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Drupal based theme for LimeChat

Limechat-Drupal theme, channel imagesThe other day while in #drupal-au we were discussing IRC clients, and tanc mentioned a free OS X client called LimeChat, so last night I tried it out but promptly went looking for a better theme. Read more »

Gartner puts Drupal in visionary quadrant

Last year, Gartner classified Drupal as a 'niche player', meaning Drupal does well in a segment of a market, but that we had limited ability to innovate or outperform competitors. In this year's report, which was released last week, Drupal was promoted to the 'visionaries' category right next to Google and other big players. According to Gartner, visionaries align with Gartner's view of how a market will evolve, but they have yet to deliver against that vision. Read more »

Enable skype and callto protocols with Drupal 6

The bad guy is filter_xss_bad_protocol(), which allows for all kinds of protocols, but not skype. Because it uses a (hidden) variable, you can change it by hand using one of the following methods: This works or D5 as well. Read more »

Easy Publishing Workflow with Draft and Revisions in Drupal 5

I want 3 content states with revisions for any change in state:

  • Published
  • Draft (while leaving the currently published version live)
  • Un-Published

After trying numerous times, over several months, to get Workflow or WorkflowNG to co-operate with me and create a workflow whereby I could acheive the above, and ending up with extraneous revisions and sketchy reliability between content states I was able to disable a bunch of modules and do it all with only 2 modules. Read more »

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