Feb
12
2007

Twitter in my blog

I was supposed to be doing promo work but instead messing around with new drupal modules. I installed the Twitter module that James Walker released recently ( to post blog entries to twitter.com that are displayed on the public timeline)

You can see my 'twitters' at http://twitter.com/chrisherberte

Today I'll explain the jQuery + Interface Elements' effects that (at the time of writing) are a part of our design.

These two effects, which have been designed to be unobtrusive are for adding some animation effects which was out of the scope of css.

1). Bouncy Content/Main <div>
This is an effect from a Flash template which I liked and adds the bouncy content div effect on page load.

The jQuery code to do this is:

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Drupal 1.0.0 was released 6 years ago, today. To celebrate the event, Karlijn and Dries made some cookies. http://buytaert.net/happy-sixth-birthday-drupal

And who can forget the M&M cake from last year: http://buytaert.net/happy-fifth-birthday-drupal

By default "apt-get remove package" doesn't purge everything related to the package. This eventually means that a log of configuration files are left scattered around the place with no corresponding packages. A couple of weeks ago, the following solution was proposed on #linux:

dpkg --purge `dpkg --get-selections | grep deinstall | cut -f1`

It seems that Drupal 5.0 is very close to completion with the issue queue at < 10 at the time of writing. Many users awaiting anxiously for RC release throwing a bone to the code contributors who are going like a "cut cat" to the first RC out there.

Ted Serbinski has been working especially hard in the Theme code, giving us split css files which is a much needed core hack.

Ted has also re/created some functions and added features to css inclusion and a variable for that damn feed icon.

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Setting up a Drupal installation on my laptop to make it easier to develop themes offline i encountered the following error:

PHP MySQL support not enabled.

We were unable to use the MySQL database because the MySQL extension for PHP is not installed. Check your PHP.ini to see how you can enable it. For more help, see the Installation and upgrading handbook. If you are unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your hosting provider.

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So I've been contracted to do a wireless network for a local pub. I have configured wireless networks before, in fact while at a company I worked for a few years back, i set up a number of access points some being about 6km apart. (ego) anyway, after spending an hour or so at this pub wondering why my laptop would not see the wireless router, I got on Google and spent another hour looking for answers. So totally baffled as to what it was, updating drivers, adjusting settings I see on some forum that there is, on some laptop keyboards a button to turn on the wireless! Nice one.

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May
08
2006

Web Design Feng Shui

I'm in the library looking for css2 books, and next to the computer section is the spirituality section. So i get distracted by a feng shui book and a quick scan through got me thinking. There is chi energy even in web design, well it sounded right. So i googles a bit of info on web feng shui and, of course there's a few sites discussing the ins and outs of "web feng shui". There's a huge variation in opinions as to what elements of design are effectively "good feng shui" but I guess 5000 year old design principles which are still accepted cant be ignored.

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Feb
13
2006

Pong micro animation

So i was bored...

Do you see it?

After a bit of searching, I could not find Maildir support in Alpine although it does support IMAP over SSL nicely as did Pine.

I found it was as simple as checking that ssh via key (as apposed to user/pass aauthentication) was working to the mail server. If you have not already, set up your authorized key on the server.

Then setting the Alpine inbox to your server's hostname example.com

chris@server:~$ ssh server /usr/sbin/dovecot --exec-mail imap

* PREAUTH ...CUT... Logged in as [YOU]

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