My organization is trying to track incoming requests from outsiders and also insiders. The reason and only one reason is that me and my colleagues work so hard for nothing. Our main works are in the state of no progress for so long time. Actually, all works are late for two months already and they are not finished yet. The problem is my boss has seen we worked so hard but he have never known what we did and why all works are not finished on time.

That is the thing drove me to deploy a kind of issue ticket management system to track what we are doing all days all nights. There are so many softwares that may solve our problems. However, I chose Drupal and Case Tracker. It works almost perfect and we have used it for a week without problem. Actually, it does not meet our requirements yet. We also want to track performance of support teams. There are so many performance metrics. The first one is how long it take to solve each case. I decided to write a report using PHP input format in Page content type.

has been organized for 2 times since . This activity aims to promote open source concept to students by offering 4500 USD to them, 500 USD to open source projects and a T-shirt to each mentor. As one of mentor at Drupal in last year, it is my duty to promote Google Summer of Code 2007.

I developed IP to Country module for Drupal last year. The original purpose was to see who visited my site through Search Keywords module. Anyway, it is also possible to use ip2cc module for automatically display information based on geo location.

Pure-FTPd supports various authentication source. I have an application to offer a private storage to Drupal user. In particular, every users share the same data storage since they are all friends. The scenario is that I would like to limit number of concurrent connection for each user to prevent parallel fetching by FlashGet or its friends. So I gave an individual user and limited the concurrent connection instead.

Anyway, I don't want to have duplicated accounts for both Drupal and Pure-FTPd. It would be nice if the account is shared among the two system so users may change their password by themselves.

Last night I saw something weird at Codenone. Actually, it was just a blank page returned from Drupal. PHP was set maximum memory limit to 64MB. It should be sufficient for a small site like Codenone. I noticed that the blank page often occurred on pages with comments. Below are my investigations.

1. Blank page will occur only on some nodes with some amount of comments.
2. There was no logs in Drupal.
3. There was no logs in virtualhost level.

One of the most wonderful thing in Drupal 5 is Garland theme. It is very flexible and simple to modify. In addition, Garland theme is really usable in production site. However, the very first step to make it usable in production site is to change logo and favicon to match what you have. If you notice the header area, Garland allows us to set gradiant from top to bottom of that region. This feature is a good and a bad. It looks good but the question is how to produce the logo to match this gradiant.

As far as I know, transparent PNG is not supported in IE6 and earlier version. The transparent color will be displayed as white. As a result, transaprent PNG must not be used for production site that visitors may use IE to browse the site. In other words, we should produce a logo with the gradiant as its background. The next problem is how to make it align. Actually, Garland theme doesn't provide the template to produce the logo.

The secret is that changing logo in Garland theme is very simple and template is absolutely unnecessary.