Every meeting must have one clear decision maker. If there's no decision maker -- or no decision to be made -- the meeting shouldn't happen.
No more than 10 people should attend.
Every person should give input, otherwise they shouldn't be there.
No decision should ever wait for a meeting. If a meeting absolutely has to happen before a decision should be made, then the meeting should be scheduled immediately.

To create a variation of an existing theme, you could simply copy the desired theme's directory to sites/all/themes change the theme name in a a couple of places and start hacking away. But duplication is a waste of disk space. More importantly it creates an unnecessary maintenance overhead: if an improved version of the original theme comes out, you'll have to merge it with the changes you made in the various files of the overridden version.

Enter subthemes. Subthemes inherit all style sheets, javascript and templates (.tpl.plp files) from the theme they declare as their base. You don't have to hack into the base theme code, which means that when a new version of the base comes out, you automatically inherit all the improvements!

I’ve argued previously in defence of online anonymity – getting into the pseudonymity debate in the comments. My view since then has not changed, I still believe this is a battle we must not lose. So I’m very excited by some figures just published by Disqus. The platform, which enables people to comment across multiple websites via the same identity, has just released data showing that pseudonymous participation is actually the healthiest type.

Apple - please give some serious attention to the mess you’re creating with your Calendar APIs and apps, please. I could complain about the mess you caused by duplicating calendars when people upgraded to Lion to be able to support Reminders outside of event calendars, or I could complain about how you’ve yet to provide a way to use your CalendarStore framework to sync directly to iCloud and still require iCal to do this, but I won’t. 
I will, however, complain loudly about the mess and inconsistency shown with your current implementation of Reminders. (Specifically, the concept of “due times”, which you fail to properly implement in 2/3 of your own calendar apps). It is impossible to create a Reminder due on a certain time with Lion’s iCal, or even iCloud.com!

WP Super Cache is one of the top caching plugins for WordPress out there. In fact, it’s been downloaded more than 2 million times! (Not sure what blog caching is? Check out this post before you proceed!)

And the volume of installations are definitely an indication of it’s success in doing what most people need and that’s why I recommending it as a caching plugin for many clients and bloggers.

In fact, I use it for many of the properties that I actively manage! Here are a few:

Standard Theme WordPress Theme Demo
TentBlogger WordPress Themes Demo
State of the 8 Blog
And many more! Those are just a few that have been optimized for use of the plugin. This includes the WordPress Theme itself, plugins, server/hosting setup, and especially the WP Super Cache plugin itself.

As a result I highly recommend that you take a look at installing this for most (if not all) blogs – and it’s definitely essential to include as an option (of the many WordPress caching options) as you do your research for the right caching plugin!

So, what is it going to take? You see, 99% (or more) of self-hosted WordPress blogs run on an Apache + PHP-based web server configuration. I believe that to completely tweak-out a WordPress blog with W3TC you need either a NGINX + FastCGI configuration or a custom Litespeed + Op-Code in production (I personally run this setup with APC – Alternative PHP Cache). If you have no idea what I’m talking about then I think it’s only fair that one shouldn’t expect to get max and/or superior results unless they have one of those configurations or if you’re a kick butt at engineering an Apache-based environment.

This doesn’t even factor in one of the biggest contributing factors to this plugins’ success which is your blog’s hosting provider! A shared environment will always produce lower results than a virtual, semi-virtual, or dedicated system. In many circumstances you won’t be able to max this plugin out on a shared environment due to the host’s software installation and configuration constraints!

Finally, there are many other options within the plugin like using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that further enhance the value of W3TC, even though adding a CDN is not a unique value proposition (WP Super Cache has this too). Some of these options, like a CDN, require not only additional technical ability but also money which most bloggers, especially new ones, simply can’t afford. This puts the optimal usage of W3TC even further away from the average blogger.

Of course, you could say the same thing about most of the caching plugins out there that “max” results require server-side engineering and scripting to pump out the best results!

In any case I typically recommend that most bloggers head back over to WP Super Cache as their caching plugin of choice since most server and hosting providers can natively provide an optimal return on a very simple installation.

