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How to create a search engine with Google Search API

james — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:37:13 +0200

Well, it's not really a How-to article, but rather a bit of news about what I've been doing very lately.

I created a file search engine by using Google Search API. I first used Google Search API in the past when I wanted to add a bit of content automatically to each pages I created. I was pulling the first 8 results from Google Search API and displaying the title and description of the 8 results, and then lower I was displaying 3 links at random amongst the 8 results.

Adam Waters Has Just Released His RTP Transformation System For Fat Loss

james — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:49:22 +0200

Adam Waters has just released today his RTP Transformation System (RTP means Real-Time Physique) for fat loss.
So who is Adam Waters?
If you remember well, a little over 2 years ago he started a daily blog report with pictures on his physique transformation journey, after 6 years of failure. Here are a few pictures detailing his journey:

How To Add More Regions For Blocks In A Drupal Theme?

james — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:48:23 +0200

That's a question for those who use themes provided by others and found on Drupal.org but want to add a region somewhere in the theme, most usual place would be above the content, because the CONTENT region which already exists in most themes is indeed after the content, so when you put a block in the CONTENT region it ends up after everything, one node, the tags, the comments, etc.
So what if you want to add a region to a Drupal theme?

Drigg For Drupal 6 Finally Released!

james — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:51:54 +0200

Drigg's Useful Links:
Drigg's Official Site
Download & Install Instructions
Project's Page on Drupal.org
Dedicated Forum
Drigg's FaceBook Group
All Known Issues

It's been a hell of a time getting Drigg for Drupal 6 out the door, but this afternoon Tony Mobily has released this long-delayed update to this Digg-like module for Drupal. Eleven months after the first Drigg for Drupal 5 release and nine months after Drupal 6.0 was released, yes, it's finally here!

Drupal Wins Both Best PHP Open Source CMS And Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award

james — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:03:00 +0200

Drupal won both the Best PHP Open Source CMS category and the Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award from the Packt Open Source Content Management System Award!

Check the news here : www.packtpub.com/award

This is great news because my blog and lots of my websites are made with Drupal and I'm everyday happier not to have chosen Joomla when I was still evaluating both and hesitating.

Don't Vote But Go To My Blog!

james — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:15:28 +0200

Several celebrities including Jennifer Aniston and Leonardo Dicaprio made a video about not going to vote, and then going to vote and then that you have to go to vote, well fuck them, don't let them tell you what you should think. If you think obama or mccain are two motherfuckers who believe in an imaginary friend called Jesus and that both don't deserve even a second of your precious time, then fuck it, one or the other is going to be elected ANYWAY..

So, since their message was so dumb, I did them a favor and made them promote something more interesting than the next fucking president of the US, that is my wonderful blog:

BMW Contacted Me About My Blog's Logo

james — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:45:51 +0200

Today I received an email sent via the whois information email and one via the contact form on this site. The message came from Aimee Gessner, a legal counsel at the BMW group. It is about Trademark Infringement, because I used their logo where I only changed the colors, using the colors from Google's logo :

Download Google Chrome Web Browser

james — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:08:54 +0200

Download Google Chrome

I've just downloaded and installed Google Chrome beta which is the first web browser from Google. It's an open source browser just like Mozilla Firefox, but the difference is that each tab is a separate application, which means there will be no more browser freezing because of one bug in one of the opened tabs, with Google Chrome, only the tab in which the buggy page is loaded will be frozen, the rest of the tabs will still be active and running, good.
Also the layout of the browser is such that the interface is quite invisible, for instance there is no windows title bar or status bar, so it saves about 32 pixels in height compared to other browsers when not in fullview.

You can download Google Chrome here: http://www.google.com/chrome

Here's the cartoon: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

Here's the video which is the same as the cartoon, more or less:

SourceForge 2008 Community Choice Awards Results

james — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 01:25:08 +0200

Some time ago I mentionned SourceForge 2008 Community Choice Awards and was hoping for some good news for Drupal... I even created an account on SourceForge just to be able to vote... What do you think happened?

Here are the results:

THE START DATE OF RAMADAN AND A RAMADAN CALENDAR TO PRINT FOR FREE

james — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:22:35 +0200

I've just finished creating a page for the date of the Ramadan 2008 in french, because last year I created one and it had a huge success, so I'd like to repeat it this year if I can... or if Google God willing... :-)

But I thought also, why not try it in english? It will be more difficult since there are so many competitors, if I can call them that, but why not try it...
Note that in french I targeted two main searches related to the month of Ramadan : Date of Ramadan and Free Ramadan Calendar to print for free. Those are simple things but have proven popular on a short time span in September last year.

In 2008 Ramadan begins almost 2 weeks earlier, and it's just in a month or so.. better hurry up ! :-)