Drupal

Generate technorati tag with Interwiki

One reason that I like Post2Blog is the way of link creation, especially tag link, e.g. Technorati and Wikipedia. This functionality is not available in Firefox yet or Drupal yet. So I have to find a good replacement and finally I found Interwiki module. Anyway, this module doesn't support Technorati tag in nature but there is a patch to make it support rel attribute. However, that patch can't be applied against latest code in CVS due to new form api in Drupal 4.7 and lots more (Interwiki is a bit old). Luckily, everything is opensource so I patched them manually. My patch is posted here.

Let's markdown

If you have read my blog for a half year, you might notice that the update rate has slowed down for a month. The main reason is I switched to Ubuntu and I don't have [Post2Blog][1]. Post2Blog is very powerful and it helped me to blog as fast as I expect. In Ubuntu, I have [Performancing for Firefox][2] which is a cool stuff but not comparable to Post2Blog in any criteria. Today, I have just decided to

Fight back SPAM

If you have read my blog for a while you will notice some comment spam since last week. That was not good at all and I've never happy to see them. Now, it's time to fight back! Fortunately, Drupal has a good module for this special task namely spam. And now, it is spam v2. Briefly, spam v2 is very easy to install on Drupal 4.7.2 by just downloading, extracting, enabling and configuring. How good is it? Shortly, you may think that spam v2 is a kind of SpamAssassin for Drupal because it has Bayesian and supports auto-learning. If you are not familiar with SA, the good news is that you don't need to know anything just let spam v2 do the rest. The detected spams may be reviewed later by you.

New ipdb.mysql

It seems I forgot about ipdb.mysql during last upgrade so I got a comment about my mistake. To fix this problem, I will upload as an attach file with this post so you can get it anytime you want. I don't commit it to the CVS because of its size. It might take your updating into big trouble for diffing 5MB text file.

Is this possible?

You know sugree, Over the last few months I've learned some very interesting stuff from your reading the postings on your site, not just about Drupal. I thank you for that. Yesterday, I read this post http://drupal.org/node/73389 over at Drupal and thought it's an interesting idea. Since nobody at Drupal seems to know the answer to this one, I'd thought I'd ask here since you always have the answers! Is it actually possible to take blocks from one Drupal site and post them on another non-drupal site.

XUL-based Drupal Manager: Progress Update

Since I am a menter in , I would like to update what I and my student was done last month. My student is working hard on developing XUL-based Drupal Manager project. That's a short description. For a long one, he is developing a next generation of graphics user interface based on XML technology, aka XUL, proposed by Mozilla. XUL is a candidate for Web 2.0, another one is AJAX. AJAX seems to be better because it runs on most browsers while XUL can only run on Mozilla-based browsers. However, in other point of view, there is a possibility to run XUL on any XUL engine. Some day, XUL engine might be integrated into OS like Java or .Net.