Dropbox, more cross appliance goodness
Another short but sweet, after my last post about the Kindle I reaslized I had forgot to mention dropbox. Definitely worthy of a mention in the same thought as again I have had a wonderful experience...
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I recently started posting some random thoughts, comments etc, mostly about techie stuff else where. i think they are better posted here so I will drag those four articles into this blog shortlyAgain...
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JavaScript
This is an old post pulled from another site (for preservation) JavaScript has always been an important programming language for me, I use the term programming language rather than scripting language...
View ArticleGetting around DNS
This is an old post pulled from another site (for preservation) Jotting this down really, because it is the type of related problem that crops up every now and again and sometimes if my brain is not...
View ArticleTurning Chinese, no such thing as a standard search?
Short but sweet, this one. I have already noticed the filtering bubble on one or two sites that I use, particularly I increasingly get the "Chinese influence". Because of my interest in Chinese...
View ArticleMySql Definer problems
This is an old post pulled from another blog for preservationRecently whilst moving a legacy application, I had to make it more secure. In trying to make the database more secure I ran into one...
View ArticleProgrammer working hours (is 9-5 enough?)
This is an old post pulled from another blog for preservation IntroductionA while ago I heard the phrase "if they want to work 9-5 then why not just work in a shop?" applied to programmers, the...
View ArticleDrupal taxonomy manager module
IntroductionI am going to start using this blog to record more technical stuff and ideas, particularly Drupal related, sometimes just random thoughts or comments sometimes, more heavyweight. Hopefully...
View ArticleWelcome new hook_module_implements_alter
IntroductionWhilst trying to debug something in Drupal 7, I came across a nice new hook a while back. hook_module_implements_alter allows you to hook into any calls to module_implements. You get to...
View ArticleBreak out from Drupal (from the inside)
Quick post: sometimes you (or someone you are working with) may need to break out from Drupal, and generate a special page perhaps based on some existing php code that has been adapted or similar, but...
View ArticleDrupal 7 views vs entityFieldQuery pt1
IntroductionThis is the first part of a discussion in which I am hoping to layout a few basic thoughts, get some feedback and then come back with later posts and concrete code examples and design...
View ArticleDrupal framework learning curve pt1
IntroductionDrupal is a development framework for people who know PHP and know Drupal, one step more than a pure development framework Another start to a multi-part posting, this time working in on...
View ArticleDrupal 7 admin, some thoughts
IntroductionI keep labelling posts with pt1 and I do intend to re-visit them, however getting tired with that so this is labelled with 'some thoughts', I can always get back with some more thoughts at...
View ArticleWhen buying and reading books just works
A quick post about Kindle, Amazon and something just workingWhilst thinking about another blog post I wanted to write I remembered a book I read a long time ago: The Computer Connection by Alfred...
View ArticleDrupal bean module
IntroductionThe Drupal Bean module makes blocks into fieldable entities, providing some useful UI features for blocks out of the box and allows developers to create new block types in code via ctools...
View ArticleDrupal as framework pt2 where is my front controller?
IntroductionContinuing thoughts on Drupal7 (and to be fair probably just an exercise in tidying up my brain and not much use to others) as a web development framework, I highlighted one of the major...
View ArticleThemeing Drupal 7: Checking fields
IntroductionA very general thought, will add more specifics when I have done a bit more investigation.Considering the template end of themeing (so ignoring theme functions for this thought experiment)...
View ArticleThemeing Drupal 7: Depends on the team
Another steep learning Curve.A quick comment, following some discussion with other Drupal developers and interested parties last week at the last Bristol & The West, UK Drupal group meetup. It...
View ArticleWordPress from the ground up
IntroductionI have been putting some time aside to learning WordPress recently, in the the past I have had to do little bits and pieces on WordPress sites or a fiddle with something that doesn't quite...
View ArticleWordPress learning from the code in
My knowledge of WordPress is increasing quickly with little bits of time here and there, and I think I have finally found some functionality that will require me to develop a proper plugin, there...
View ArticleNew WordPress blog on the way
I started blogging about language learning many years ago (about seven I think), at the time using a service like Blogger was the path of least resistance, I was working on publishing platforms for...
View ArticleShoddy Drupal security advice from stopthehacker.com
Getting back into twitter and quickly encountering some of the things I dislike about the current social media and information saturation: shoddy content pushed out merely for traffic purposes and that...
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Background to Drupal entities
IntroductionThe first of a series of related posts about Drupal custom entities, all will be linked into here as they are published. If not useful in themselves I hope to at least provide lots of links...
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Drupal as a framework (the role of entities)
IntroductionThis is my second post in a series of related posts about Drupal entities the first is here.If Drupal was predominately a framework as opposed to a customisable CMS then you would expect...
View ArticleWhen and why to choose to use a Drupal custom entity
IntroductionEntities introduced into Drupal 7 and a number of contrib modules significantly improved the data modelling capabilities of Drupal. Prior to entities we were stuck with add-hoc solutions...
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