Drupal

How NOT to Optimize your Drupal website for a iPhone or iPod

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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Using Disqus for Comment

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,

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MLS Playoff Widget

Now that the MLS season is close to an end, the playoff picture will start to come into clearer view. Using the Embed Widget module for Drupal, I was able to take a block containing the standings as a single table and make it available as a widget that anyone can put on their own

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