Fresh Blurbs by Irakli Nadareishvili

Yeah, I know - CVS is an archaic mess and there’s not a single reason in the entire world to be using it in 2009… except if you are a Drupal contributor and need to maintain a module (or contribute to one) on drupal.org.

Joomla has announced availability of new ACL: http://is.gd/iA5B and they seem pretty excited about it.

Twitter is one of the tech wonders that really took off last year.

King is dead, long live the King!

Disclaimer: Views2 Advanced Help contains a more detailed and comprehensive documentation on the same subject.

The official website of the United Nation’s World Food Programme has launched its new, redesigned and re-engineered website, today, in beta mode: http://beta.wfp.org.

During my recent macbook pro upgrade, I had a sweet time automatically migrating my entire old macbook to the new one using Migration Assistant.

If you are on the latest version of OS-X Leopard (10.5.6) and Safari (3.2.1) you most probably have encountered the infamous Safari Can Not Keep Cookies problem.

J2EE servers (Tomcat, JBoss, you name it) usually run on a port that is higher than 1000.

I must admit, I’ve always been skeptical about portlets (or whatever else you happen to be calling the same notion in your technology).

CCK Node Reference is an excellent module that allows creation of complex relationships between content types in Drupal.

If you are working on a system with somewhat large number of tables, you probably have wanted to delete a number of tables matching a pattern (dropping all tables is a specific case of this one).

Ok, so you can swear Solr was working just fine on your Drupal website and suddenly it does not!

The Right Way is obviously CSS 3.0: rgba(R,G,B,ALPHA), but since only Safari supports CSS 3.0 currently (to the best of my knowledge, but you bet IE does not) the “right way” is out of question.

OK, it’s official: I am in love with a hosting company.

Yum is a standard installation utility for CentOS 5.2.

I found it very interesting to listen to this Web 2.0 Summit presentation by Jeffrey A.

Fantastic news for OpenID: “This is a historic week for OpenID.

If you care about the future of the Internet we kindly ask you to join a good cause.

I finally got around developing a little, nifty Drupal module I’ve been craving for, for a really long while now.

Designing professional reports in Drupal is not trivial.

Nice trick: add “&fmt=18” to a YouTube URL and you can enjoy stereo audio and better-quality picture (requires more bandwidth, of course).

DrupalCon DC was announced today on Drupal.org.

A popular joke of the 21st century has been that the Web is “ruled” by teenagers.

Software engineering has introduced the paradigm of the separation of the View (visual representation) from the Model (business logic) long time ago.

I woke up feeling a little prophet-ish this morning.

Interesting choice of graphics from Joomla: Check this: And then look at the striking similarity of the World Bank logo: Could have come up with something more original.

Cooliris is one of these new gadgets that sound cool in somebody’s blog review, but do not live up to an expectation when actually used.

If you work in a noisy office (or home) environment and can’t concentrate, this is a must-have Mac app: http://www.blackholemedia.com/noise/

Quick Note: the Administration Menu module in Drupal seems to have some weird bug in ver. 5.2.5 which causes menu items listing to disappear on admin/build/menu configuration page.

Google released to open-source its “language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible way of serializing structured data for use in communications protocols, data storage, and more”: Protocol Buffers.

Geeks among us often wonder what a website is built with.

Firefox 3.0 web-browser has been released!

The intro/description from IBM’s new Project Zero caught my eye right away: “We’re building an agile development environment leveraging scripting runtimes such as Groovy and PHP, and optimized for producing REST-style services, integration, mash-ups, and…

FTP is an insecure, outdated and overall horrible protocol that you should never use yourself.

David E.

A very insightful and fun presentation that is not boring, from people who really get it: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/soa-without-esb Awesome job!

Really nice and useful tool: http://www.pixelatedsoftware.com/products/pixelstick/ Tools like this one are plenty, but this particular one has a great user-interface.

Web 1.0: Global reach to content publishing.

Microsoft has recently awarded a $300M account to a star ad-agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky.

Some extremely exciting news in the world of Agile and Dynamic languages: Passenger (mod_rails) released and the popular, mass-hosting provider DreamHost is now offering mod_rails hosting.

We’ve blogged about hardcore Drupal Form Manipulations using CCK Node Types and hooks.

Via: AgileApproach Blog Drupal Form-Handling support goes far beyond just the documented part of so-called Forms API.

Disclaimer: the problem and the solution are not unique to LAMPP.

Very interesting: Twitter is abandoning Ruby on Rails due to claimed scalability problems:\ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-abandoning-ruby-on-rails/

MacBook Air is undoubtedly one of the most revolutionary gadgets released lately.

Nice and funny “analysis” of the Internet community on CreateDebate

Some of the blogs I often find to have useful Drupal information (in alphabetical order):

One of the hottest subjects in Web technologies, these days, is finding effective ways to exploit Collective Intelligence of masses.

I do usually try to not bash any particular company, in my blog posts.