awebfactory - web application factory pattern

What does Gimp have to do with Twitter? If you haven't already, first of all see Open source madness - Customizing my Twitter page with Gimp.

Now, isn't this overkill, you may ask, using Git to version graphic design work?

Well, not really. The whole idea of using Gimp is to have a kind of source file, which then generates your Twitter background. Then, say you want to go back to a previous version, if you are using any kind of version control system, you can go back in the time machine and generate from there. We'll use Git.

Getting started

Open up a terminal on your working directory. Perform the following commands:

Now that my book is out more than one Twitter intoxicated colleague has instructed me as to power twitter-mastership, and that I must replace my tired old Twitter offerings.

I searched around and came up with the following procedure, which worked for me on my Ubuntu laptop like a charm, using all Open Source tools.

[level: Beginning, Intermediate]

So what's the Wysiwyg scene in Drupal 6.x, now that most serious developers agree the foundation of choice at this point is to move on to the current Drupal release?

I headed over to good old tinymce project page ( http://drupal.org/project/tinymce ) where I was told immediately in no uncertain terms (in factory-occupied-by-the-workers-to-defend-their-jobs red, no less) to forget that and go with the new rich text editor agnostic Wysiwyg API.

Links

• Buy the book and donate to the Drupal Association at the same time (Wiley affiliate link)
• Wrox book homepage site (grab free chapter)
• Announcement on Drupal site
• Download the code!
• Wrox P2P Forum (questions and answers, errata...)
• Get the ebook (available end of April/early May).

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Hi there, my name is Victor Kane. I am a website application and development process engineer and I have written Leveraging Drupal: Getting your site done right to help people use the free, Open Source Drupal CMS Web Application Framework without having to go through the steep learning curve I had to follow. The book focuses, in a detailed and practical manner, on a wide range of disciplines, tools and best practices you need in order to optimize the way you approach development projects built on this CMS and framework...This is for people who, given a set of website requirements and a community of users who need to use that website, have to learn how to fashion Drupal to their needs, how to domesticate Drupal, in short, how to get it done...

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If you missed "Do it with Drupal" roll out the old time machine and go now!

No-one asked me to write a review of http://www.doitwithdrupal.com/ . However, in hopes of rectifying this painful omission, I have taken it upon myself to review the USD $95 purchase of access to the amazing video archive. Well, actually, I was so impressed that I decided to share my own experience.

I plunked down the admissions fee, and was really blown away by the clarity and precision achieved by a very high critical mass of presenters. For some reason (perhaps because they were being paid), everyone made a very special effort on their preparation. (No need to by cynical, Victor, I am sure DrupalCon DC will be every bit as professional.)

And everything is straight from the horse's mouth! Earl Miles on Views 101. Karen Stevenson on CCK from the ground up.

Nowhere is this more aparent than with John Albin's Designing with Drupal, which I will review as an example.