Why would you need a 2,000 pound steel blast door in the middle of the Adirondacks?

Because this particular house was built on the site of a 9-story Cold War-era Atlas F underground missile launch site – and it’s still there:



Backstory: I was in upstate New York over Christmas break when I read an article in the local paper about a man who had purchased a decommissioned 1960′s missile launch site in 1995, built a few houses and an airstrip on the property, and was now looking to sell it ($750k and it’s yours! click here!), or perhaps lease it for film production use.

I. HAD. TO. SEE. THIS. PLACE.

I immediately contacted the owners, who graciously provided me with a tour which I am thrilled to present below.

Work on event cognition has revealed a locationupdating effect, which is the finding that when people pass through a doorway to move from one location to another, they forget more information than if they do not make such a shift (Radvansky & Copeland, 2006; Radvansky, Tamplin, & Krawietz, 2010). In this work, the environments
people moved through were virtual ones.

Den 8 november startade jag min backup mot Crashplan. Idag blev den äntligen klar. 523 GB och 2900431 filer säkrade.

The American Civil Liberties Union has brought a suit against the US government over its seizure of the laptop of a computer security consultant - a seizure carried out at a Chicago airport about a year ago without a search warrant or any charges of crimes.

According to a report in Sunday's Boston Globe, the consultant - a former MIT researcher, David House - was returning from rest and relaxation in Mexico when federal agents seized his laptop.

According to the Globe, the government wanted to know more about House's connections to Bradley Manning, the US Army private accused of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks.

The seizure comes as no surprise. As Globe writer Katie Johnston notes, United States ports of entry are dubbed "Constitution-free zones" by civil liberties advocates.

Barring invasive techniques such as strip seizures, government agents are free to disregard Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. They don't need reasonable suspicion or probable cause, and they can take what they like, be it laptops or smart phones.

Just about two years ago, the photographer Magnus Reed moved from Brighton, an idyllic town by the seaside, to Berlin. He now lives with his daughter in a mind-blowing 500sqm flat in Schöneberg, which he uses as a live and work space. The decoration is very reduced, but the atmosphere is just perfect, that one feels at home immediately and has a hard time leaving again.

His story telling goes on forever and some might wonder how many lives he already lived. His passion for photography has taken Magnus to some of the remotest places on this planet, whereas his fashion photography brought him close to people like Anna Nicole Smith and Pamela Anderson, before they hit the limelight. He talks about how he fell in love in Berlin and why Iran is on his list of places to go…

Spotify Kitchen Sink is demo application for the Spotify Apps API. It demonstrates some of the available functionality and is designed to help developers who are getting started. Less time reinventing the wheel, more time reinventing the record player.

ON Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For seven of them, I was held there without explanation or charge. During that time my daughters grew up without me. They were toddlers when I was imprisoned, and were never allowed to visit or speak to me by phone. Most of their letters were returned as “undeliverable,” and the few that I received were so thoroughly and thoughtlessly censored that their messages of love and support were lost.

Some American politicians say that people at Guantánamo are terrorists, but I have never been a terrorist. Had I been brought before a court when I was seized, my children’s lives would not have been torn apart, and my family would not have been thrown into poverty. It was only after the United States Supreme Court ordered the government to defend its actions before a federal judge that I was finally able to clear my name and be with them again.

Om du använder Namecheap, passa på att uppdatera .com nu med rabatt innan VeriSigns prishöjning:

Before Lion it was possible to run an external display off a laptop and have the internal display disabled, even if you opened the lid. This can be useful for a myriad of reason including energy saving and better wifi reception. With Lion the internal display will always turn on when the lid is opened, even if there is already an external display connected.

A solution was posted on the Apple support forums by user chenga.8.

To go back to pre-Lion behaviour enter the following command in Terminal:

sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0"

To undo this change type type the following command or zap the PRAM (press Cmd+Opt+p+r at power up):

sudo nvram -d boot-args

Läckra bilder från någon rysk anläggning (raket?) som jag inte har någon aning om vad den gör. Eller snarare gjorde.

