After recently reading about how great VIM is for the three hundredth and fifty second time (I kept count), I decided to take a look.

It really is quite cool! I've also decided to try to log any cool tips I learn about it. Here is the first which I found after running the coder module on one of my modules (Page Title 2) and it threw hundreds of errors about too many trailing spaces on empty lines.

I have just finished commiting my very first theme to the drupal community! I'm not a designer by nature - I prefer to be deep in the code. Thats why I commited this theme - it contains very little design (in terms of Photoshop work). This design is, pretty much, image free! On top of that - its SEO friendly too!

I say 'Pretty much' because it is still using 3 core image files for the bullet points. But what I'm pleased about is the curved CSS-only corners with a slight gradient on them AND the fact that if you remove content from a column, the content fills out over it automatically.

Following my previous post about configuring Lighttpd on this VPS Webserver to replace Apache I bring you a guide to configuring AWStats under Lighttpd. This process is differs to Apache as control of directories and aliasing is handled differently. There can also be complications if you have previously enabled the Drupal LUA Magnet script on your site for clean URL handling!

I've just committed another module - Node Quick Find. That brings my projects to a nice round 10!

This module is a pretty basic one though. It simply provides a block which has an autocomplete field. This field is linked to the Node Title field. You start typing the Node Title and it will start suggesting possible nodes you might be interested in - sort of like a primitive search box.

It features primitive configuration, allowing an administrator to easil configure the title of the prompt, the size and the types of nodes returned in the autocomplete list (eg, you may want to limit the list to blogs only).

Every blog worth its weight needs a Facebook page!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thingy-Ma-Jig...../22760952880

Lets see how many fans I get! This is also a test in a way. I wanna see if Facebook could provice any kind of useful traffic.

Just over 2 weeks since we started, my friend, Janak, and I have just finished our 3^rd round of Drupal Wallpaper Photoshop Tennis.

If you haven't heard about this yet, the principal is to take a theme or idea and keep bouncing designs back and forth and at the end, a winner is decided.

Read more to see all the wallpaper previews until now.

After Matt Farnia posted about the utter lack of Drupal Wallpapers, my friend and I decided to have a Photoshop Tennis contest.

I was browsing around the Devel Module the other day and I noticed a few functions that are not mentioned in any documentation that I've seen but make life even easier, as if Devel doesn't make it easy enough! Almost everyone that's used Devel will be familiar with dprint_r (A debug version of the popular print_r function in PHP). Well who has used these ones?

• dpr – Shortcut for dprint_r.
• dvr – Similar to dpr, but uses var_dump instead of print_r.
• dpm – Similar to dpr but print_r's a variable as a message using drupal_set_message.
• dvm – Similar to dpm but uses var_dump instead of print_r.

Following on from my Numbering Rows in MySQL article, today I needed to populate the weight column of the term_data table for about a hundred terms so that they incremented in alphabetical order. This was, on the face of it, a very tedious task; click edit, select weight from drop-down, submit, 'goto 1'.

As I said in my Numbering Rows in MySQL article, I don't like tedious - but I do like over-complicated methods which actually make my life more interesting and less tedious... Enter a nifty MySQL script!

I recently launched a Drupal Codebase site for a programming community and wanted to have the user profiles to be more than just a "signed up on..." and a Tracker Tab. I wanted them to have structured and customisable blocks, dynamic content, a Peer to Peer Message Board (almost finished)... I can have my dreams cant I?!

I recently wrote a book page on how to programmatically create a view. I wanted to do this as it would allow to me control almost an entire website with multiple content types, terms and users (as well as combinations of the three) along with RSS feeds - all powered by the Views Module + a bolt on module consisting mostly of a menu callback and a function to make and configure a view. This worked pretty well for a first try and principle test!

I then realised - hey, if you can do this with Views - why cant you do it with Panels too? Panels are fantastically useful for structuring multiple blocks, views and nodes onto a page. So I tried… And you can!

I recently needed to find out a list of modules which used hook_cron. I have SSH access to my server. Instead of writing a module (or using devel to execute some PHP) which returned the result of module_implements, I turned to Grep. Simple CD into your modules folder (can be the Drupal install, but you end up recursing through unlikely folders) and run this:

grep -R "^function.*_cron" *module

I've recently been receiving some spam from some Russian IP's. As each spam attempt was from a different IP, blocking individual ones was a little futile and time consuming. I did a quick google and ended up at Deekayen's website as it seem's he has had similar issues. His solution was an Apache level "Deny"… My sollution uses iptables.

Need themes for Nokia N73? Download Nokia N73 Themes for free for your Nokia N73 handset.

I found this site while looking around the net. I am considering getting a Nokia N73 and I wanted to know what resources were out there. Then I found this site…

Well I'm back home - fortunately my flight was better leaving the US than it was entering. I only managed to snap 7 photo's, however I've had them on Flickr almost as soon as I'd taken them. I've also now created a Flickr group which is completely public and free to join. Please add your photo's to this pool!

Well Day 2 is starting soon. Lets see what this beautiful new day brings!

I recently wanted to try out my drupal websites in IE 6.0 (and ideally 5.55 too, for compatibility) however since IE7 was released, its been harder and harder to find a computer with IE6 left on it!

Step in: Multipel_IE

A single install file containing IE 3 through to 6…

I bought the domain a while ago but haven't had time to set anything up - well this is a start. Its not much to shout about yet (and probably never will be) but I'm pleased with the design and think that its good to have a kind of "CV" site.

Drupal 5.0 is out!

Get yourself over to…

http://drupal.org/drupal-5.0

What a fantastic coincidence - releasing Drupal 5.0 on its 6th birthday... Its like it was planned or something!

Faced with a tedious task of ordering a set of rows using a weight column? Don't want to type the numbers out? Would rather find a difficult but more interesting method? I have the answer for you!

Rob Douglass has dugg a fantastic article he found on Josh Koenig's blog. It has taught me something new and usefull, which I ALWAYS appreciate. You can have arguments/wildcards in bookmarks…

Drupal 5.0 beta1 has been announced.

It comes with many new features, including a web-based install system, improved administration tools, and a shiny new theme! There are also tons of under-the-hood improvements, such as the inclusion of the jQuery JavaScript library, node access system improvements (ACL), and many improvements to the Form API.

read more at drupal.org

A project I've been working on for months, recently accelerated with the assistance of two newly employed colleagues (who are picking up this Drupal thing VERY quickly!) have meant that www.sportbusiness.com has finally moved from an old Solaris and Oracle setup with no server management or backup facility to a nice shiny new one with a company called Rackspace.