A virtual proof that name is awesome! / These instructions are for Drupal 7 but should work equally well under Drupal 6. By default Drupal sends out all its emails in plain text, but there are some good modules available that make it easy to send out HTML mails. The two most popular ones are HTML Mail and... Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0200 //2011-11-18-sending-html-email-in-drupal/ //2011-11-18-sending-html-email-in-drupal/ I'm working on a website that required an easy way to associate locations with a content type. It should be possible to first select a Province from a dropdown list, and then choose from a list of the towns in that province. I have implemented this using the following popular... Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0300 //2011-09-02-populating-a-vocabulary-with-provinces-towns-and-postal-codes/ //2011-09-02-populating-a-vocabulary-with-provinces-towns-and-postal-codes/ The use case: a multilingual Drupal 7 site, with each language having a different node to serve as front page. Each of the nodes have the same URL alias "home". Setting the homepage to the "home" URL does not work, since the Path module is returning the first match it... Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0300 //2011-08-04-setting-a-different-front-page-for-each-language-in-drupal-7/ //2011-08-04-setting-a-different-front-page-for-each-language-in-drupal-7/ Hamster is a very handy time tracking tool for Gnome. It is an applet which lives in the Gnome panel which is great as it is always readily available. You can switch tasks and projects effortlessly, add tags to tasks, see pretty graphs and print out time sheets for your... Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0300 //2010-09-16-building-hamster-time-tracker-from-source/ //2010-09-16-building-hamster-time-tracker-from-source/ By default, Gnome does not provide a print option in the right-click menu of the file browser. Luckily it is very easy to add more functions to this menu. Nautilus will look into the ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts folder and add the files it finds there to the 'scripts'-entry in the context menu... Sun, 09 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300 //2010-05-09-printing-a-file-from-the-right-click-context-menu-in-nautilus/ //2010-05-09-printing-a-file-from-the-right-click-context-menu-in-nautilus/ Web site owners prefer to have a CMS that is tailored to their personal computer expertise level. TinyMCE is great for the less computer literate user, as its button driven interface resembles the common word processors they are familiar with and all confusing HTML markup is hidden. TinyMCE can be... Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0200 //2010-01-29-easy-to-use-content-editing-with-tinymce/ //2010-01-29-easy-to-use-content-editing-with-tinymce/ I run Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 on my Acer Aspire One netbook. A couple of days ago my SSD drive died and until the replacement drive arrives I would like to continue using the netbook, running the operating system directly from a USB stick. I always use UNetbootin to put... Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0200 //2010-01-06-running-ubuntu-netbook-remix-from-a-persistent-live-usb-stick-the-easy-way/ //2010-01-06-running-ubuntu-netbook-remix-from-a-persistent-live-usb-stick-the-easy-way/ Update This article is outdated. VLMC can now easily be installed on Ubuntu using this PPA: VLMC Daily Build PPA for Ubuntu. I was very excited to learn that the developers of the VLC player are working on a cross platform non-linear video editor. I spent some time getting it... Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0200 //2009-12-24-install-vlmc-video-editor-in-debian-and-ubuntu/ //2009-12-24-install-vlmc-video-editor-in-debian-and-ubuntu/