Its great to hear that f PHP 5.4 has been released. 

PHP 5.4.0 Release Announcement

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.0. This release is a major leap forward in the 5.x series, and includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

The key features of PHP 5.4.0 include:Read more

This tutorial shows a simple first steps of setting up a Druapl 7x module, if you have ever created Druapl 6x modules this is a useful start to show the differences in creating the files.Read more

This general process for an upgrading can be used for security updates to Drupal core, upgrading contributed or customer modules, or migrating theming and other changes from a development or test environment to a production environment.Read more

Do you need to create a simple pop up window that is centred for your site? Here is some simple JavaScript that you can in bed in your site that uses function popUp(URL) and window.open.Read more

Microsoft has said this week it will begin auto-updating Internet Explorer (IE) to the latest versions of the browser, a situation that will vary somewhat according to which Windows version they're using. This is similar to how the Chrome browser works, though Microsoft is of course also providing workarounds should they wish to remain on their current IE version.Read more

I was asked today what an RSS feed is? I take for granted using RSS on my phone and computers and use a lot of site feeds for my favourite subjects to give me instant information no matter where I am. This got me thinking that there is a lot of non technical people out there who dont really use RSS feeds and do not know what the benefits of using RSS feeds can bring.Read more

If you getting errors like the one below then you will likely need to find the source of the issue and then use the SQL queries to remove it.

Cron Failed Attempting to re-run cron while it is already running. Read more

I had been thinking about making this post for a while now and with the news in the head lines today about Adobe stopping support for Flash on mobile devices, I think that its all the more relevant I make this post.

"Steve Jobs wins! Flash being phased out from mobile devices"Read more

At last the long awaited release of Ice Cream sandwich the latest update for Android and successor to : 'Gingerbread' version 2.4, and 'Honeycomb' version 3.0. Gingerbread has been released today.

I have yet to watch the YouTube video so unsure of the details yet, but news from feeds are coming in fast.

Google chef Andy Rubin has wrote in a blog post..Read more

I thought it would be useful for me to put this down for others and my self to use as reference. The point of this is to create a jump menu to pick a taxonomy term from a drop down list to jump to the category. This can be used in a number of ways but for the purpose of this we are jumping to the taxonomy url. Read more

That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
– Business Week 1998

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To override the search form in Drupal 6 you need insert the code below and edit the PHP Template file in your theme.

You will need to change the YOUR_SITE_NAME for the preprocess and the image file path.

function YOUR_SITE_NAME_preprocess_search_block_form(&$vars, $hook) {
// Modify elements of the search form
unset($vars['form']['search_block_form']['#title']);Read more

The parts that come together to create a low key image are a black back ground and dark clothing, although I personally find that dressing my subjects in white or black has great impact.

There are three type keys High Key, Middle Key and Low Key.

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I did this in a current site today and thought it was worth jotting down. Its a really good start point in learning Php as it can be displayed using one line of code below.

This will only work on pages if your file is PHP is enabled .php, you can change a HTML page to have a .php extension

 <? print(Date("l F d, Y")); ?> 

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Wow this is embarrassing for facebook the company said it had taken on an a PR agency Burson-Marsteller to try to place negative stories about Google.Read more

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Well finally internet explorer 9 has arrived into release candidate

Like Firefox the new release candidate adds a new Tracking Protection feature and an accompanying Microsoft system which aims to give users the capability of blocking snooping on browsing habits via the use of tracking codes.Read more

In the same way your phone is associated with a unique number, your computer is assigned a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address when you connect to the Internet. The current protocol, IPv4, allows for approximately 4 billion unique addresses—and that number is about to run out.Read more

A frequently asked question is how to make a scroll bar for displaying content on a box with CSS. Try adding the code below to your style sheet.

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This is great story, I am not sure if the hunter feels like it is after not only being humiliated by a fox but also in massive pain after a fox managed to shoot him with his own gun.

The stricken animal somehow pulled the trigger of the man’s shotgun with its paw, hitting him in the leg.Read more

With the release today of Drupal 7 it has given me time to reflect on how far things have come and changed, I have been lucky to be part of the Drupal Community for many years now since Drupal 4. So much has changed with in Drupal it self complex processes have become easier to create for clients, which in times past have meant a lot of development to get your desired results.Read more

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Below is a Php snippet for displaying the contents of a CCK image field as a DIV background in a Drupal node.tpl.php file:Read more

My colleague brought me back from china a chicken foot to munch on for lunch, I now feel ill.

A lot of people ask me how to display a user name in a page or a block in Drupal. Its pretty handy and I am adding it here for my own reference as well as yours.

Simply enable the PHP filter on your body field you will need to do this by going to your modules page and enabling the PHP filter under core, this as it says allows embedded PHP code/snippets to be evaluated.Read more

Happy Halloween!

Here is a something really scary for you, the sort of thing that can give anyone nightmares haha. Impressive that they managed to get the dogs to stay still while they set this image up.

 My daughter Tilly will be bouncing off the walls after eating chocolate later i am sure. Well I hope you have fun tonight.

Most likely a fake video, but I love it anyway but its genius with its insanely awesome martial arts style.Read more

I haven't had much time to update my Blog recently. It's not that I dont necessarily have anything interesting to say, I just haven't had much time to put my thoughts down.

I am going to set some time aside to revamp my site I have some ideas I want to try out for some other sites I am working on

Until then, increase the peas..

Well i am stuck on the motorway passing the time using my G1 to make posts like this to moan about how much I hate road works. it seemed to have come out of no where as I travel this road everyday with out issue.

What really gets my goat though is the people who skip along the outside and push in at the front which means the rest of us have to wait even longer to get through.Read more