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Finding Distant Relatives Over The Internet

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The title should really read: "Distant relatives finding you via the internet" ...Running a web site is an experience that is full of surprises.One pleasant surprise is when someone reads your web site and discovers that they are a relative of you, and gets in touch with you for details.About a year ago, I had someone contact me after reading the paternal side of my ancestry. He is living in the village my father is from. After some emails, we discovered that my paternal grandfather and his paternal grandfather are brothers.

How Many Sites On The Web Run Drupal?

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Drupal

In a comment on a previous post, Marco pointed out to a page on his site were he used Google searching to uncover Drupal sites on the web based on two criteria. In early November 2005, he found 54,700 Drupal sites based on this search. See his Drupal.org post on this. This same search today says that there are 60,700 sites.

Mistaken Identity: Interested in buying oil paintings from China?

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Technology in Society

I got this in my inbox yesterday:

Dear Sir, We know you from Internet. We are one of the strongest oil paintings supplier in China. Following is the wholesale price for the paintings from our website url deleted. 20 x 24 inches on canvas ... US$4.95 for each 24 x 36 inches on canvas ... US$7.95 for each 36 x 48 inches on canvas ... US$14.95 for each All the paintings are reproduced and handmade on canvas by our artists. And also the custom painting is acceptable. If you have interest,please contact me. I will reply you as soon as possible! We hope hear from you soon! Yours sincerely, Shirley

Security Report: Linux versus Windows

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Linux

A often repeated fallacy is that Windows is more prone to security vulnerabilities because it has the largest installed base among desktops and servers, both at home and in the corporate world. The fallacy says that if Linux and Apple had a similarly large installed base, they would also be found to be vulnerable.This claim seems to be widespread even among those who are technically savvy. The facts do contradict this claim. For example, Apache is the most widely used web server on the internet, with more web sites running it than all others combined. Apache is not found to be prone to attacks and security issues as much as Microsoft IIS for example.

Snow In The Desert: Dubai Snowdome

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In Dubai, UAE, the largest snowdome in the world has opened. Complete with an indoor ski slope, it has to stay at -2C while temperature outside exceeds +40C in summer. Its cost is 272 million US dollars.And here I am in Southern Ontario, where it is snowing outside as I type this, and wondering why would anyone want snow when they have warm weather?

What Functions Are Available In A Drupal PHPTemplate Theme?

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Drupal

Darrel O'Pry posted this gem on the Drupal Themes mailing list, and it deserves to be publicized.Paste this in your page.tpl.php below the <body> tag, to see what functions are available for you, the theme developer. <ul> <?php $functions = get_defined_functions(); foreach($functions['user'] as $function) : print "<li>$function</li>"; endforeach; ?> </ul> Similarly, one can use the get_defined_vars() and get_defined_constants() to see what variables are available.

How To Include Drupal Comments In Section Targeting

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Drupal

In a recent article, I stated that the latest adsense.module has integrated section targeting.Today, I explain how to modify your theme so that section targeting applies to comments as well.I am assuming that you will be using a phptemplate based theme.What you need is to modify the comment.tpl.php for your theme. This should look something like this: <div class="comment"> <?php if ($picture) : ?> <?php print $picture; ?> <?php endif; ?> <h3 class="title"><?php print $title; ?></h3> <?php if ($new != '') : ?> <span class="new"><?php print $new; ?></span> <?php endif; ?> <div class="submitted"><?php print $submitted; ?></div> <div class="content"><?php print $content; ?></div> <div class="links">» <?php print $links; ?></div></div> What you need to do is wrap the content part in the section tags, like so:

Translations of My Contributed Drupal Modules

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Drupal

I have never kept track of what languages my modules are translated to. However, last week, I got a language code that I had to look up, despite my above average familiarity with linguistics in general!

The language code was CA, which when used as a country code stands for Canada, but is also used for California. It turns out that as a language code, it stands for Catalan, a language that I am aware of, but not the language code. The language shares its name with the region of Catalonia in South Eastern Spain. The language is spoken or understood by some10 million people.

List Of Alternate Contributed Drupal Modules Repositories

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Drupal

Every Drupal developer and enthusiast knows where to go to get add-on/contributed Drupal modules (I mean from the project pages on Drupal.org). This is the most convenient place, since it is a one stop place that most developers use. What is not known is that there are other sites that I often run across that have collections of Drupal modules. For one reason or another the own does not have the time to apply for a CVS account, ...etc.I strongly recommend that anyone who wants to share modules use Drupal.org as the repository. The reasons are many, such as:

You get your module advertised to a far wider audience.
You get issue tracking from Drupal's project module.
You get version control via CVS (which may soon change to a better revision control system).
You get more people looking at your code, finding bugs, and fixing them by offering patches.
You get modules translated to languages you do not even speak.

So I urge anyone who is reading this to go and apply for a CVS account and start using the project module for issues.

Marco on Baheyeldin Web Site Drupal Theme

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Drupal

Marco from Australia writes on his blog :

This website is owned and managed by an active Drupal contributor. He was the author for the Adseense module for Drupal. His website contains a lot of information about Drupal and its configuration amongst other things. Adsense placement on the website is typical: The footer the skyscraper columns. In my opinion the ads "fit" the website very well.

He then links to the Drupal section on my site.

Finding Distant Relatives Over The Internet

How Many Sites On The Web Run Drupal?

Mistaken Identity: Interested in buying oil paintings from China?

Security Report: Linux versus Windows

Snow In The Desert: Dubai Snowdome

What Functions Are Available In A Drupal PHPTemplate Theme?

How To Include Drupal Comments In Section Targeting

Translations of My Contributed Drupal Modules

List Of Alternate Contributed Drupal Modules Repositories

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