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helm problem

ahmed — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:56:42 -0700

i have a problem in helm control panel . I can't add a new user and i can't add a new database, can anyone help me ???

Thx

New "Printer Friendly Page" Links

Daniel Read — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:18:00 -0700

I added a new Drupal module today that adds a new "printer friendly page" link to the end of each Digest post. To see the link, drill into the full post and scroll to the bottom of the text, before the comments start. Please let me know if you have any problems.

Dan

Re:Outsource black box voting to Saudi Arabia

Daniel Read — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:18:44 -0800

[quote="Guest"]Can anyone verify whether the U.S. govt has outsourced the contract to make our black box voting software/machines to Saudi Arabia?[/quote]

I have not heard that, but I would seriously doubt it. I don't think a lot of outsourcing of software development goes to Saudi Arabia. And based on the interview I recently did with a Saudi developer, it does not sound like the software industry there is quite at that level of maturity. And while the audacity of the current people in power in the U.S. seems to know no bounds, I would expect any politician to avoid such an idea as too controversial.

Dan

Outsource black box voting to Saudi Arabia

Guest — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:49:29 -0800

Can anyone verify whether the U.S. govt has outsourced the contract to make our black box voting software/machines to Saudi Arabia?

Trackback Spam

Daniel Read — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 19:57:39 -0800

These damn online poker bastards. I finally stopped them with the captcha on the comments form, and now they're adding spam through the trackbacks feature. Sorry to anyone who saw the online poker comments under a lot of the posts. I've deleted them all now. If you still see one, trying refreshing the page. I'm afraid this kills the trackbacks feature for now. Hopefully an enterprising Drupal php developer will come up with a way to plug this one. I sure as hell appreciate all the work those guys do.

Dan

Thanks

Grant Bowman — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:51:03 -0800

I'm glad it's useful. I'm working on adding weights now. Suggestions from you or others about specific features would help me prioritize what to work on next. They can be filed at the module page.

New Features

Daniel Read — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 15:14:00 -0800

Added an "email this page" feature today.

And check out the new "Browse archives" calendar in the left column of each page. If you miss a few days between visits to the Cooperative Digest, you can keep up with what's posted to the site each day by clicking on the calendar.

I also patched the comment module to do word-based truncation when making an automatic subject when the subject is blank. Thanks to Drupal developer arnab for posting this improvement.

Dan

Great Suggestion

Daniel Read — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:40:04 -0800

I added some hardware-related categories. Thanks for the suggestion. If you want to add them to any of your posts, you can edit your own posts. You can also multi-select categories with Ctrl and Shift. (What would that be on a Mac? :-)

Dan

Trackback and BBCode

Daniel Read — Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:24:13 -0800

I added a couple new features to the Cooperative Digest tonight:

BBCode: this allows you to use 'BBCode' tags in your posts. If you've ever used the PHPBB web forum, then you may already be familiar with these tags. Basically they're just an alternative to HTML that are supposed to be easier to type in. For example, I used a BBCode tag to to make [b]this text bold[/b].

Trackback: this is a cool blog-related feature that allows sites to inform each other when cross-site references are made. For example, if you read someone's blog post on this site or another site and paste its url in your post, then the Cooperative Digest will automatically check to see if that url has a Trackback link. If it does, then the software will 'ping' the Trackback link so that the blogger is informed that you've referenced his blog in your blog. Similarly, if someone else's blog has Trackback capabilities, if they refer to your blog our Trackback will be pinged.

Please let me know if anyone has any problems (or successes) with these new features.

Atom Feed

Daniel Read — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:25:40 -0800

Thanks to an Atom module that I found for Drupal, I added an Atom feed to the Cooperative Digest yesterday. Atom is an emerging standard in the same vein as RSS. This is the url for the Atom feed:

http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/atom/feed

Follow this link to learn more about Atom:

http://www.atomenabled.org/

Comments or suggestions welcome.

Thanks,
Dan

New Default Theme

Daniel Read — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 15:13:04 -0800

I changed the default theme today, as well as the color scheme on the developer.* Magazine site. The sites are now a little better matched in terms of colors and fonts. I don't know that I'll ever get them exactly matched, but this should be a lot better. Please let me know what you think.

Dan

Sessions, Cookies, Caching Now Working Properly

Daniel Read — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:58:37 -0800

Greetings, all. I finally tonight fixed a nasty problem I was having with the Drupal software's handling of session, cache, and cookie-related stuff. For some reason, some PHP settings in the .htaccess file were not being set properly.

There were three problems being caused by this:

If you used the Back and Foward buttons while working on a post, the browser might reset the form when you came back to it.
If you left the Preview page for a post, the page would expire, forcing you to refresh.
The Cooperative Digest software was logging people out too quickly and too often.

All of these problems should now be solved. If anyone is has any problems along these lines in the future, please let me know.

All the best,
Dan

P.S. For the record, this was not a Drupal problem as far as I can tell--just server configuration stuff. I'm pretty damn happy with Drupal so far.

Aerospace Software

Andy Tegethoff — Mon, 15 Nov 2004 07:53:48 -0800

I have a high interest in that sort of thing too.
In a dream world, that's the kind of code I'd like to write: where your code does more than push virtual paper for some spreadsheet chump.

I think NASA type applications are really where the "engineering"/ Steve McConnell part of "software engineering" comes into play. Those systems have like 0.0001% failure tolerance.

Aerospace Software

Daniel Read — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:14:05 -0800

I can't pretend to be an expert on this stuff, but I'm a member of the IEEE, so I've noticed that they have a society, conferences, and journals about this stuff. This is the home page for the IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society:

http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/aes/

Unfortunately, you pretty much have to be a member to get to the good stuff. I'm a member of the Computer Society, but not this society, so I can't really get to it either.

Dan

developer.* Blogs - forum topic - Comments

helm problem

New "Printer Friendly Page" Links

Re:Outsource black box voting to Saudi Arabia

Outsource black box voting to Saudi Arabia

Trackback Spam

Thanks

Blogrolls!

New Features

Great Suggestion

Trackback and BBCode

Atom Feed

New Default Theme

Sessions, Cookies, Caching Now Working Properly

Aerospace Software

Aerospace Software