2009-05-24: UPDATE: now ported to D6
Having recently discovered the
Google Gadgets API, and being
on vacation this week proved too much of a temptation: I
had to build one using Drupal. Here is a way to do it,
as a module creating a Google Gadget to directly
search http://api.drupal.com/ from the
iGoogle home page.
User preferences allow searching the various versions of the API
and default to Drupal 5.
After almost six months without abuse following the installation of the captcha module, a spammer found its way through it, to promote a ringtones site.
Not that it did him/her much good, since comments are premoderated anyway, but still...
Sheer luck, of astute pattern matching and module workaround ? Oh well, it's still six months of peace gained. Well worth the almost nonexistent hassle, it seems.
"Immeubles en fête" is a yearly block party held everywhere in France.
Come and hear us at the Villebon event, on 2007-05-29 19:00 to 22:00 !
It's 2007, people ! Rejecting Opera for its lack of standards compliance and advocating MSIE and Netscape Navigator instead is just ... well, you know what.
Can't but wonder whether they heard about the Acid test, or about that small, relatively unknown browser named Firefox.
The "heavy" modules OSInet contributes to Drupal (G2, Helpdesk, Zeitgeist) have now been placed under the new release system.
Branches and releases have been created where applicable:
With OSInet having a large part of its business with suppliers and customers within the EU at large, I often find myself having to check the validity of the VAT information for third parties, and the EU VIES database comes in handy.
However,
although I had been discussing remote access
using XML-RPC or SOAP as early at 2004 with the database
administrators, the UI had remained web 1.0-only until quite
recently (apparently march 2007), when an
AXIS
SOAP service went online, just as I had suggested three years
ago. So I figured I really couldn't let the occasion pass, and did a
PHP-GTK client to VIES, which happens to be my first production
SOAP application in PHP-GTK, previous ones having always been
done in Pascal using Delphi or Kylix.
Let's see how this can be done... (code updated 2010-09-21)
For some reason, I had never bothered to pursue the relationship between string gauge and actual string diameter. However, when I sorted my stash of old strings after putting brand new Elixir medium strings in order to sound best at next week's concert, I found several strings for which I didn't know the gauge, meaning they would be next to useless in case of an emergency (which is typically the only situation under which I'd put on a used string). And I only had a metric vernier caliper available...
The block party is over, and the concert
went reasonably well: rain on monday, rain on wednesday, and
nice weather on tuesday, just when we played !