Pedro Posada's Blog

BRING DOWN IE6

pedro — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:50:13 -0400

Very interesting website about bringing down Internet Explorer 6. As far as I am concerned, no one in the world should use IE6 ever again and pretty much all the sites should warn and force users to switch to much better alternatives like Fire Fox, Safari and Chrome web browsers.

http://www.bringdownie6.com/

If you agree and want to contribute to the progress of accessibility and usability on the web paste the following code into your website:

Bahia Trio - Pura Chonta

pedro — Sun, 02 May 2010 11:05:58 -0400

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Willie Colon

pedro — Sun, 02 May 2010 02:33:38 -0400

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NUYORICAN FUNK EXPERIENCE VOL. 1, 2, 3

pedro — Sun, 02 May 2010 01:57:43 -0400

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Drupal 6 Multistep Form Oddities - $form_state empty

pedro — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:47:15 -0400

Interesting link about drupal multi-step forms loading twice problem.

I created a form using drupal's form api or FAPI. The form would load twice on the first submission. The first time the $form_state['storage'] goes empty and the second time is populated. I wanted to use $form_state to store some values and do some checks.

Text list of all countries

pedro — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:19:58 -0500

Very handy simple list of country names. I use this list for country select boxes or drop down boxes all the time.

Make .htaccess files visible in Aptana Studio

pedro — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:01:53 -0500

I was having issues getting the .htaccess file to show up in the files window in Aptana. I went to Window->Preferences but there was no clue about fixing it. But here is the solution.

In the "Navigator" view or "Project Explorer" view, look at the top of the view and you'll see a small triangle/arrow pointing downwards.
Left-click this triangle and select the "Filters..." menu option.
In the resulting popup window, uncheck the ".* resources" filter. Once this has been applied all .* files such as .htaccess will be shown

Fixing GD image rotation for Drupal 6 on Ubuntu

pedro — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:37:52 -0500

http://www.realityloop.com/blog/2009/05/24/fixing-gd-image-rotation-drup...

Thanks a lot for this really good quick fix to gd library in ubuntu.

I modified the first two lines:

deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all deb-src
deb http://packages.dotdeb.org stable all

I also noticed that the /etc/apt/sources.lst file in ubuntu is called sources.list

How to reset my Drupal admin password?

pedro — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:17:59 -0500

This is the best php tip I have found for reseting drupal administrator's password.

You will need access to phpMyAdmin or some way to manage your database. Run this query

update users set pass=md5('NEWPASS') where uid = 1;

I found the info here:
http://kb.siteground.com/article/How_to_reset_my_Drupal_admin_password.html

Remove or disable style sheets for single node on Drupal

pedro — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:09:57 -0400

I wanted to make one of the pages in my site look and feel completely different than the rest of the site. I wanted to use a different style sheet css file for this page and also didn't want to override all the existing styles.

I found a very good post about it on http://drupal.org/node/258756