Drupal, How To

Show a list of items related to the current node

04.30.09 | Permalink | Comment?

This mini tutorial guides you through the steps required to create a view that:

determines which taxonomy terms are associated with the current node such as a news item
combines these terms into a default View Argument for Term ID

The result is a list with nodes which match at least one of the terms. So if your [...]

Drupal, How To

Enable Keyword-Search Within a View

04.30.09 | Permalink | Comment?

This mini tutorial guides you through the steps required to create a view that can be filtered or searched using keywords. When the View is run, the Views module joins the result of the View with the Drupal search index, yielding a filtered sub-set. You can choose to have the search box above the view [...]

Drupal, Programming

Full Menu Tree with Active Trail in Drupal 6

04.27.09 | Permalink | 12 Comments

One of the issues I wrestled with in building websites with Drupal was how difficult it seemed to access the entire menu tree in your page template. There are several modules available that people use to “solve” this issue, but at the cost of overcomplexity and one specific feature: knowing which menu item is active [...]

Drupal, Programming

Making MenuTrails Work with Views 2 in Drupal 6.x

04.21.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

Want to make your breadcrumbs work properly when using a Views page and Menu Trails? The following worked for me.
First, the good part: in modules/menutrails/menutrails.module add the following function:

/**
* Implementation of hook_views_pre_view()
*
* This will be invoked on every view request before the view is
* themed, even if the view is cached
[...]

Drupal, How To

Blank Administration Pages in Drupal 6 after Timeout

01.13.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Recently I’ve “converted” to a MacBook Pro for all my development and design work. I was working on a Drupal 6.7 installation and I tried to move it to a Windows server. The site seemed to work OK but all the Admin pages were unresponsive and finally returned a blank page. My logs said “HTTP [...]

Multi-touch, User Interfaces

Windows 7 Multi Touch Demo

11.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Here is a nice demonstration of the built-in multi touch capabilities we can expect in Windows 7. You’ll notice that much of it stems from the Microsoft Surface platform. The good part here is that it uses off-the-shelve hardware: a Dell Latitude XT, which comes with the N-Trig DuoSense overlay and a multi touch driver.
Oh, [...]

Multi-touch, Rants, User Interfaces

Stantum update

10.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I received an e-mail from Stantum. I won’t post it in its entirety but here’s an interesting part:
“We are now happy to offer you a possibility to purchase 1 unit of the SMK 15.4 for 2,900.00 Euros !  Even more aggressive pricing can be done for several units ordered. Just let us know how many [...]

DIY, Multi-touch, Programming, Research, User Interfaces

Tomato Touch

10.14.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

This is sooo cool. Check it out here: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/151274.asp

Multi-touch, Research, User Interfaces

Scalable Multi-touch

09.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Having worked in Scandinavia occasionally, it makes sense to me why so much technological innovation arises from this area. Smart phones, GPS coordinated taxi’s, paying with a chipcard in public transport, 100 MBit broadband internet - they had it all like five years ago. The reason? My guess it’s because it gets dark so early. [...]

Multi-touch, Rants

Show us The Stuff Already

02.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Sometimes we, “the masses”, are getting hot for yesterday’s news while the good stuff passes by largely unnoticed. Google notifications allow me to monitor day by day developments on technologies such as multi-touch (a term Apple appears to be trying to trademark for more than 6 months now). That quite clearly drove home the message [...]

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