I found an interesting question regarding Drupal at Codenone. One would like to list the latest 11-20 nodes in a block. He tried to use Views module with no luck. I think so. Listing the latest nodes in a block using Views is very easy but I don't see any clue to get the next 10 nodes. Anyway, it is possible to write a snippet code to fulfill this requirement.

I found a good question at Codenone regarding author's full name in Drupal. This is a good question because it clearly shows the power of Drupal. If you notice, all contents in Drupal will show their authors somewhere in the page. An author is identified by his/her username. And there is no full name stored in the database by default. Other CMSs usually store user's full name in its database so you might think Drupal is worse. In fact, you are allowed to add additional metadata using profile module which is included in the core modules. So showing author's full name in each node is very easy.

has begun for a while. One of the most interesting accepted projects in Drupal is Extend Case Tracker Module since I have currently used Case Tracker Module extensively. The student is approaching to the goal by configuring a demonstration site and also a blog to keep updating latest status for all of us and early adopters.

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I have just assigned to find a solution for building an academic conference site as quick as possible. I used to be authors and also reviewer assistant but I have never been an organizer. This is my first time in this area. Anyway, it seems there are many softwares available right now. Below are just a list I found in Google.

1. BYU Paper Review System - This one is very old and maybe obsolete for so long. The most interesting thing I found is that it was written in C as external PHP module.
2. MyReview - It has just released the latest feature-rich version last month.

I don't have much time to find more but it seems MyReview is one of the most popular player. Anyway, my favorite CMS is Drupal and most of our sites are Drupalized. It would be nice if we can build an academic conference site using Drupal. And I found Conference module for Drupal.

If you were unable to access this site since last weekend, please be patience. I have just moved howforge.com to the new server located at other ISP which offers higher international bandwidth because most visitors are outside Thailand. In fact, I don't like to move around too often since it might take long time for DNS to completely propagate to all ISPs around the world. That's why I post this topic. I would like to verify that my settings are correct and how long it takes to update.

MEncoder actually is able to decode MKV (Matroska). However, I encounter some strange problem regarding the conversion of MKV to AVI using 1 pass encoding. The error message looks like below.

Too many audio packets in the buffer: (4096 in 8255101 bytes).
Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?
For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option.

Unfortunately, my video is not AVI files. Anyway, there is a workaround for this problem.