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Spotify search engine

Posted November 21, 2009 - 17:48 by stewart robinson

I just had a play around and built a trivial Spotify album search engine.

I built it because I said yesterday I would build a site in one day. This was pretty easy. Although it is a bit pants that it only searches albums. I should do more. I can do more. I might do more.

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Economist.com module list

Posted September 15, 2009 - 14:53 by stewart robinson

At Economist.com we are building a decent sized Drupal site. I thought I'd do a dump of the modules we have so far using drush.

stew@stewbuntu:/var/www/sprint/drupal$ ../../drush/drush statusmodules
Name Enabled/Disabled Description
Acquia agent (acquia_agent) Enabled Allows Drupal to securely communicate with the Acquia Ne ...

In support of adding hook_page_not_found() to Drupal 7

Posted July 28, 2009 - 12:26 by stewart robinson

I want to try and get a hook_page_not_found() to Drupal 7.

I've taken this snippet from http://drupal.org/node/444756

I have only just started this but I wanted to post for opinion. In IRC I was pushed towards using hook_page_alter() instead of defining a new hook. However hook_page_alter() runs after the 404 header has been sent. I don't expect the code as is to get in. Largely I am posting this as a start because I work on large sites (Economist.com) and I don't want to have to use nfs to share the files directory as it adds another single point of failure in the stack.

Easy drupal core hacking

Posted April 27, 2009 - 10:16 by stewart robinson

I have found myself attempting to contribute to Drupal core more and more lately. So I wrote a shell script that gets me a fresh copy of head and applies a patch to it.

Essentially I will be looking through a Drupal issue, such as http://drupal.org/node/229778 and I'll want to add to a patch on there. I simply grab the URL of the patch file and run my gethead.sh

./gethead.sh http://drupal.org/files/issues/229778-log-changes-to-offline-mode.patch

Two mini Drupal projects

Posted July 16, 2008 - 09:29 by stewart robinson

I am working on two mini Drupal projects. One allows you to comment on drupal articles (nodes) via XMPP (Gtalk), the main problem here is presenting an interface through IM that will reliably allow the user to know which article they are commenting on.

Digg, Mixx e.t.c.

Posted June 4, 2008 - 08:26 by stewart robinson

It strikes me that Digg, Mixx e.t.c. all work out popularity by having people on other sites push the popularity up. This is based, I guess, on someone having read the page and then posted to digg e.t.c. Would there be value in counting the click throughs from digg to produce an alternative or modified top x page based on user actions on digg once the articles have got there?

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I'm learning

Posted May 23, 2008 - 10:30 by stewart robinson

I've been slowly but surely copying my old blog posts from stewsnooze on demon but Drupal doesn't really have any good tools for importing from Blogger. There are some basic tools which can move stuff but they seem crazy.

amazon mockery

Posted February 18, 2007 - 00:00 by stewart robinson

My on time and on target manager book is erm delayed.....

Dear Customer,

We wanted to give you an update on the status of your order.

We are sorry to report that the following items have been delayed.

Kenneth H. Blanchard (Author), Steve Gottry (Author) "The On-time,

On-target Manager (One Minute Manager)" [Hardcover]

We are sorry for any inconvenience this causes.

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Lighting fires

Posted February 7, 2007 - 00:00 by stewart robinson

Charlie Brooker lit a fire on the commentisfree blog on The Guardian. His post attacked mac users more than macs. It is worth a read. At the time of writing the comment count is 778 with 695 blogs linking to that article. It's a touchy subject. I guess this post will be 696. People have very strong opinions on mac vs pc. I think that they both have a