Archive for April, 2010

Making AJAX Applications Crawlable

Making AJAX Applications Crawlable: http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/index.html

Is it true that in Drupal you can only overwrite core functions that start with ‘theme_’?

Is it true that in #Drupal you can only overwrite core functions that start with ‘theme_’? Wouldn’t want to hack the core…

Drupal default themes suffering from divitis and classitis

Checking #Drupal theming and boy, those default themes are suffering from chronic divitis/classitis! So bloated that it makes me miss #MODx. Luckily the output can be customised in template.php.

Building frontend code with Ant

Recently I’ve been checking various ways for optimising frontend code. In Professional JavaScript for Web Developers (2nd Edition), Nicholas C. Zakas speaks about best practices for deploying websites in production (among other good things). Having a solid build process for deployment saves both time and bandwidth, and helps automating repetitive tasks.