Remote blocks

Posted Fri, 01/29/2010 - 17:19

At Pronovix we've been thinking about distributed service systems. I was asked to do some background/proof of concept research, and after one day, here is the first experimental module, called remote blocks.

The first thing what I want to say about this module, is that the access control is currently omitted, because I haven't find a really easy and clean way to do it (something what works in 5 minutes).

Alfresco integration with OpenAtrium

Posted Mon, 01/11/2010 - 13:30

In October Jeff Potts had a screencast in which he demonstrated how it's possible to integrate Alfresco into OpenAtrium through CMIS. Since we wanted to do some experiments for a project we are working on we recreated the feature.

Using svn repos with bazaar

Posted Fri, 11/13/2009 - 20:22

In this very short blog post I will show you how to use your svn repositories with bazaar, by covering the very basic svn methods.

My Drupalcamp CZ presentation files

Posted Sat, 10/31/2009 - 14:08

Here are my presentation and the example python code from Drupalcamp CZ.

For the demos, you will need python and the PyQt binding (usually named pyqt4 or python-qt4 in the Linux distros, or you can download here: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro ). You may need to edit the services.py file because of the correct URL of your site.

Quick tips for Drupal developers #1

Posted Sat, 10/10/2009 - 23:30

Hi,

Here comes two quick hack what I discovered during this week:

#1 create a drupal.org compatible patch from svn:
svn diff -x '-up'

#2 create a cache table in a quick way:
function mymodule_schema() {
$schema = array();
$schema['cache_mymodule'] =
drupal_get_schema_unprocessed('system', 'cache');
$schema['cache_mymodule']['description'] = '';
return $schema;
}

Tips to make XML-RPC debugging easier

Posted Fri, 03/06/2009 - 00:21

In the past few days, I wrote a frontend for an XML-RPC service (I needed both the server and the client part). That was my first meeting with XML-RPC, so I had to debug a lot. However, since I'm pretty familiar with UNIX systems, I found some tools and techniques, which helped me a lot. I wanted to see every bit which goes in and out, to completely understand the process.

A quick&dirty taxonomy based css loader

Posted Mon, 12/01/2008 - 18:26

I had to implement a multiple colored theme for one of our sites. The site is a small company site with few static pages and a gallery. I know that there are several modules that can implement this feature, but I didn't want to install extra modules. So I added following few lines to the template.php file from my zen-based theme: