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Please note that I don't delete old blog entries very often, so some of the older posts will be out of date, or no longer relevant.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