Du Vien Trang is a Freelance Web Designer / Developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is his portfolio, blog and digital playground.

As of this morning, Ubercart has a beta release for use with Drupal 6, and it's ready to have the snot kicked out of it by some hard-hitting testers. Most of the changes from Ubercart 1 are internal, so experiencing Drupal 6 will probably be the biggest difference. We have also trimmed down our dependencies so that Token is the only core requirement to use Ubercart. Image support still requires the Content module from CCK along with ImageAPI, ImageAPI GD2, Image Cache, Filefield, and Imagefield.

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Smart Look is a new free online service which help to turn all the document-download links on your site into browser-viewable documents. It works for PDFs, slideshows, or regular text documents. You just insert some code onto your site, and it does the rest. Instead of an embedded viewer, it launches a new overlay window where you can see the document in all of its glory, search it, page through it, and even print it.

Check out the sample site: ismartlook.com

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Virtualbox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

This is a great free alternative to run a virtual machine on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris.

This may be a trivial case where user 1 (uid 1) can actually be deleted. This is the first user that you create on a fresh installation of Drupal and allows for full administration rights like a root user. But when you think about it, it is critical that this user should be prevented from being able to be deleted, otherwise you are completely locked out from doing any full administration on your site and to try and get this user back is a real pain in the ass. Just as bad is the fact you can also delete anonymous user (uid 0).  read more »

Animata is an open source real-time animation software, designed to create animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances.

Modern Lovers is a site i built for a friend (Craig) who runs a club night (Modern Lovers) in Edinburgh. He supplied me with the design and i shaped and molded it into a Drupal 6 theme. Many contrib modules were installed to provide more functionality.  read more »

iPhone is gaining ever more popularity and by next year, no doubt twice as much. So this is a good time to keep up with trend and put your site one step ahead. Sorry this post is not about creating iPhone apps or widgets but to enhance and tweak your website to work better with an iPhone.

I'm not going to go into details as this article is a great start and probably explains it better than i do. However, even though it mentions about using Safari to test your site since Webkit (Safari rendering engine) is used on an iPhone, i recommend you take a look at iphoney as an alternative to test your site.

As the recession puts pressure on tech spending, many companies are turning to open-source software to handle more IT tasks.

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Being that Views is both a very popular module and included in Acquia Drupal, we get a lot of questions regarding how to configure and customize views in various ways. One thing that has come up a few times is a customer wanting to add custom searching or filters to their views.

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