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Blogging with Drupal 6 - Part 2

In the first post of this series I covered migrating and backing up content in Drupal 6. Today it will be Drupal 6 modules.

Book Reviews for Feb 2010 - Part 2

It was only 15 days ago I was bemoaning my meagre collection of books to review, and here I am with six more! Sleepless nights FTW!

Blogging with Drupal 6 - Part 1

As you might infer from my tweets, I have a love-hate relationship with Drupal. I want to document here what I gathered in my quest to move my blog to Drupal 6, to spare you some of the back path-breaking work.

I hope to cover what I learnt about Drupal 6 migration, modules, and design in 3 posts. I assume you have a blog running Drupal 5 and you know the meaning of a Web Server or a Database.

Book Reviews for Feb 2010

This month has not been very good for reading. I hope to correct that next month! Here are my reviews:

Mortality of Morality

Morality, as Wikipedia says, is “a set of beliefs distinguishing between right and wrong behaviors”. There is a perception among many people that moral codes are permanent, that, what now is morally right will remain so eternally.

My assertion (which Wikipedia calls Moral Skepticism) is that morality meanders with time. Paul Graham covers some aspects of it in his essay about What You Can’t Say.

The Final Coming of SVG

I started drafting this post about a month ago, giddy with the news about Microsoft joining SVG Working Group and all the possibilities SVG portended. So, I started dreaming of creating a demo of how SVG could be used by web developers now, as background images with fall-back support, webfonts, and what not. Why, you ask? Think about all these that you can do with SVG using CSS:

What Web Designers need to know about EPUB

Steve Jobs ate his hat when he announced the iBook application for the tablet, but the iBook portends a bright future for web designers too. Wait, what? Books and web designers, how are they even related? One word: EPUB.

Book Reviews for Jan 2010 – Part 2

I spent a lot of time this month trying to get through Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821, but I just cannot read academic books.

Theme nodes with closed comments in Drupal 6

I use Comment Closer to close comments on old posts to reduce spam on my blog. I wanted visitors to know immediately if a post was no longer accepting comments, and give them alternative means of contacting me about the post. You can see it in action in these two old posts: post with comments, post with no comment. Here is how I did this in Drupal 6: