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Category Archives: Web
Lullabot: Assembling Pages with Drupal
David Burns of Lullabot makes a comparison of using Panels and Context for building page layouts in Drupal. Go to the original article »
Happy 10th Birthday phpBB!
The software powering the Mini Seven Club Nederland forum has reached its 10th birthday. Happy birthday phpBB. Edit: Comments to this post have been closed, since it seems to be a major source for comment spam on my blog. Go to the original article »
Dutch Cowboys: Internet Explorer 6 nadert uitsterving
Dat horen we graag. Go to the original article »
Henrik Sjökvist: The benefits of centralized contrib hosting
I’ve recently been saying that one big advantage Drupal and WordPress have over Joomla is the centralized hosting of “third party” contributions (plugins/extensions/modules). Yes, Joomla has the extensions directory, but come actually downloading the software, you get directed to the individual developer’s island website to do the download (where you might actually need to first [...]
Dutch Cowboys: Waarom het Semantic web van belang is
Semantisch web? In dit filmpje wordt uitgelegd wat het inhoud. Student Kate Ray interviewed a flock of researchers, entrepreneurs and other innovators for her 14-minute documentary, Web 3.0. Go to the original article »
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Joomlatools: Advising to NOT upgrade to Joomla 1.5.16/1.5.17
Our friends at Joomlatools are advising against updating Joomla to the latest version, 1.5.17, and remain at 1.5.15 (1.5.16 was released in between, but was quickly sperseded by 1.5.17 due to another problem). Version 1.5.16 introduced a mechanism that will disable a plugin automatically when it runs into an error condition. Instead of throwing an [...]
WordPress Blog: WordPress 3.0 Beta 2
WordPress 3.0 is nearing completion, being marked with the release of the second beta. Go to the original article »
WordPress Quick Flickr Widget with cURL
Of course, you put a site live, and you run into trouble. Turns out the widget I chose for displaying my Flickr photostream uses the file_get_contents() PHP function to fetch the contents of the Flickr feed. Whether this is at all possible is governed by the PHP setting allow_url_fopen, and my hosting provider has it [...]
