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Garou is no longer

garym — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:11:05 -0500

Seems Garou is yet another cobweb, but just so you have something, here's the source code for a bookmarklet that I use daily to update my weblogs:

javascript:h='HOSTNAME';
u=document.location.href;
t=document.title;
void(C=prompt('Comments:',''));
s=C+'\n<blockquote><cite class="blog-source">'
  +window.getSelection()
  +'</cite>\n';
ps=escape('<i class="blog-source">[ ')
  +escape('<a href=%22'+u+'%22>')
  +escape(t)
  +escape('</a> ]%lt;/i>%lt;/blockquote>\n\n'); void(window.open("http://"+h+"/node/add/blog?edit[title]="
    +escape(t)
    +'&edit[body]='
    +escape(s)
    +ps,
    '_blank',
    'width=710,height=500,status=yes,
    resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes'
    ));

Just jam that all together on one line as the value of the link (and edit the hostname) and you're in.

mozex

TeledyN (trackback) — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:37:06 -0500

Frustratingly close to desktop bliss, but I've seen the future, and it's a spiffy cool total information awareness web of where my data is at all at once together.

And it has a name, and that name is Mozex.

And why is this so better

A pub blog: Excellent idea

garym — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 20:34:54 -0500

This idea of yours is maybe better than you think, providing it doesn't stray into privacy issues -- I've seen several pubs with online journals by the staff telling of news in and around their community; a pub is a community hub, so it's a natural for this sort of role online.

but be aware, someone has to actually do the work, and if you don't sustain the output, you can quickly get forgotten. Designate someone on staff as the host and give them license to ask participation, and engage your community too.

It can be cheap, and one that I often recomment is the free blogger.com just to get you started; easy to use, no awkard HTML to learn, you just enter your story and push the publish button.

If you do decide to roll out a Canadian pub blog, please do let me know!

odd PHP syntax example

garym — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 15:47:49 -0400

btw, just as a footnote, the use of the [? print ?] syntax is an artifact of the Drupal Textile support that wouldn't let me use proper entites for angle-brackets. Take my advice, avoid Textile; I'm deeply bound to it now, and it's a long-term pain in the backside.

Blog Software

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:20:08 -0500

I am new to the internet and I am surfing here and this is very interesting reading. I did a search in the search engines on "pub bar entertainment blog software" and I found your web blog and although "software" isnot the Blog Software I was looking for, it was very interesting reading.
I am researching blogs as I was interested in a blog for myself, that is if I can understand how to operate a blog. The different things discussed on this website found by searching for "pub bar entertainment blog" is very amusing and from seeing and understanding more of how a blog operates, it may be more than this Halifax pub guy to handle.

thanks for the insight
see you at the pub ( some call it bar! )

B. J. Johns,
A Halifax Pub Enthusiast

RSS: Gateway To The Blogs

garym — Sun, 20 Apr 2003 01:19:33 -0400

This article from SearchEngineWatch came out two days earlier and it's an even better introductory overview about what RSS is, what it does and why we keep bugging all the blogs we meet to add it in.

The web is the book

garym — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 01:52:26 -0400

... or perhaps you're face to face with a good reason why we need to implement TrackBack in Drupal :)

Seriously, trackback would let all these conversations about Taxonomies take place in their native environments while still feeding the central hub of Drupal.org. In Ben and Mena'a original plan, TrackBack and Ping were specifically for building networks around individual conversations, multi-site threads that extend and clarify a topic off into all sorts of different perspectives.

Thanks for the kind comments --- I'm just doin' my job, sir ;)

Taxo Taiken

garym — Sat, 19 Apr 2003 01:48:07 -0400

There's a word in Japanese, Taiken that means the knowledge gained through direct interaction ... my experience has been that this is the only way to really understand the Drupal taxonomies.. I had seen some examples, most notably one posted to the Drupal mailing list about a movie database with vocabularies for directors, f/x, locations, but that was an academic topic-map exercise -- it wasn't until I tried, and followed right through to the end, that I noticed the many subtle uses of Drupal taxonomies.

I'm still no where near the potential --- that would take all of the fun out of it! I'm content to still be but an egg.

a smaller url for that script

garym — Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:07:43 -0400

Stephane's script can be fetched from http://tinyurl.com/9qfi -- this will return a single PHP page that you place into your server in the directory where you want Drupal installed, and then access it with a web browser. It will get you a fair distance, but there are still a few steps before you're ready to roll:

Test sites often want new software off in a corner of the site, like teledyn.com/beta --- I have never tried drupal as a subpage of another site so this may get tricky; if the default install doesn't work, ask your ISP to give you a 3rd-level domain virtual host like sbp.teledyn.com and map that to the sub-directory on a linux server. Another alternative is to just find an old PC, install Mandrake 9.1 and the hook it to your LAN.

Run Stephan's PHP page

./themes/ contains the various template engines; I recommend using either xtemplate or smarty -- to set up your page layout you would edit the templates by taking your old pages and replacing the dynamic content with the template {tags} -- for smarty, you need to define two sets of templates and two stylesheets to get support for both tableless and table-based layouts:

./themes/smarty/tableless/site.css

./themes/smarty/tableless/header.tpl footer.tpl ...

./themes/smarty/tables/site.css

./themes/smarty/tableless/header.tpl ...

if you're happy with just table-based layout, you can disable the switch in ./themes/smarty/smarty.theme or use one of the table-based themes such as unconed. Xtemplate is a good choice if you only want pure XHTML/CSS.

Before you can get around your site, you will need to define vocabularies for the taxonomies. I recommend at least three:

navigation: these are the subject areas for your side-bar menu andshould be set in ./admin/blocks as the only visible taxonomy block.

forums: discussions groups will be structured on this list and the forum module will need to be set to use thisvocabulary.

topics: topic-map cross-ref keywords that group stories or blogs and also used to bundle news feeds.

see Diggin' Taxonomies for more ideas on using drupal vocabularies.

That's about it. You will then want to check out the admin/module and admin/block pages to enable the services you need and you should be rolling.

Donations to the tip jar are appreciated.

Gary's write-up offers great

Dries — Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:48:01 -0400

Gary's write-up offers great insight in Drupal's taxonomy system. I hope we can merge the different bits and pieces into the Drupal documentation.

Good examples

Gunnar Langemark@www.langemark.com — Mon, 14 Apr 2003 04:15:44 -0400

While I'm as enthusiastic about the taxonomy system in Drupal as You are, I must admit that I have still to get around to using it to its full potential.
The import module in the contributions - which uses taxonomy - is on my radar, and so are dhtml menus and XFML.
I just can't seem to figure it all out at once.

I have a project on the drawing board where I would like to use some of these features.

What I really need is a set of examples - describing a number of ways to apply category management in the Drupal fashion!
It is too flexible to be easily grasped.

I guess most new users of Drupal would benefit from that.

Community Knowledge in Action

garym — Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:54:23 -0500

Our thanks to Jim for posting this casestudy: The Chandler site is also a particularly good example of a use for the Drupal "Community Book" feature where members of their professional organization work together to create a comprehensive guide; as in the software-document uses of this service, the chandlers who find errors or omissions need only click the link to enter the form and submit their corrections for approval. Distributed knowledge management in action!