“Don’t Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends.”
The first person to crack and look at their phone picks up the check.
Our (initial) purpose of the game was to get everyone off the phones free from twitter/fb/texting and to encourage conversations.
Rules:
1) The game starts after everyone has ordered.
2) Everybody places their phone on the table face down.
3) The first person to flip over their phone loses the game.
4) Loser of the game pays for the bill.
5) If the bill comes before anyone has flipped over their phone everybody is declared a winner and pays for their own meal.

RT @HansRosling: Läs på! Världen har förändrats - DN.SE

I’ve been recently working on optimizing performance of a so-called one-page web app. The application was highly dynamic, interactive, and was heavily stuffed with new CSS3 goodness. I’m not talking just border-radius and gradients. It was a full stack of shadows, gradients, transforms, sprinkled with transitions, smooth half-transparent colors, clever pseudo-element -based CSS tricks, and experimental CSS features.

Aside from looking into bottlenecks on Javascript/DOM side, I decided to step into the CSS land. I wanted to see the kind of impact these nice UI elements have on performance. The old version of the app — the one without all the fluff — was much snappier, even though the JS logic behind it hasn’t changed all that drastically. I could see by scrolling and animations that things are just not as quick as they should be.

Was styling to blame?

Fortunately, just few days before, Opera folks came out with an experimental “style profiler” (followed by WebKit’s ticket+patch shortly after). The profiler was meant to reveal the performance of CSS selector matching, document reflow, repaint, and even document and css parsing times.

Among our many cherished verities and assumed assumptions is the widespread belief—nearly universal practice actually—that salespeople are to be paid commissions. It’s the way things are done. Stop signs are red. Salespeople get commissions.

But why?

This is a practice so deeply ingrained that almost everyone assumes that commissions are an unalloyed good, and that salespeople won’t work without them. I’ll return to that notion about work shortly, but it’s somewhat amazing that commissions are so widely lauded when they come laden with so many recurring problems. These issues pop up with distressing regularity.

I’m happy to announce our first-ever Mac app: Bronson Watermarker.

You can find it in the Mac App Store today.

Bronson does exactly one thing: watermark PDFs. There are other apps that let you do that (including Adobe Acrobat), but none of them are particularly good. They make simple jobs complicated, and they cost a lot more.

Bronson Watermarker also has two features that set it apart:

Give it a list of names, and Bronson will create individualized PDFs, ready to print or send.
Choose “Deep Burn” and Bronson will embed the watermark so thoroughly it’s never going away.
Watermarks are common in Hollywood, where studios and producers want to make sure screenplays don’t get passed along beyond their intended readers. Bronson Watermarker will save assistants a lot of time and hassle.

But Bronson is good for all sorts of uses beyond screenplays, so we’re aiming for a much wider user base — basically, anyone who needs to send out PDFs to people they don’t entirely trust.

Here's the other part of the cable-selling instructions:

Another favorite: overcoming objections to extended warranty pitches.

I worked at Staples in college. They gave us a booklet that we were supposed to carry around. One of my favorite pages:

RT @viticci: Real-life Wipeout through quantum levitation:

Postens "Sök brevlåda via karta" måste vara bland de sämsta webbtjänsterna som existerar bland företag/myndigheter

We put almost all of our Drupal sites behind the excellent Varnish HTTP accelerator, and it gives us a massive performance boost for most site visitors. However it seems to have a tendency to crash without warning and occasionally just dies, leaving our sites down.

We workaround this issue by using another piece of useful kit, called Monit, that keeps an eye on processes on your server and restarts them if necessary.

