Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
Thingy Ma Jig is the blog of Nicholas Thompson and contains any useful tips, sites and general blog-stuff which are considered interesting or handy!
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5th August 2006

Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess

 
Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
I recently stumbled across a handy tutorial on configuring a Drupal dictionary in Vim for autocomplete. I also remembered helping a friend out with a similar problem, Drupal syntax highlighting for Nano....
Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
I just updated this server to PHP 5.3...
Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
I like little wins. I was just looking through the CSS file for this site and noticed that - for some reason - I'd used 0px instead of 0 a LOT of times. ...
Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
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Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
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Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
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Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
Back in November last year, I wrote a script which handled backing up a drupal database. There were quite a few comments and I've taken some on board and developed the script on a little further to be more "generic"...
Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
This morning I updated a site to the latest release of Drupal 5.16. Nothing special there at all. I've done that many times as has (hopefully) mabye other drupal devs… However, I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to SVN. Didn't I mention this drupal site was in an SVN repository? ...
Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
My friend over at Kasha Music has just released a REALLY nice free wallpaper. It's based on a starfield background with Kasha's face screened over the top. It's really effective!
Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
The first test is a valid email address test. The second test is if an account exists for that email address. The third is if the username, generated by the "user" part of the email address, exists. If there are any issues, the "error" is logged into and array and printed at the end...
Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
I am a bit of a "neat geek" when it comes to coding. Things should be indented neatly and should have well laid out comments! Why? Well… It's easy to do and in 6 months time when you look at your code you will appreciate it! ...
Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
I just needed to find the largest files in a folder (in an attempt to find out why it was so bloody huge!) and have ended up with the following handy combination of commands… find /path/to/folder -size +1M -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -nr read more
Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
The new Dr Who appears to be Matt Smith! Whoa! He is so young! Almost depressingly, he is only 11 days younger than ME. Yes… The new Dr Who is younger than me.read more
Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
As many readers might know, I use Lighttpd a lot. I really like it for many reasons...
Thingy Ma Jig: A Blog of Drupal, Technology and General Bloginess
After about 4 days of using OpenSUSE 11.0, I'm not overly impressed with it in comparison to RedHat Enterprise 3/4/5, CentOS 5, Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.x (other distro's I've used). OpenSUSE has some annoying habits and default/unusual configurations… read more