Logs of Everything

First photography blog....

I got a new toy on 2009 xmas... Here are couple shots I took with it...
I'm a newb in photography... Hence I need contructive critiques and advice.. 

My Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/heyqule

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Drupal - DHTML Menu/View/Cache bug...

Grrrr.. SCS's the menu inconsistence is caused by the internal cache... and just realized my site has this problem too lol

The problem:
When the visitors visit a cached page which built by VIEW module(view page),  DHTML menu uses the menu settings from cache instead of the settings from visitor's cookie.  The result is that the menu is not consistent when the visitors go to a view page.

Bug Report: http://drupal.org/node/601178

Temporary solution:
Disable page cache... the drawback is slower load time.

2009 Logo Change

The combination of 囧,  甲骨文的 (Tooth, ancient chinese) and GREEN, one of most used marketing term of the year.

Epic Time Lapse of Nature

A seven minutes epic time lapse video of nature made by Mockmoon2000 from Japan.

 

Classical + Modern = Unstoppable

E.S. Posthumus is a band of two brothers that combines classical and modern instructments into unique unstoppable tracks.



and well... youtube sucks at audio...

GTFO Spammers!

Installed Drupal's official spam fighter, Mollom... Let see how efficient it is...

FSOSS Presentation Proposal module - Testers Wanted

It has been a while since I posted my last FSOSS blog...  I finally started to work on FSOSS site lol... First thing I did is to get the new proposal form up...

The old form was ported from FSOSS 2007 site.  It's not Drupal site.  The form only provided couple basic function for registration.
Here is how it works: 
- Presenter submitted the form
- The form sent a notification email to the FSOSS staffs
- FSOSS staff had to create accounts and presentation/workshop node based on the data of the email... (This step is duplicated work... and waste of time... )

Therefore... A new form is born... I have rewritten the proposal submission form using Drupal's Form API in the past few days.... The last step is replaced by clicking checkboxes and buttons... lol
In the new form:
- Presenter submits the form

FSOSS 2009 website - planning

WOW.... Time flies...

Couple days ago..  Chris Tyler dropped me an email... it was about setting up FSOSS 2009 website... I was like... it's time for it already?!...

Anyway... fsoss.ca now redirects to FSOSS 2009 website...  there are not much contents...  the theme is same as previous...

First thing is to dupe whatever we have from 2008... then add the following new function...

Backend proposal registration automation

- The presentation and its speakers will register to the website upon submission.  An email will send to notify admins about the proposal.
- The presentation and speakers will wait for approval before showing up on the site.

Bug 253231 - Validators need to ignore .* resources by default

I picked up Bug 253231 on Monday evening.   This bug is about validator resource handling.  It suggests that the validator should skip validation on .* resources(files, folders) by default.  Those who familiar with standard posix OS, *nix for example, probaby know what .* files are...   .* resources are hidden from viewing by default.   They are hidden in eclipse project explorer.  So there is no point to validate hidden files because they are not meant to be view/edit by a person.

The target milestone is 3.1.  Um... someone might be working on it.  I went to check the bug activity.  It got prosponed from 3.0.4 to 3.1.   Also, I came up a "solution" of this bug by the time i finished reading the bug report.  So I thought I'll give it a shot.

Validation only works with files in workspace

Ar... almost a month have passed since my last bug post...

Gary Karasiuk, the assgined developer of bug 2108101, replied to my newsgroup thread.  He confirmed that the validator only works with resources in workspace.   The point of this bug is to lift this restriction.

This feature will require massive changes as the validator was designed to work only with workspaces.   Also most of classes are tied to project as I mentioned before.  

I realized that I would not be able to complete this bug within short amount of time.  So I decided to pick up another validator bug on last Sunday.

I'll take about my new bug in next post........ soon....