mercredi 30 septembre 2009

So You Think You Can Tell Arial From Helvetica? Quiz

So You Think You Can Tell Arial From Helvetica? Quiz : An important quiz from David Friedman at Ironic Sans. I got Toyota wrong, so, shamefully, only scored a 19/20. Update: Consolation for my fellow got-them-all-except-Toyota-ers: It’s debatable whether Toyota’s logo counts as Helvetica. Look at  […]

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lundi 28 septembre 2009

Dotclear button bar for BUeditor

BUeditor is a configurable toolbar for textarea in Drupal. I did a quick tool bar in order to have the main Dotclear wiki syntax shortcuts available. This is usefull in conunction with the module Dotclear wiki syntax for Drupal. Dotclear BUeditor buttons

jeudi 24 septembre 2009

Using the Dotclear wiki syntax with Drupal

In a previous post, I presented a Drupal module I did to allow using the Dotclear wiki syntax in Drupal. I have recently updated this module. it main new feature is that when the wikitools module is installed, the Dotclear module will create links automatically for words writen with CamelCase. New  […]

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mardi 25 août 2009

Tech Support Cheat Sheet

Une révélation sur nos petits secrets... Tech Support Cheat Sheet : (En provenance de l'excellent xkcd.com.)  […]

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mardi 12 mai 2009

VNC for training, demos or conferences

You are giving a training (conference, demo) in a room with some computers and a LAN connection (Ethernet, WiFi ...). Unfortunately, the over head projector is not available (broken, stolen, whatever...). You can use a "poor man" solution. If you have a recent Mac, activate ARD[1] on the  […]

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lundi 27 avril 2009

Dotclear one minute install

I just discovered on abc Dotclear this video showing the one minute Dotclear installation

mercredi 22 avril 2009

MarsEdit and Drupal

There is a small missing bit in the documentation. When autoconfiguration is done in MarsEdit, there is an error message. You just need to go to the Edit settings option for the blog in MarsEdit and in the field Blog ID, replace the "1" by "blog" or the machine-name of the  […]

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samedi 18 avril 2009

Journey though Drupal modules

Looking through the list of Drupal modules is a constant discovery ! There are some obvious candidates to any installation. Then there are some small jewells buried down the list like logintoboggan, or some combination who need some discovery like Path (in core) + Pathauto + Global Redirect + Token.  […]

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mardi 7 avril 2009

Using the Dotclear wiki syntax with Drupal

MàJ 20090924 : there is a new version The Dotclear wiki syntax is simple and allow easy access to the most used styles in a publishing system. It has simple tags for titles, emphasis, bulleted and numbered lists and foot notes. I already did a quick hack to allow to Use the Dotclear wiki syntax in  […]

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dimanche 26 octobre 2008

A style sheet to show Microformats

This posts was originally published on SansFiltre Microformats are a simple way to structure informations in (X)(HT)ML. This CSS allow to show the Microformats bits contained in a page. View a page. Design principles Simplicity: Use only a CSS, no image, nothing else Portability Be unobtrusive but  […]

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