Light Fantastic; Backporting A Great Drupal 6 Contrib Theme To Drupal 5

I recently searched on Themebot for a great contributed Drupal flexible-width theme for DrupalSouth.net.nz and found Light Fantastic. Joshua Brauer created the awesome Light Fantastic theme as part of the Google Summer of Code 2007. Screenshot of Light Fantastic on DrupalSouth.net.nz: See a larger image. read more

Listing of all Drupal modules, by KentBye

This is an interesting and probably also useful view of all contrib modules; http://www.kentbye.com/files/drupal_modules_all.html and images on Flickr. KentBye is the creator of the visualise backtrace module, which also kicks arse! Go Kent!

Location Package In Drupal 6

CivicActions recently undertook a project to review, upgrade, test and patch many contributed Drupal 6 modules to ensure their compatibility with localization (multi-lingual website support). While the endeavour has been supported by Sony BMG for their Drupal multisite on which they run about 80 artist websites and MyPlay.com, the resulting localization-compatible modules will benefit countless Drupal sites including those of some of our other clients when they upgrade to Drupal 6.

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Location Package In Drupal 6

CivicActions recently undertook a project to review, upgrade, test and patch many contributed Drupal 6 modules to ensure their compatibility with localization (multi-lingual website support). While the endeavour has been supported by Sony BMG for their Drupal multisite on which they run about 80 artist websites and MyPlay.com, the resulting localization-compatible modules will benefit countless Drupal sites including those of some of our other clients when they upgrade to Drupal 6.

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Logo Contest Favourites

[Update: This had the wrong tag to get on Planet Drupal] As others have noted, the DrupalCon Boston logo contest is closing soon, so you'd better get your votes in. Here are my personal favourites; About 3rd as far as user-votes go, with 36 points; DB8 LauraS only just submitted this one, so it's only got a few votes so far: BoSox style by Don Hajicek at pingVision

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Lullabot's 50 tips and tricks

This is useful even for the most seasoned Drupal user and developer; http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/podcast-50-drupal-tips-and-tricks

Mac Favicon 3

UPDATE: Mac Favicon and Mac Favicon XL have been deprecated and rereleased. See http://drupal.geek.nz/blog/mac-favicon-deprecated-and-released With Firefox 3's release now imminent, a number of people have contacted me about whether there will be a version of my Mac Favicon theme for FF3. While the short answer is "yes", the long answer is more complicated; I won't be able to take this on anytime soon -- probably not till August. A couple of folk have contacted me about doing it themselves.

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Mac Favicon Deprecated -- And RELEASED!

Firefox 3 Upgrade? Mac Favicon and Mac Favicon XL themes will not be updated for Firefox 3. However, you can restore this feature in Firefox 3 using userstyles.org and the 'Stylish' Fiefox extension. Click your preferred style below, then click 'Load into Stylish' and follow the instructions from userstyles.org; Mac Favicon, Firefox 3: show favicons next to bookmark names/titles Mac Favicon XL, Firefox 3: show favicons only (hide bookmark names/titles).

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MacBook Air notes

Now I've had almost a day to recover from my yearly applegism, I thought I'd note a few highlighted thoughts on this hot new gadget. Check out my tweets starting from Wednesday 16 January NZST for a full log of my applegasmic experience. The Ad is beautiful. I seriously admire apple's marketing team. See the Ad Steve jobs pulled it out of an envelope at the keynote too. Very cool!

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Make it work, make it right, make it fast

I’ve recently come to appreciate Make it work, make it right, make it fast. — Kent Beck Applied to an individual development task, it means to distinctly separate each of these phases of development and to only transition from to the next task when the previous one is complete; Get the feature to work as fast as possible. The goal here is only to understand the problem and find solution(s).

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