Installing and configuring Monit is really simple (these instructions are for a Debian based server):

Aren't you just bored with all those slides-based presentations?
Don't you think that presentations given in modern browsers shouldn't copy the limits of 'classic' slide decks?
Would you like to impress your audience with stunning visualization of your talk?
then you should try
impress.js*

Girocam: One click, one 360° photo

Girocam is a little revolution unto itself: It’s the first camera that let’s you take 360° shots completely automatically. The dream of many of us is now a reality: to create 360° panoramas and virtual tours very quickly while maintaining fine photographic quality. With three fisheye lenses and three sensors of ten megapixels each, Girocam takes three photos in just one click, allowing it to cover a field of 360°x150°. The completely automated stitching is done by included Kolor Girocam Studio software; it was developed by Kolor and is based on the same state of the art algorithms as those used in Autopano, the world benchmark for image stitching software. With the Panotour Pro software (optional), finally turn your shots into interactive virtual tours and publish them to the web.

Ett rätt avancerat recept på chili med en stor mängd ingredienser, en del rätt udda för att vara chili.

Harvia har ju världens snyggaste bastuaggregat. Bastulavarna går i vinkel, den längre laven är så lång att en vuxen karl kan ligga ner. Snygga underljus ger belysning tillsammans med led-lampor i stenskyddet bakom aggregatet. Enkelt, stilrent. Precis som jag skulle vilja ha det! Johan och Maria har gjort ett kanonjobb!


Duschutrymmet med stort, vitt kakel varvat med svart mosaik. Takdusch, ja tack! Det är ju så underbart att duscha med vattnet strilande över hela kroppen, inte bara knoppen. Nere vid golvet finns en kaklad hylla, där familjen samlar alla "medikament" som används i duschen.

Here at Tom’s Hardware, you know we don’t typically get political because with the heated debates between AMD vs. Intel who needs Donkeys vs. Elephants?



We’ve got no agenda beyond providing the best hardware news and reviews we can dig up.  But here at Year’s end, there’s a subject we want to share with you that may come to affect how you experience us and the rest of the internet.  It’s called SOPA, or the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, and it is headed through U.S. Congress with its sister bill PROTECT-IP in the Senate.  SOPA threatens to fundamentally change the way information is presented online by placing massive restrictions on user-generated content like posts to forums, video uploads, podcasts or images.  In a nutshell, here’s what the law would do:
 

Assign liability to site owners for everything users post, without consideration for whether or not the user posted without permission.  Site owners could face jail time or heavy fines, and DNS blacklisting.
It would require web services like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to monitor and aggressively filter everything all users upload.
It would deny site owners due process of law, by initiating a DNS blacklisting based solely on a good faith assertion by an individual copyright or intellectual property owner.
It would give the U.S. government the power to selectively censor the web using techniques similar to those used in China, Malaysia and Iran.  The Great Firewall of China is an example of this type of embedded, infrastructural internet censorship.

He said the way to be a better comic was to create better jokes and the way to create better jokes was to write every day. But his advice was better than that. He had a gem of a leverage technique he used on himself and you can use it to motivate yourself—even when you don't feel like it.

He revealed a unique calendar system he uses to pressure himself to write. Here's how it works.

He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker.

He said for each day that I do my task of writing, I get to put a big red X over that day. "After a few days you'll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You'll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain."

"Don't break the chain," he said again for emphasis.

Försöker beställa domännamn, men @Binero känner inte till Chrome, utan föredrar FireFox [sic].

I started my startup journey about 4 years back, right around the time Amazon introduced AWS. We started with a VPS and eventually moved to dedicated servers for Muziboo, completely skipping the cloud wave. We are doing the same for SupportBee. We do use S3 but we never used EC2 for hosting. However, I have worked as a consultant a couple of times in the last few years and I have worked with EC2 on client projects. I understand the benefits of cloud hosting but I don’t think that cloud is the right solution for every company. Traditional dedicated server hosting still makes a lot sense for majority of companies out there. However, before I get to that, let’s first quickly go over the benefits of cloud hosting

Google Search has the annoying habit of changing the result link when you click it. If you try to copy the link you get some gibberish instead of the actual link. This extension disables this behavior - on any Google domain, without having to configure anything. Simply install and enjoy!

Stänga alla webbläsare bara för att uppdatera Office-paketet? You're doing it wrong, Microsoft.

