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Release Notes: GiftedMotion (1.19)

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Name: 
GiftedMotion
Version: 
1.19
  • Shrunk downloadsize by removing the sourcecode, buildscript and HISTORY file from the JAR archive. These items are now exclusively available from the source code repository.
  • Added borders to menu- and status bar to make them visually stand out a bit better.
  • Added Help|FAQ menuitem.
  • Minor modifications to the German translation.

Setting up a public repository with git

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Ok, I have been struggling with version-control systems lately. More precisely with switching from svn to git. Subversion really was a pain in the butt. I spent more time on fixing my repositories and worrying about not introducing inconsistencies again, than on actual software development. Added to the horrible workflow of branching and merging, as well as the security nightmare of granting repository access to others, svn just turned out to be totally unsuited for my needs.

The one thing, I really liked about subversion, though, was it's documentation.

Distilling blog posts into books and preventing premature leaks while drafting

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When blogging, you usually publish loose thoughts. Generally, ideas, that just came to mind and seemed interesting enough to write about at that time. Blogging is great in the sense, that you do not need to worry a lot about structuring your content.

Drupal and the problem of protecting uploaded files

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Let's start this with a use case. Suppose you have a client, owning an insurance company, consisting of several more or less independent departments. Let's say car insurance, life insurance, health insurance and so on. Now, that client needs a website for his intranet, so employees can efficiently communicate with each other. One important aspect of office communication is collaboration in teams. For example, the life insurance team should be able to work out a plan for a new life insurance policy without the health insurance people snooping around in their work.

Fixing Drupal's broken book navigation after loosing all books

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There seems to be an obscure bug somewhere either in Drupal itself or in one of the modules. I haven't been able to pinpoint it's location yet, but it struck me twice already and damage repair can be utmost time consuming, especially if you do not know what you are looking for. So I guess, I'll write a how-to for it.

Extremely annoyed by organic groups

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Dear internet, I need to vent my anger about Drupal's organic group Module. It all started relatively harmless by noticing, that I am dealing with group owners of low discipline and little technical understanding. You know, that kind of people, who is just not aware of there being a need to do something, if the thing in question does not draw attention to itself by any other means, but showing a big red box on top of the screen, stating: "Take care of me! Yes, it is urgent and yes, you have to click here..."

Adding automatic MD5 or SHA1 checksum calculations to file downloads with Drupal

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Somehow, trivial problems tend to be the hardest/most time consuming ones to solve, it seems. I'm currently working on a small community website with a focus on collaboration. Among other things, this project calls for a file section, where users can exchange files. So far, thats easy. Just add a new content type, that allows for a single file to be attached and hook it up with taxonomy for navigation. It could have ended there, but I decided to go for gold...

Working on a HOWTO / guide for using Drupal to create a blog

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Ok, according to my webserver statistics, a lot of people come to my website, looking for instructions on how to use Drupal for blogging, so I decided to start writing a howto on that topic. I'm far from finished yet, but following the "publish early, publish often" mantra, it's probably enough to offer some value already.

Book Review: Drupal 6 Site Blueprints

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Drupal 6 Site Blueprints
Author Timi Ogunjobi
Publisher Packt Publishing / Birmingham
First published August 2009
Pages 272
ISBN 978-1-847199-04-1
List price €31.49 (Ordering / Product information)

Drupal is a flexible Content Management System. So flexible, that it could be considered to be the web 2.0 equivalent of a swiss army knife. Swiss army knifes however, as versatile as they might be, can sometimes be a bit confusing to the user. The purpose of the individual tools may occasionally not be clear and the vast numbers of different models available for sale can make it hard to choose the right version for the right job.

In Drupal 6 Site Blueprints, Timi Ogunjobi sets out to provide the reader with 12 hands on examples for how the "swiss army knife" Drupal can be put to a use.

Release Notes: GiftedMotion (1.18)

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Name: 
GiftedMotion
Version: 
1.18
- Menuitems now use CTRL instead of ALT focus
- Made the toolbar detachable and changed it's default location to be below
  the menubar.
- detached the status field from the toolbar and made it a statusbar.
- Window title String (version) is now managed via build.xml
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