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Sometimes (ok, often) doing something programmatically in Drupal 7 is like drawing blood from a stone. I wanted to replace the username with...

I attended my first (and hopefully last) Speed Awareness course yesterday evening in Milton Keynes. This AA Drivetech course was run by an ...

" Nicholas Negroponte, the brains behind the One Laptop Per Child initiative, is detailing a new plan to inspire the world’s poorest c...

The URL for an RSS feed from your YouTube channel is: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/yourchannelname/uploads Why YouTube make it i...

With the news of the M5 pile-up fresh in my mind, on the way home from Brands Hatch last night I was witness to the resulting carnage, not t...

If you're tearing your hair out trying to make Drupal keep line breaks and new paragraphs in the body of your Posts, Stories, etc. make ...

Perhaps Apple have realised the new QuickTime player that comes with Snow Leopard is pants because they provide, on the Snow Leopard install...

The more I use Snow Leopard the more I come to realise that its a lesson in how to abandon over 15 years of development of useful, easy-to-u...

These are the permissions you are expected to grant to Yahoo just so that your Flickr images can automatically be posted to your Facebook ac...

In configuring Apache to allow various directives in an .htaccess file, if you find yourself banging your head against a wall since you have...

Thanks, authors of JW Player , for wasting at least 3 hours of my life because you have changed your JavaScript API and not published any do...

Its not necessary to use either PHP or SHTML to include a dynamic menubar in a set of web pages - you can do it with JavaScript. First defin...

With the built-in XML functions of PHP5, its now pretty straightforward to parse well-formed RSS data, eg: $link = $node->getElementsByTa...