So with so much dependency on all this, I knew I needed to save this stuff. If Pinboard disappeared tomorrow, I need a way to access this stuff I’m saving. Maciej Ceglowski, developer of Pinboard, gives you the option at any time to export all your items as HTML, XML, or JSON. Data portability is good. However, there’s no automated option to do this.

So I came up with a way to automate everything. This is an idiot’s guide to do it, since I’m by no means a pro at this stuff - I just poke around until I can make it work.

In today’s paradoxical world of maximizing shareholder value, which Jack Welch himself has called “the dumbest idea in the world”, the situation is the reverse. CEOs and their top managers have massive incentives to focus most of their attentions on the expectations market, rather than the real job of running the company producing real products and services.

Here’s how this critical piece of China’s modern censorship mosaic works.

First, the big transnational social media players – Facebook, Twitter, YouTube – are blocked in China. This clears the playing field for homegrown firms, such as Renren, which provides Facebook-type functions, Youku.com, a YouTube-like video sharing service, and Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like microblogging service.

These services are then required to have automated or manual monitoring and censorship mechanisms in place to quickly identify and delete user-generated postings or disable accounts that run afoul of the Communist Party’s ever-changing censorship red lines. It’s a daily reality for Chinese bloggers, academics, activists, and even ordinary users to discover a posting deleted, their account locked, or their “friends” unable to view what they have just shared.

The paper, published by Cato in April 2011, found that in the five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.

It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the problem far better than virtually every other Western country does.

Compared to the European Union and the US, Portugal drug use numbers are impressive.

Following decriminalization, Portugal has the lowest rate of lifetime marijuana use in people over 15 in the EU: 10%. The most comparable figure in America is in people over 12: 39.8%, Proportionally, more Americans have used cocaine than Portuguese have used marijuana.

The Cato paper reports that between 2001 and 2006 in Portugal, rates of lifetime use of any illegal drug among seventh through ninth graders fell from 14.1% to 10.6%. Drug use in older teens also declined.  Life time heroin use among 16-18 year olds fell from 2.5% to 1.8%.

New HIV infections in drug users fell by 17% between 1999 and 2003.

Death related to heroin and similar drugs were cut by more than half.

The number of people on methadone and buprenorphine treatment for drug addiction rose to 14,877 from 6,040, after decriminalization, and the considerable money saved on enforcement allowed for increase funding of drug – free treatment as well.

Property theft has dropped dramatically (50% - 80% of all property theft worldwide is caused by drug users).

As of the Leopard release of OS X, ssh-agent is more tightly integrated with Keychain. It is possible to store the passphrases of all of your SSH keys securely in Keychain, from which ssh-agent will read them on startup. The bottom line is that it is simple to secure your keys with passphrases, but never have to type the passphrase to use them! Here is how:

Add the pass phrase to each ssh key to keychain:

ssh-add -K [path/to/private SSH key]
Whenever you reboot your Mac, all the SSH keys in your keychain will be automatically loaded. You should be able to see the keys in the Keychain Access app, as well as from the command line via:

ssh-add -l

I didn’t find one clear and con­cise place explain­ing how to setup pri­vate keys on OS-X. This is my attempt to rem­edy that.

First, you need to gen­er­ate the Pri­vate (id_dsa or id_rsa) and Pub­lic (id_dsa.pub or id_rsa.pub) Key pair. Prop­erly secured machines don’t accept RSA encryp­tion (rsa1) which was used by SSH v1 pro­to­col, but they do accept RSA v2 and DSA, with DSA being arguably more secure. For the –t option use either rsa or dsa, with dsa being pref­fered. The rest of this arti­cle assumes you’re using dsa. You are able to choose a passphrase, so pick some­thing easy to remem­ber and suf­fi­ciently complex.

The diamond invention—the creation of the idea that diamonds are rare and valuable, and are essential signs of esteem—is a relatively recent development in the history of the diamond trade. Until the late nineteenth century, diamonds were found only in a few riverbeds in India and in the jungles of Brazil, and the entire world production of gem diamonds amounted to a few pounds a year. In 1870, however, huge diamond mines were discovered near the Orange River, in South Africa, where diamonds were soon being scooped out by the ton. Suddenly, the market was deluged with diamonds. The British financiers who had organized the South African mines quickly realized that their investment was endangered; diamonds had little intrinsic value—and their price depended almost entirely on their scarcity. The financiers feared that when new mines were developed in South Africa, diamonds would become at best only semiprecious gems.

