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

Each time you start a new website, one always has to go through a really mundane and tedious process of installing a clean version and then adding many modules before you get to the fun part and the is the build of the site. Having used Drupal for quite some time now. It's easy to figure out which modules will be used most (if not all) the time.  read more »

If you have ever developed a site which heavily relies on Taxonomies to built up sections of a large website, you know how tedious and frustrating of a tasks it can become.  read more »

There has been a buzz about Cooliris (formerly Piclens) for quite some time now and i'm surprised i haven't yet tried it out until now. Wow, i must say it really does live up to its expectations, the photo browsing application really does add a whole new dimension to viewing a gallery of photos.  read more »

As Drupal is fast becoming popular among web businesses and end-users looking for a better alternative open source content management system, many expert users or company specialising in Drupal now see a good opportunity in this market and have released training videos to help this growing audience.  read more »

When i first heard about Drupal Essential Training on the Drupal frontpage news announcement, i was very eager to learn how good this video training could be to attract end-users or generally users looking to migrate to a better CMS.

so naturally, i contacted the Tom Geller the author of this training video and asked for a free pass to review the video. After a few email exchanges i finally got the free access to view the video on Lynda.com. Big thanks to Tom Geller, that was very kind of you.

I'll have a review article of the training video posted up next week once i've gone thru all the videos. I've already seen some of the training videos and i can assure you that you'll be in for a nice treat. Stay tune... :)

Who says you need to be a PHP developer to build a community site with Drupal ;)

If you have been one of the unfortunate people (like myself) that could not attend the Drupalcon Szeged in Hungary, you can still keep up with some of the sessions that has been shown at the conference (link below). There are already some vidoes and pdf files posted up. The one i was really interested in was the Drupal redesign talk but there doesn't seem to be a video for it. Does anyone know if there is one available?

Sessions and BoFs, download slides and videos

I have been working on upgrading the caching contrib modules to Drupal 6 and started to notice some patterns and duplicated code, which led me to think Drupal's approach to caching in general. We currently have a fairly limited API for caching, but we have a magic bullet that helps us overcome some of these weaknesses: the cache.inc override system.

Read full article: Drupal caching with Cache Router

CacheRouter is also available for Drupal 5, however, you'll need to patch the core to use it.

Finally managed to update Austere theme for both Drupal 5 and 6.

It took awhile because i kept messing up the CVS tagging and branching, hence the big jump in the version... yikes! sorry. Really need to get my head around this damn CVS. I should be reading more of the Drupal Handbook.

Anyway, many thanks to Francis Pilon (of Raincity Studios) for cleaning up the code and making it conform more to Drupal coding standards.

You can grab a copy at: http://drupal.org/project/austere

Here's an excellent way of adding videos to your contents, thanks to Sean Effel of drupaltherapy.com for providing the screencast.  read more »