Lessons: Use Cases matter, and programmers (the users in this case) will choose tools that are both simple, in that they are not complicated/over-engineered, and easy to use, requiring little setup and code to accomplish a task. For parsing data with PHP, constrast using something like SimpleXML or DOMDocument (which is light-years better than where […]
Don’t follow the advice posted below to “optimize” your site based on the user agent string. The author suggests doing so in the page.tpl.php for your theme. However, this means you can NEVER turn caching on for your site. Also, the uses ereg functions to “detect” the device. These functions are now deprecated by PHP,
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While its hard to read the press release from the World Health organization below and make any sense of the tortured language, it basically says that while food is the main source of BPA exposure, the science as to its effects is inconclusive. Also, BPA is eliminated from the body rather quickly. Was it a
I’m working on a mobile web site and one of the things that can be done to make it more usable is to make targets larger, so that user’s don’t have to be as accurate to trigger an event. It is an application of Fitt’s Law. In this case, I was trying to make the
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I’ve long been a fan of Bobby Convey, and was glad he was included on the 2006 World Cup squad, along with another favorite of mine, Ben Olsen. He did it again, last week, making D.C. United fans everywhere happy by knocking New York out of the MLS Playoffs. Given the lack of options on the
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Hoping to test out the latest beta of Mozilla’s Mobile Firefox but have a myTouch 3G? You may be out of luck, while the official builds don’t support the chip in the device, there is an Arm 6 build which is listed as compatible. I downloaded it and tried to install it, but it wouldn’t install either,
Here’s a sign of hope that thinking rationally may end up helping us solve a number of problems. Last night saw a TV programme in the UK called What the Green Movement Got Wrong, in which various greens admitted that they had done terrible harm by opposing nuclear power and GM food and indoor DDT.
Jason posted a link to an earlier piece of his, The Tragedy Of Barack Obama the same day the Freakonomics podcast asks “It’s Election Day: Can You Really Blame the President?”
While Panels is great for controlling the layout of drupal pages, there are times when you can’t use the module to theme a page. For uncached content, it does introduce some performance overhead into the drupal request change. It can also be tedious to migrate changes from one environment to the other if you don’t
I'm testing using Disqus for commenting here. Drupal's core comment module is adequate but Disqus provides a number of features, particluarly integration with Facebook and Twitter, that would require more work otherwise. There's even a Disqus module that integrates the plugin as a block. While it doesn't integrate with Mollom, it does integrate with Akismet,