The major investors in the diamond mines realized that they had no alternative but to merge their interests into a single entity that would be powerful enough to control production and perpetuate the illusion of scarcity of diamonds. The instrument they created, in 1888, was called De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., incorporated in South Africa. As De Beers took control of all aspects of the world diamond trade, it assumed many forms. In London, it operated under the innocuous name of the Diamond Trading Company. In Israel, it was known as "The Syndicate." In Europe, it was called the "C.S.O." -- initials referring to the Central Selling Organization, which was an arm of the Diamond Trading Company. And in black Africa, it disguised its South African origins under subsidiaries with names like Diamond Development Corporation and Mining Services, Inc. At its height -- for most of this century -- it not only either directly owned or controlled all the diamond mines in southern Africa but also owned diamond trading companies in England, Portugal, Israel, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland.

I’ve been thinking about Louis CK lately. I’m a fan of his show on FX, and I’m so happy his recent adventure in distributing his newest comedy special himself has been a rousing success. But my thoughts are going elsewhere to wonder why he has blown up in popularity in the past couple years, and why his comedy seems to resonate with these times. It always feels like there’s a comedian willing to address contemporary concerns with insight and honesty for each moment in time. All the greats had their focus: Richard Pryor and Chris Rock had race, George Carlin had absurdity, and I think Louis has hit on some sort of subterranean undercurrent of emotion that I didn’t realize might be swelling until I listened more closely: shame.

Fincher’s Lisbeth is not Larsson’s. She is sexualized, softened, romanticized, and less empowered. Whether he intended this or not, it’s what countless critics see in the film; they don’t mind it – in fact most like it – but they’ve recognized it and have written about it.

There seems to be a relief that Mara’s Salander is a more relatable person, that classic “female” tropes like softness and vulnerability are visible. It speaks to society’s overwhelming discomfort with the unclassifiable, whether it’s a person’s sexuality, a terrible people who does good things, or the motivations of a young woman who has been horrifically mistreated, mentally and physically, for decades.

Yet the entire point is that Lisbeth doesn’t seem real to the regular Joe or Jane walking down the street. Even those closest to her don’t truly understand her. She’s got the double-whammy of an autistic mind and a hellish life with experiences we can’t begin to fathom. We’re not supposed to understand her, or lust after her. As A. O. Scott noted in his review: “We see all of Ms. Mara and quite a bit less of Mr. Craig, whose naked torso is by now an eyeful of old news. This disparity is perfectly conventional – the exploitation of female nudity is an axiom of modern cinema – but it also represents a failure of nerve and a betrayal of the sexual egalitarianism Lisbeth Salander argues for and represents.”

FontShop's Best Typefaces of 2011
Another year has whizzed by! While last year saw the real breakthrough for webfonts, this year we witnessed the introduction of mobile fonts and the promise of more diversity and typographic refinement in mobile apps. Yet the news in type was not dominated only by technology. Our beloved type designers cooked up delicious new digital faces for FontShop’s menu of typographic treats.

To celebrate the end of another exciting year in type, our type experts put their heads together to compile our annual “Best Of” list, highlighting the typefaces that surprised, impressed, and delighted us. (And if the “Best Of“ list whets your appetite for fonts, check our Newsletter Archive for more morsels. All this year’s new typefaces are in there.)

By replacing Drupal's core search with Solr, it's possible to gain very fine control of the results. Not only is Solr very flexble, but the apachesolr module is generous with its hooks. One potential use is boosting the score based on dates, so that recent documents receive a higher relevancy score. We've used this for a ticket calendar to help visitors find upcoming events.

What Will Happen If Gay Marriage Is Legalized?

In no particular order this is my tribute to all the films that have made me think, laugh, gasp, cry, but most of all have stood out in my memory. There aren't many pre 1980 films on the list, which basically reflects that I grew up in the 80's, but overtime I hope to redeem myself and no doubt the list will change...

