Web Applications: The Archives
Backing Up Your Drupal Database
Being a WordPress devotee, the shocking thing about Drupal is that it doesn’t have a backup utility built into the core system. Any content management system that relies upon a back-end database should provide a way to back that database up regularly.
Shockingly, Drupal doesn’t. But it does have a dedicated community, and there are [...]
Posted in Drupal, Web Applications on Thursday, April 24 2008 | 4 Comments »
HowTo: Configuring Triggers and Actions in Drupal 6
Drupal 6 offers built-in actions that can be performed whenever something happens on your site. Typically, you want to use this to get an alert when someone publishes content on the site, or a new user signs up.
You might even want to mimic WordPress and get an email alert every time someone leaves a [...]
Posted in Drupal, Web Applications on Thursday, April 3 2008 | 5 Comments »
Mollom: A Content Monitoring System
Developers Dries Buytaert and Benjamin Schrauwen have announced the release of an all new anti-comment spam system called Mollom. Since Dries is the mastermind behind the community-building CMS Drupal, Mollom seems to have a wider remit than you might find with comparable systems like Akismet.
They’re not just going after the usual automated comment spam that [...]
Posted in Blogging, Web Applications on Wednesday, April 2 2008 | Leave a comment »
Building Online Communities
In this post, I share some experiences of building online communities via forums. These are some of the factors we consider useful in building a thriving forum community.
Posted in Web Applications, Web Design & Standards on Monday, March 26 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hide The Sidebar In Google Reader
I’ve been trying to get to grips with keyboard shortcuts in Google Reader for a while now, but I discovered a cool one today when randomly pressing buttons.
To hide the sidebar subscriptions list in Reader, simply press the “u” key and it’ll disappear. Press “u” again to make the sidebar reappear.
Doing this can cause the [...]
Posted in Web Applications on Thursday, February 15 2007 | Leave a comment »
Get RSS Feeds For Any Simple Machines Forum
Simple Machines Forum is an excellent piece of free forum-ware. However, out of the box, it’s rubbish at giving you up-to-date features like RSS feeds.
I mentioned a while back that it was possible to republish RSS feeds from your forum on your blog.
How do we achieve this? Well, it’s quite easy actually. With the WordPress [...]
Posted in Web Applications, Web Design & Standards on Tuesday, January 23 2007 | 3 Comments »
