stop. rewind. play. (genox's blog)

Winter Impaired

genox — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:14:41 PST

This is why I don’t like winter: At some point half way through it, I start to get the winter-blues really hard. Like now. I’m constantly tired, no matter how much coffee I drink, no matter how much I sleep. I usually have a nap sometime in the late afternoon to get back to work [...]

Epson R2880: Proofing 2.0

genox — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:34:00 PST

I already wrote an article about printing proofs with the Epson R2880, little more than a year ago. Since then, I tried out various approaches. Here’s what works best for me and what I still consider a “low budget” solution, compared to a professional RIP of course. ;-) First, the hardware: The Epson R2880 is a [...]

Nodes: Inserting Images

genox — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:03:44 PST

While Drupal provides a lot of extensions and gimmicks, one of the big downsides currently is image handling. Basic image handling, like inserting images into a node’s body field are quite the task to achieve – there’s plenty of approaches but almost all fail at some point. Mostly because of bugs or lack of basic [...]

Byebye IE6

genox — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:40:20 PST

I am really really tempted to officially drop IE6/5.5/5 support and just show those browsers a big, huge “UPDATE NOW” image ASAP. I can’t tell you *how* very excited I am that it seems like IE6 is going to vanish probably during the next 6 months or so. Life is going to be so easy. [...]

Well done.

genox — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:47:51 PST

I don’t get around writing down some thoughts about this topic. The law which was passed last week in switzerland is in fact absolutely ridiculous. It boils down to this: The campaign of the SVP was building upon fear. It didn’t really matter wether it would have been a law to prohibit anyone from building [...]

Say “hi” to drupdater v0.1

genox — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:37:47 PST

After some bugfixing and testing, Drupdater version 0.1 is ready. Not for download yet, tho. I am still trying to find the perfect balance between stability and ease of use. I also rewrote the update procedure to gain performance and stability: Instead of running a synch over the whole “modules” directory, I know Tar/BZip the [...]

iPhone game “iFluenza” available!

genox — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:47:42 PST

We just published our first iPhone game in the AppStore: iFluenza is finally available. :) Here’s a little gameplay video. “We” being Michu Vogt who did all the coding and yours truly, responsible for the weird colors and music. ;) iFluenza – just another iPhone game… Save the world! Stop the evil virus. Kill all viruses and [...]

Drupal: Limited drush magic (update)

genox — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:56:08 PST

I was trying to figure out how to create a simple way to keep my 15+ drupal installations clean and up to date with a single mouseclick for a long time now. Of course, drush was the first thing I looked at, but since it is a command line tool and all my clients are [...]

Drupal: Columns for the Body

genox — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:00:51 PDT

Probably not entirely groundbreaking, but a nice way to achieve nice layouts using Drupal + WYSIWYG occured to me about 3 projects ago when I was trying to figure out a way of haveing multiple columns in a page’s body field. Sure, you can do the same thing by using CCK and define a couple [...]

My Drupal Arsenal V1.1

genox — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:00:40 PDT

I previously introduced you to a list of my favourite plugins. Some time has passed and I am able to present to you an updated version of it. New plugins are marked with *, removed plugins are marked with † and the “swiss knife of modules” is marked with a +. Keep in mind that [...]