@marcoarment You do look older than I thought:

Grazing Push for Alfred will allow you to push a URL to any iDevice associated with your Grazing Push account. No more having to rely on bookmarklets and the site to push data to your iDevice. Just open up Alfred and send away.

As we enter the 2011 Holiday season, who doesn’t love a freshly updated Drupal 7 contributed modules list?

These modules are great stocking-stuffers for every Drupaller on your list!

In all seriousness, as I mentioned in my last top modules list, the sheer number of Drupal modules (in the thousands) can be very intimidating. For the new developer how do they decide which modules to use? Google search can help you find a module for a specific use case, but it doesn’t help you find the most common modules that seasoned developers use on every site.

So what I have done is trimmed my list down to the top 50-ish modules that I am most likely to use on any given project. Most of these modules I have used on real projects, many of them have been carried over from Drupal 6. Several of these are new Drupal 7 modules that didn’t exist in Drupal 6 and some others are Drupal 7 replacements for Drupal 6 modules.


I hope that this helps both newbie developers as well as newcomers to latest version of Drupal. Enjoy!

Någonstans på vägen har de svenska kolonierna försvunnit ur vår historia. Det är
alltid andra som har kolonier, fraktar slavar och brännmärker barn till slavar
4
. Men under ett
antal år bedrevs denna verksamhet också under svensk flagg. Våra förfäder byggde upp ett
aktiebolag för slavhandel, organiserade slavexpeditioner, inrättade en särskilt tull på slavar
och införde i vår grundlag särskilda slavlagar. Och detta för enbart tvåhundra år sedan.
Alltså: i förrgår.

In versions of Mail prior to OS X 10.6, you could copy an email address from a message by Control-clicking on the address and choosing Copy Address from the contextual menu. As part of my job, I do this a lot -- users will email me, asking to look up their account name, for instance, so I need to paste their email address into a web form.

In 10.6, it seems someone at Apple decided that Copy Address should really mean Copy Name And Address And Add Angle Brackets Around The Address, because that's exactly what happens when you use Copy Address in Snow Leopard's Mail app. Instead of getting Sue_Sample@somesite.com on the clipboard, you get Sue Sample <Sue_Sample@somesite.com>.

Besides now having an incorrect name on the Copy Address contextual menu item (thought admittedly, the alternative is a bit lengthy), this behavior is incredibly irritating if you want only the email address on the clipboard. Thankfully, some engineer somewhere deep within Apple included a hidden preference to change this behavior -- and the fine folks at Mac Daddy World (the Ecamm Network blog site) dug deep and discovered this preference.

A database of hidden settings for Mac OS X

I believe this is what they mean by not supporting multiple weights for a font family of the same name.

So the workaround is to declare each bold (and italic) styles as a different font-family instead of assuming that `font-weight: bold` and `font-style: italic` will take care of that. For Internet Explorer.

But would calling multiple Google Webfonts URLs be enough? The generated CSS still calls the same font-family. I'd copy the CSS but change the font-family values for each font.

Hur att få Google Web Fonts att lira bra i Internet Explorer 8 för flera varianter av ett typsnitt: #googlewebfonts

favourite new trick of @alfredapp -and it took way too long for me to find. Find app you want then press right twice to open most recent doc

As I watch the legislative abominations named SOPA, PIPA, and NDAA follow the lead of the DMCA and the Patriot Act in the United States, I realize that the worst possible scenario for civil liberties appears to actually be materializing.
The internal talk within the Swedish Pirate Party has long been that it’s our job to prevent Europe from descending into totalitarian fascism. The United States is lost; it is beyond help and repair and will descend. Our job is to prevent Europe from happily following suit, but instead break off the leash in time. This was apparent five years ago, and is screamingly obvious today.

A few years ago I filled out a book of watercolour paper with whatever colours and textures I could think of, and scanned them for personal use. Hopefully other people will find them useful as well!

Ack, Värmland, du sköna i Battlefield 3: (via )