Garbage collection, in a very real sense
Carbon rationing action groups (CRAGs) are groups of people who agree to measure their carbon (dioxide) use. They also agree on an upper limit for the year, and a per-tonne levy for anyone exceeding it. As the twelve months pass them by, they meet, chat, swap tips and advice, and generally try to meet the [...]
Gutsy Gibbon on a Dell: almost everything has been fixed (edit: see Hardy Heron for absolutely everything being fixed).
Steve Yegge on code’s worst enemy:
… This brings us to the second obviously-bad thing that can go wrong with code bases: copy and paste. It doesn’t take very long for programmers to learn this lesson the hard way. It’s not so much a rule you have to memorize as a scar you’re going to get [...]
Stones and Bones is being produced this weekend. Want a copy? Be quick and stick your details down here. I’ll print extras, of course, but only up to a round number.
Here’s a preview, with an excerpt from each story. The final lineup is largely unchanged from the table of contents agreed previously, although titles have [...]
I’ve created a small website for the driving instruction company who managed to get me to pass about eighteen months ago.
They’re great teachers and really highly qualified, as you can tell from the rash of logos on the homepage.
At Torchbox we’ve recently been building a website for Welsey-Barrell, a bespoke furniture maker’s, whose workshop is located in Ducklington just south of our offices. This site is now live:
Wesley-Barrell: the country’s leading maker of classic, quality furniture, built without compromise to last for generations… Wesley-Barrell benefits from being a family business as it provides [...]
Imagine you have a Drupal site: I have several, so that’s easy for me. Say you’ve got an index aggregating lots of your content in a listing, and it spans lots of pages. It’s probably a view created with the views module, slicing through your content in a special way.
Drupal has a core paging module [...]
CCK is Drupal’s way of making rich content. It means that nodes of any content type can have any kind of data attached to them, so you can have e.g. a directory of superstore outlets, where the outlet records have their longitude and latitude (editable by a Google Map widget) whereas the contact records (e.g. [...]
My parents-in-law own a cottage in a place in France called Pont Camarel. They asked me to build them a site. I did. That’s it.
(It’s maintained by the creaky old php-update system, which is awful; development of the site wasn’t helped by the system’s maintainer taking all the old forums down while he rebuilt it [...]
The slides for my Barcamp talk are available, for those who missed it (most of you, you swine). Of interest if you want to see a Drupal site that doesn’t look like a Drupal site, and how you might go about doing that.