Oxford Geek Night 13: it’s actually happening June 30th, 2009

Two weeks to OGN13, and I’m running round like a loon as usual.

New alpha version of Drupal EditInline module June 29th, 2009

EditInline is four, er, alpha subversions old. I bought it a cake.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-28 June 28th, 2009

Cotes d’Armor version of Truck Festival has a lot more harmonica. #
Waiting outside ‘Cash Affaires,’ French for ‘Last Days of Peak Oil.’ #
Support your local businesses, unless they’re ferms vendredi. #
Never thought I’d be so relieved to be able to buy milk after 5.30pm. #
Thankfully our home is still standing, and far tidier than we [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21 June 21st, 2009

At home, recovering. Wonder how Bryan’s going on. Whether he’s even got as far as the breakfast buffet yet. #
@ollyw wow, is that really from Book for Boys? Scaling from the ladder, it’s huge. Own up: you’ve already found space for a beer fridge, no? #
catching up on my @ replies. Maybe I need a [...]

Oxford Geek Night 13 sponsored by the Guardian Open Platform June 17th, 2009

You heard it here second, probably; immediately after on the mailing list.

Django internal architecture: a nice PDF June 15th, 2009

Get that blasted workflow away from me, you fiends.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-14 June 14th, 2009

Bury Knowle park was briefly sunny and lovely, and then the clouds rolled in. We got a good dozen or so signups to the Big If, though. #
I hardly saw any sun, and the rain fell so hard back in Eynsham that our back path filled up with two inches of water: but still I’m [...]

Form and content at Oxford Geek Night #13 June 7th, 2009

The future of textual rendering and data visualizations at OGN13.

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-07 June 7th, 2009

Tottered back from picnics to Eynsham and fell asleep for an hour. Now reading through house documentation. Ugh. #
Video of the Kingsnorth Six went live yesterday on Greenpeace’s site: hooray! It all works! http://bit.ly/xwndA #
RT @owenblacker: Disgusted at neo-Nazi English “Democrat” Steve Uncles mocking Chris Lightfoot’s death http://is.gd/Kyen #theEDParetwats #
Ohhh, two wagtails flirting on the [...]

User loading and saving in Drupal 6.x June 1st, 2009

Nearly a year ago I broke down user_load() and user_save() in Drupal 5. I had to put together workflows for a number of jobs, specifically integrating the creation, instantiation and updating of users with an external system. Fast forward nearly twelve months, and we have to do it all over again for D6, for different [...]