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Using ImageMagick and GD2 together with Drupal ImageCache

A quick (working!) introduction to using ImageMagick in custom ImageCache actions while using GD as your default toolkit.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on October 11, 2010. Tagged with: php, images, resize, imagemagick, gd.

Going Further with Litecal

This article builds on my last by adding additional features to a calendar view based on litecal.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on July 6, 2010. Tagged with: drupal, views, calendar, litecal.

Using Litecal

This is a quick introduction to using the litecal module to display month calendars on Drupal powered web-sites.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on July 5, 2010. Tagged with: drupal, views, date, calendar.

Providing default settings for Django applications

There doesn't seem to be an official way for a Django application to provide default values for its "custom" settings - you just document them somewhere and hope that the users take note. Here is some proof of concept code to automatically inject an application's defaults into Django's settings.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on May 11, 2010. Tagged with: programming, python, django, application, settings.

Updating an INI file with AWK

A colleague asked if I knew a way to edit a line in a particular section of a .ini file in a shell script. There are plenty of ways to do this, but my answer is in AWK.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on April 14, 2010. Tagged with: programming, awk, text.

Barcamp Perth rides again

Barcamp Perth 4.0 (or 2010, there seems to be some confusion) was held today at the Central Institute of Technology. Here are some notes about the day.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on April 10, 2010. Tagged with: bcperth4, barcamp, events.

Attribute Oriented Programming in PHP

The fourth talk at the Open Programming Language Miniconf 2010 was Peter Serwylo's presentation about Attribute Oriented Programming in PHP.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on January 18, 2010. Tagged with: lca, events, lca2010, oplm2010, php, code, notes, aop.

Notes on Preparing for PHP6

My notes on Ben Balbo's talk at Open Programming Language Miniconf 2010: Preparing for PHP6.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on January 18, 2010. Tagged with: lca, lca2010, oplm2010, php, code.

Notes on Introducing Gearman

My notes on Giuseppe Maxia's talk at Open Programming Language Miniconf 2010: Introducing Gearman -- Distributed server for all languages.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on January 18, 2010. Tagged with: lca, oplm, lca2010, oplm2010, notes, events.

Notes on Haskell, and all the wonderful things it doesn’t let you do

My notes on Stephen Blackheath's talk at Open Programming Language Miniconf 2010: Haskell, and all the wonderful things it doesn’t let you do.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on January 18, 2010. Tagged with: event, lca, haskell, lca2010, oplm2010, notes.