drupal module out there, right? Otherwise I think my little zk_blockroll module that provides the "Neighbours" listing down to your left would probably have a quite good chance of winning it. The module is really a mess. It consists of 3 files:

  • One for the actual Drupal module that renders the links the block
  • One for fetching the links from del.icio.us written in Ruby and
  • ... one that stores these fetched links

  Let's see how long I can live with this. It's just a temporary solution since I wasn't really motived to write something using Drupal's cron tools and put the output into the database, but I guess, I will do just that in a few days when I have more motivation :) For now it works and that's all that matters to me right now.

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  • drupal
  • zerokspot
  • zk_blockroll

  2006/07/23 at 20:35:56

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• Block Performancing Metrics logging from specific paths in Drupal

  Well, I guess you don't want Performancing Metrics logging all your jumping around in the admin panel, right? Solving this is actually quite simple. I assume that you have added Metrics' <script> in your theme's page.tpl.php. The cool thing about PHP template engines like phptemplate is, that you can probably most of the functions available through the API of whatever CMS you're using.

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  • drupal
  • metrics
  • performancing

  2006/07/23 at 16:20:33

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• S5 is no longer a one-man show

  Eric Meyer's web standards based presentation system S5 seems to be about to move out into its own project home with s5project.org, set up by Ryan King. The aim seems to be to offer all S5 users a community platform for sharing information and customizations.

  And for those of you that don't know S5 yet, think about it as PowerPoint in your web browser using XHTML, JavaScript and CSS.

  For more details about what is going on with S5 and what is planed for the near future, check out the announcement by Ryan King :)

  Hmm.... that somehow reminds me that I was actually working on an "Alternatives to PowerPoint" article when I wrote a paper a month or so ago ...

  • css
  • html
  • javascript
  • powerpoint
  • s5
  • webdevelopment

  2006/07/23 at 13:41:13

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