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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

Lest we get too smug ...

garym — Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:21:49 -0400

and before you run off and nab a Mozilla product thinking the mere swap of one surface application and all is well with world again, you'd do well to note the "news reports of a similar gaping hole in Mozilla and Firefox":http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/08/2159244&n where the real kicker of the commentary on SlashDot puts their finger on the exact pulse of the problem:

bq. "Note that this only affects users of Mozilla and Firefox on Windows XP or Windows 2000."

_badda bing badda boom_ they got ya all over again.

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.