[Tutorial] Create a professional navigation bar in Photoshop
26 March 2009 – Category: Development
This tutorial with guide you through how to make a professional looking navigation bar for your site. This tutorials takes in to account that you have a reasonable knowledge of Photoshop.
The result will be like the following:
Create a simple image gallery in Drupal 6 using CCK and Views
18 March 2009 – Category: Development
This tutorial will guide you through how to create a simple gallery within Drupal 6 using CCK, Views and a few more custom modules. You can see an example of what the tutorial will create by visiting http://gallery.jamestombs.co.uk/
This tutorial was written with the following versions of Drupal and modules:
Drupal 6.10
CCK (Content Construction Kit) 6.x-2.1 [...]
Windows Vista x64 to Windows 7 Beta
13 January 2009 – Category: Windows
With the new Windows 7 beta out from Microsoft, I decided to try to upgrade an existing Windows Vista x64 which has been very stable and not had a problem, has a fair few applications installed and lots of documents. I wasn’t putting up much hope, but backed up all the Documents and proceeded to [...]
Built my first HTPC (Home Theatre Personal Computer)
26 October 2008 – Category: PCs
The idea of an HTPC is to have a PC that can fit in with your amplifier/receiver underneath your TV which will act as a DVD player but with more features.
Hardware wise it is identical to a normal PC with CPU, RAM, motherboard etc etc but generally put in to more stylish cases specially built [...]
[FPSS] Front Page Slideshow for Drupal Update
24 October 2008 – Category: Development
I have updated my Front Page Slideshow for Drupal module with some new features and some fixes.
New Features:
Change language text within DrupalWithin the admin screen of FPSS you can now add the language text for the slideshow within Drupal which is stored in variables. By default the module has the English text in. [...]
Ford Mondeo 2007+ Leaking Boot problem fixed
19 October 2008 – Category: Cars
The ongoing problem of leaking boots on the MK4 Ford Mondeo has been successfully fixed by replacing the rear windscreen with the new style rear windscreen which has a rubber catchment around the edge which puts all the water that is held by the boot in to the area at the very top of the [...]
Frontpage Slideshow for Drupal
16 October 2008 – Category: Other
I have begun coding a module to allow the Frontpage Slideshow to be displayed within a block or a panel.
Frontpage slideshow is a script by Joomlaworks.
The module requires that the script is purchased from Joomlaworks as it contains important files for it to work.
The module which is currently in development can be found at http://code.google.com/p/fpss-drupal/.
The [...]
Google Chrome annoyances
9 October 2008 – Category: Other
It has been over a month now since Google released Chrome to the world and quite a few annoyances have appeared over that time.
Closing multiple tabs
The huge flaw that is extremely irritating is no warning of closing multiple tabs.
If you have 10 tabs open and accidentally close the main window at the top right rather [...]
[PHP] Introduction
24 September 2008 – Category: Development
Syntax
When writing PHP code it is best to use the following opening and closing statements:
<?php
?>
On some websites and scripts you may see it written like this:
<?
?>
This is not good practice as not all servers will be set up to allow this shorthand tag.
File extension
Files with PHP in should generally have the file extension .php but [...]
[Drupal] Installation
22 September 2008 – Category: Development
You will need to have set up an IIS or Apache webserver with PHP 5.2 or greater and a Mysql/PostgreSQL database before you can work on Drupal. For more requirements see [Drupal] Overview.
If you do not have a webserver yet but wish to set up your personal computer as a testing environment, please read through [...]
[Drupal] Overview
22 September 2008 – Category: Development
What is Drupal?
Drupal is an open source CMF (Content Management Framework) created by Dries Buytaert.
What is the difference between a CMS and a CMF?
Not a lot but Drupal is refered to as a CMF due to is configurability and customisation that you are able to do through it’s excellent back end and through the use of [...]
Premier4509 show off their new kits
22 September 2008 – Category: Cars
Premier4509 has released images of 4 new body kits.
The first being for the Aston Martin V8 Vantage.
Next we have the Bentley Continental GT.
They have also released images of both the Lamborghini Gallardo and the Lamborghini Murcielago.
Source: Seriouswheels
[MySQL] Using MySQL to analyze web usage from Windows ISA logs
22 September 2008 – Category: Development
This tutorial will teach you how to import a tab delimited file in to a MySQL database. I built a program to do this for Windows ISA Server logs which contained over 500,000 lines which was way too many for Microsoft Excel to handle and too much for notepad to handle properly. What MySQL functions [...]
Good ‘ol Worms
17 September 2008 – Category: Gaming
With all the new 3D games coming out that aren’t filling that spot of boredom I decided to get out the dusty copy or Worms Armageddon. Surprisingly supporting a resolution up to 1920 x 1200 with no problems too.
Why do all the old games seem to be more fun years and years on when the [...]
Ford Mondeo MK4 (2007 – onwards) leaking boot problem
11 August 2008 – Category: Cars
There is a problem on all Mondeo’s from 2007 until early 2008 I believe which is after heavy rain when you open the boot, you get wet as does everything in the boot.
There is a fix for this and is on all current Mondeo’s been made. The fix is a rubber seal going all the [...]
