Week of August 31, 2009 thru September 6, 2009

It is not impossible to make you drupal website 10x faster just by some tuning work. If your drupal site is slow, here are some tips that may speed up your drupal site:Read more >>

Many books on programming language ruby have been published during these years. Although it is a good thing, it also is true that picking one from these books is becoming hard and hard. Here I will list 10 of the books on ruby for beginners, and try to tell the differences between them, and hope by doing so, help beginner decide which one suits him or her.

(update: a book list for advanced ruby learners)Read more >>

Today, for a website, good contents may not guarantee web traffic. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plays an important role in website development nowadays. Luckily for drupal developers, there are helpful drupal modules that will help search engines ranking, and here are 10 of the most important drupal modules for SEO:Read more >>

I want the taxonomy/term/tid pages list nodes in alphabetical order in drupal 6. By default, nodes are listed in order of the created time. I knew I can achieve my goal with Views module, but it was a small project, so I tried a duty ( and simple) way. Here is how:Read more >>

How to do syntax highlight codes on drupal? The answer is the GeSHi Filter module. This module uses the third-party PHP library Generic Syntax Highlighter (GeSHi ), supporting more than 130 programming languages ( including ASP, C, C++, C#, CSS, Drupal source code, Javascript, MySQL, Objective C, Perl, PHP, Python, Rails, Ruby, Visual Basic, XML and more). Here I will teach how to install and configure this syntax highlighting module on drupal 6 step by step.Read more >>