Drupal

Apparently the Image module I've got installed is breaking the current install of Drupal (at least with my server configuration).
I don't have enough time to try and get everything working with that module again, so if any images are suddenly missing, that would be why.

I like to tag the posts on this site with the categories that they fit in, to make the navigation of the site easier. Of course, for this to be worth the effort, a menu is called for, a menu that contains links to each of these categories so all it takes is a single click to deliver every post tagged for that category.
I've had such a menu for quite a while - but I have had to manually edit this every time I want to add a new category, which has inhibited me from creating new tags when needed (such as the Firefox Plugins category) until I have time to muddle around with the menu interface.

Although this guide is targeted towards being used with an Ubuntu server, it should be easy to adapt it to other distributions assuming the same basic components are in place (a server running Apache, Mysql and PHP), and if the reader understands any difference in file locations on their distribution from Ubuntu server. This guide assumes that the user already has a server prepared to run Drupal and that they are running a copy of Drupal downloaded and installed manually rather than installed from a package manager.

In light of my recent experiences with moving Drupal onto a backup server, it seems like a good time to do a short write up of the things that are required to get Drupal up and running on Ubuntu Server - not the actually installation of Drupal on that server though (that will likely wait until I have a need to install from scratch again). Note that all commands require root access to run - generally just prefixing sudo to each will be sufficient.

Minutes before moving my thoughts blog to a new directory, I configured the pathauto module to automatically rename the path to each story to reflect its title rather than reading node/#. I had been meaning to do this for quite a while, and it turned out to be quite simple (and if I would ever get around to reading the Drupal Getting Started Guide I would already know about it).

This guide walks the reader through the steps of configuring a Drupal installation to allow Drupal users not only have images displayed within posts but also to configure the position and size of the images.
First download all the required modules to your webserver, these modules are:

• Image module
• Image Assist module
• Views module

One of the nicest aspects of having a smart phone is the easy access to the Internet that it can provide for you almost anywhere you go. No more hoping that a coffee shop has WiFi or having to wait to look up the answer to that nagging question up until you get home.
That being said, the screen is tiny. Due to the scale of the device, many web applications that you normally would access through a browser simple are unusable on the phone's browser, making applications that access the web application's API neccessary, like the Gchat application.

One of the rare struggles that i have had with Drupal so far is correctly positioning images within the body of a post. By default you can't do anything more than upload the image so that it can be downloaded by readers. The Image module allows you to attach an image in a manner that allows the readers to preview the image as a thumbnail, a thumbnail that you cannot specify the position of within the post.