Drupal

Community is our strength - moments of Drupal epiphany.

HornCologne — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:32:46 +0200

Following two incredible Open Source Con experiences in the last three weeks - frOScon in St. Augustin Germany and the DrupalCon in Szeged Hungary - I have been feeling incredibly positive. I feel that I found what really matters to me in the FOSS world and probably the world at large ... I felt strong moments of epiphany in Szeged on this ...

It is all about community. Community, bringing people together to cooperate, working towards common goals and ideals, this is what makes us strong and successful in the Drupal community and what can make us strong elsewhere in life.

The Mysteries of CSS

HornCologne — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:21:13 +0200

"I already taught you everything I know about CSS when I showed you how to put a red border around a div."

— Robert Douglass, April 2008.

CSS reset and Fonts + CSS and Internet Explorer

HornCologne — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:34:15 +0200

A couple of questions came up in our users group get together last night and I thought I should probably post the answers here again for everyone to see.

Merry Xmas!

HornCologne — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:41:18 +0100

Well, happy holidays people!

Edit: Note the quality difference between the first and the second image. Although I uploaded both of them from the same large source jpg file using IMCE, the Image Toolkit settings are different. It turns out that Drupal's out of the box, standard compression quality setting (using php's GD2 image toolkit) is 75%.

The first one was scaled using the 75% setting and it gave me a bunch of ugly jpeg artifacts (especially in the red area), yuck!

Updating your Drupal installation - a couple of nice shortcuts

HornCologne — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:43:33 +0100

So having gone from Drupal 5.2 to 5.3 only last week, Drupal 5.4 came out this week and I thought I had better streamline my update process, putting some stuff in place to make the process smooth, quick, easy and *reversible* ... just in case. Since Drupal 5.5 came out while I was sleeping last night, I can now test my own instructions and time the entire update process ... see below for the results.

Simple Hack for Styling the Drupal Contact Page

HornCologne — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:20:21 +0100

Images on the contact page! Always tricky getting the Drupal contact page to look like the rest of the site, but I found a nice workaround for simple themes.