Commonplaces startet eine Serie über Drupal Theming

Welcome to the first in what we hope will be a ongoing series of blogs that discuss the more technical side of things. Today I’d like to talk about how we theme template calls in Drupal 6, and how much it has changed from the way we did it in Drupal 5.

• Google Web Elements
  Google Web Elements allow you to easily add your favorite Google products onto your own website.
• MVC Generator for Joomla!
  This small and FREE tool generates your basic structure directory and files to start a new Joomla! component based on MVC architecture. You must enter the name and a small description of your project, then choose the elements that you need to create your personal component and click on Generate package to export your package in zip installer format. Now, Your package is ready to install ! You just have to code your component.
• Joomla Component Creator
  Joomla Component Creator is a free utility that automatically generates all the files and folders necessary to start building a custom component for the Joomla 1.5 content management system using the MVC architecture. It will save you hours of work!
• WordPress › NextGEN Gallery
  NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option. Before I start writing the plugin I study all photo and picture plugins for WordPress, I figure out that some of them are really good and well designed, but I missed a simple and easy administration back end to handle multiple photos, galleries and albums.
• Remind | Roaring Penguin
  Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program. It includes the following features: * A sophisticated scripting language and intelligent handling of exceptions and holidays. * Plain-text, PostScript and HTML output. * Timed reminders and pop-up alarms. * A friendly graphical front-end for people who don’t want to learn the scripting language. * Facilities for both the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars. * Support for 12 different languages

Wer in der Nähe wohnt: Demonstration am 6. Juni in Mainz gegen Überwachung, Vorratsdatenspeicherung und Zensur! .

Nach vielen kleinen erfolgreichen Aktionen findet nun in Rheinland-Pfalz erstmals auch eine große Demo für Datenschutz und Bürgerrechte statt. Den Überwachungsparteien soll klar gemacht werden, dass ihre destruktive Politik nirgends geduldet wird.

Sehr cooles Video von der Google Wave Developer Preview.

Langsam wird es ja mal Zeit Joomla 1.0.x Seiten nach Joomla 1.5 zu migrieren. Und da ich keinen Legacy Code haben will ist es doch etwas aufwendiger. Hier einige Ressourcen zum Thema.

Bei The Art of Joomla gibt es zwei dazu zwei Artikel.

Walter Cedric hat einige Tips und hier gibt es noch ein wenig mehr.

Im Joomla Forum gab es dann noch einen hilfreichen Tip für SQL Query die bei der Installation laufen sollen:

The trick is that the installation files MUST be in the “admin”-subpackage of the component package. Furthermore the sql files MUST be included in the files-section in the com_component_name.xml file

Ach ja und in der Joomla Dokumentation ga es noch Adapting Joomla 1.0 extensions to Joomla 1.5

Spannende Ankündigung im Typekit Blog:

We’ve been working with foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license. We’ve built a technology platform that lets us to host both free and commercial fonts in a way that is incredibly fast, smoothes out differences in how browsers handle type, and offers the level of protection that type designers need without resorting to annoying and ineffective DRM.

As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’ll be able to use real fonts. This really is going to change web design.

Ich bin gespannt und habe einen neuen Feed im Reader.