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Role Weights gets Token support and a 6.x branch
Role Weights finally gets a bit of loving in the form of a 5.x-1.4 release with a couple of new features, namely Token support for a user's lightest and heaviest roles and the optional re-ordering of /admin/user/roles and /admin/user/access forms by role weight. These features were introduced in 5.x-1.3, however 5.x-1.4 also fixes a bug which left orphaned entries in the role_weights table after roles got deleted.
I've also branched for 6.x compatibility (at last) - snapshots from 6.x-1.x-dev should be functional and in line feature-wise with 5.x-1.4, bar Views 2 support. I'd love to improve Role Weights for 6.x: re-writing support for Views 2 and adding drag and drop re-ordering of roles being two areas that need some attention, but I'm just too darn short on time at the moment. As always, patches and reviews are welcome in the issue queue!
As a side note, I found this reference pretty useful regarding some function/API changes not mentioned elsewhere.
Dropping the x
With just three days to go before the official launch of Ubuntu 8.10 and its variants, I've switched from Xubuntu (yet another Drupal site!) one to plain old Ubuntu. This is mostly because I spent an evening last week blitzing my laptop's hard drive and installing a vanilla Ubuntu 8.10 beta.
Xfce and Thunar were faves of mine way back when running SomeRandomDistro, which led me to using it on my Dell Inspiron 1501. Kudos should be given here to redDEAD over at Ubuntu on Dell Inspiron 1501 for all the tips. Things were reasonably good, but there seemed to always be issues. Broken ATI drivers, naff in-built Wi-Fi card, me being a mong, etc etc...
So far the beta (its now RC, folks) has been awesome. Pretty much all those niggles I had previously on this 'top have been fixed/addressed/alleviated/vanisherated:
- Compiz, or probably the ATI/fglrx drivers, work without fuss or having something weird like one X session within another going on
- volume control works, via the Fn keys or a panel icon
- screen brightness adjustments works, via the Fn keys or a panel icon
- network/wireless set up was easy, but I've yet to try WPA again (something was seriously afoot here with the inbuilt Wifi card)
- Flash player for Firefox seems less crashy, was an issue getting this to work on an amd64
Depending on one's point of view, these could be down to (a) various things being fixed in the latest release; or perhaps more likely (b) me still being a bit of a noobus when it comes to Linux's innards and running a bodged up distribution on a piece of crap Dell.
Going wayback...
Inspired by Google's 10th birthday and their 2001 search index, I had a poke around and found one of the very first web sites (or pages) I put together for local games company Jester Interactive.
Archived version from the Web Archive.
Look! Curved corners in 2002 - I was so ahead of the times. Just don't ask me what I was on when I dreamed up that layout.
All Hell is Breaking Loose
Another video from Kenny at TinSpider: this time we have zombies and skellingtons in the middle of a graveyard rising to party to London Elektricity's All Hell is Breaking Loose.
NexusFont
Sometimes my fonts directory can be a great source of inspiration when getting started designing a logo. For years I used The Font Thing which seemed to be one of the best freebies around for previewing custom text in multiple, selected fonts at once as well as managing, archiving and installing/uninstalling fonts.
Unfortunately, The Font Thing hasn't been updated since 1999 and was a little bit shaky when previewing folders with a large amount (500+) of fonts.
So, colour me chuffed when I took another look on SnapFiles and stumbled on NexusFont by xiles.
