I drank the REST Kool-Aid over a year ago and since then, I’ve been using the RESTful approach to building applications in Ruby on Rails. But I also have a
Category: WEB
Displaying High Resolution Images on the Web with Zoomifyer.Displaying High Resolution Images on the Web with Zoomifyer.
I recently wrote an article, due to be published in this month's Information Technologies and Libraries (ITAL) journal, about a project I started a few years ago called Zoomify Image.
Headless Drupal Revisited: Programmatic Manipulation of CCK Defined NodesHeadless Drupal Revisited: Programmatic Manipulation of CCK Defined Nodes
In my previous Headless Drupal post, I proposed ways to work with Drupal content programmatically, particularly for bulk tasks like updating many nodes. But, in that post, I conveniently only
Adding Custom Renderers To HTML_QuickerFormAdding Custom Renderers To HTML_QuickerForm
In a previous post, I talked about how to get the most out of the HTML_QuickForm PEAR library. I then wrote an improved version for ONLamp. A reader there asked
ZoomifyImage 1.3 ReleasedZoomifyImage 1.3 Released
I have released ZoomifyImage 1.3, which fixes a significant bug and adds two new contributions. A bug was discovered by Donald Ball that can lead to this exception: Traceback (most
Drupal Developer’s OrientationDrupal Developer’s Orientation
I am starting development of a significant new Web site implemented in Drupal, and have as my team five talented, but relatively inexperienced, developers with little existing knowledge of Drupal.
Toward Less MousingToward Less Mousing
my motivation I read with interest the blog post Going commando – put down the mouse and the comments people made, which introduced a few new keyboard shortcuts I was
A Bare Bones Approach to Displaying Remote iCalendar Data in ZopeA Bare Bones Approach to Displaying Remote iCalendar Data in Zope
This is an approach I took to download iCalendar data from a remote site, then process and display it within Zope with minimum dependencies. I have tried to document not
EXPLORING TERNARY ASSOCIATIONS IN RUBY ON RAILSEXPLORING TERNARY ASSOCIATIONS IN RUBY ON RAILS
Consider the following problem domain. We have users, projects as well as roles and rights. Often, users are assigned roles and roles are assigned rights in straightforward binary associations: [rights]
A Possible Approach to Importing Static Content Into DrupalA Possible Approach to Importing Static Content Into Drupal
Like any good CMS, Drupal is great at building new sites and maintaining existing ones, but when it comes to the largely mind numbing task of shoving in lots of