Dave's Blog

Please note that I don't delete old blog entries very often, so some of the older posts will be out of date, or no longer relevant.

Airport weather

Sunday, January 10 2010

I wanted a quick way of finding pretty accurate weather all over the world, without trawling though websites wondering how old the weather update was, and if it was even…

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NuSphere PhpED

Sunday, December 13 2009

I am always looking around for the perfect IDE. I've used quite a few over the years, but I always end up coming back to Eclipse / PDT, mainly because…

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Drupal external authentication site

Wednesday, November 18 2009

I have just plugged in external authentication to the New Law Journal site I built. The auth module is an apache filter, and I wrote the Drupal end of it. It's…

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What have I been doing?

Friday, November 6 2009

I've been quite snowed under with work lately. I am juggling between developing a Drupal 5 site, and a Drupal 6 site, fixing everyone else's problems, setting up a dedicated…

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Another Drupal site

Sunday, August 23 2009

Another one of my Drupal magazine sites has gone live: New Law Journal (I also did the theme this time)

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Ubuntu on Virtual Machine

Thursday, June 4 2009

I am currently running Ubuntu on a virtual machine, and my laptop is running Vista. I gave up a while ago trying to battle with Microsoft Virtual PC, the support for…

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Large Drupal site

Saturday, May 9 2009

I have just completed one of the biggest Drupal sites in the UK. It hooks into an external authentication system, bypassing the Drupal login. It uses Drupal hooks to authenticate. The…

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Eclipse

Monday, February 23 2009

For all you Eclipse freaks (like myself), there is a new-ish version of Eclipse out, Ganymede. I use the PDT versions. I've been using it for over a month now, and…

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