July, 2008

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Jul
31

Wrong code snippet causing blank screen

Posted by duvien on July 31st, 2008

I was playing around with my Drupal 5 test site to add some PHP code snippet to Drupal in a block. Not sure what happen but upon saving my code snippet in a block the whole browser went blank and i was not able to do anything after that. No page display or any way to get back into my Drupal test site... yikes!  read more »

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Jul
30

A quick thank you note to...

Posted by admin on July 30th, 2008

Robert Douglass
Just wanted to say a big thank you to Robert Douglass who kindly took the time to contact me (and many other selected bloggers) to asked if we wish to have our site added to The Drupal planet. Couldn't turn this down, hell yeah! :-)

For those that know little about Robert Douglass (and shame on you not to know) - He is a long term contributor to the Drupal community (check his impressive list of contrib modules). He recently joined Acquia as a Senior Drupal Advisor.

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Jul
10

Site updated to Drupal 5.8

Posted by admin on July 10th, 2008

Just updated this site to Drupal 5.8. It seems everything is fine but as you can see from the tab blocks, it's broken. :(

Can't seem to pinpoint where it went wrong so will need to continue digging for clues. Bloody annoying when these little things happen as it really messes up the whole design since the tab really pulls it together. Oh! well i'm sure a fix is just around the corner. Better get some sleep for now... sigh!

UPDATE (30th July):
Sorry late posting (been busy) but just a quick note to say that Drupal 5.9 fixes all the issues encountered in this post. :)  read more »

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Jul
09

Porting Drupal 5 modules

Posted by duvien on July 9th, 2008

You will find that at the stage of upgrading Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 that some of your modules will cease to work. This is because modules must be developed to work with Drupal 6 due to changes within the Drupal API for each new release. If this happens then you will need to first check to see if there is a Drupal 6 release for the modules that you have installed by visiting the Drupal modules page.

If it exist then download the module and install it. Otherwise, you may help out and start porting the module so it will run on drupal 6. This isn't too difficult of a task, thanks to the core developers that have made it easier than before.

Porting Drupal 5.x module

Below is a great screencast taking you through a step-by-step process of how you can port any modules to Drupal 6 if it has not yet been done.

Topics covered include:

  • How to tell the module portage status of your Drupal site with the Upgrade Status module.
  • How to perform basic community research to determine the actual porting status of your modules.
  • Overview of the amazing Coder module and how to configure it.
  • Where to find more information about changes between Drupal versions.
  • How to use Coder module to convert a simple module from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6, step by step.
  • How to test to ensure the porting status was a success.
Porting Drupal modules

Big thanks to Angie (Webchick) Byron of Lullabot for the creating the video screencast.

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Jul
09

Upgrading Drupal version 5.x to 6.x

Posted by admin on July 9th, 2008

Upgrading from Drupal 5.x to 6.x

This screencast should help you to quickly upgrade from Drupal 5.x to 6.x

Thanks to Gregg Knaddison for creating the above screencast.

You may find that some of your modules will not work any more after an upgrade. To resolve this please read the next following article on Porting Drupal 5 modules.

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Jul
09

Installing Drupal 6

Posted by admin on July 9th, 2008

Before we can begin any work on Drupal, we must first prepare and install Drupal either on your web host server or locally on your own machine for testing.

Below is video clips to guide you through on how to install Drupal 6 (the process is pretty the same for Drupal 5):

Installing Drupal 6

Thanks to Addison (Add1sun) Berry of Lullabot.

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Jul
08

Path redirect with Drupal

Posted by admin on July 8th, 2008

Today, while I was doing a quick search on Google on my own site to see what result it will bring up, I was surprised to find a broken link which took a user to /taxonomy/term/CrossBrowserTesting.com page that doesn't exist on my site. I really don't know how that link ever popped up on Google.  read more »

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Jul
04

New features in Views 2 for Drupal 6

Posted by admin on July 4th, 2008

This screencast provides a 34 minute overview of the new features that Views 2 offers. This video shows off not all the new features, but it is a good starting point if you want to learn how to use Views 2.

Written and recorded by Greg Knaddison.  read more »

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Jul
02

Switching to Bulb mode on a Nikon D70

Posted by admin on July 2nd, 2008

Some people may not know but it is possible to get long exposure times (up to 30 seconds) on a Nikon D70. This is done by putting the camera into 'Bulb mode' as it is called. To do this, you'll need to set the camera setting to 'manual' mode and then turn the shutter speed dial until it goes into 'bulb mode'. Now when shooting, hold down the shutter button for as long as you want (this will be your exposure), when you release the button that is when it takes the shot.

A little advise, it is often better when you have something to control the button remotely while taking the shot as this will reduce any camera shake by holding down the button for a long time.

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