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My latest project goes live - Hobbynews.es

manuee — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:53:08 +0000

After two months and a half, the videogames news portal Hobbynews goes live!

It's been a great project to work on, challenging in both timeframe and requirements, but fun because of the Axel Springer team, and the subject of the portal.

I used to read Micromania when I was younger, and it was my great pleasure to work on a project for the company behind this great magazine. They also publish a whole bunch of magazines like Hobbyconsolas, PC Hoy, Auto Bild and others.

My first child is born

manuee — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:51:56 +0000

On the 19th of March, Elyam was born. Weighting 4.16 kg, a healthy boy joins the world.

Hello world!

How to load panel pages from code

manuee — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:56:27 +0000

They will load faster, it's easier for deployment, and you'll be able have them under version control.

We all know that you can load views from code, and it is even recommended. But what about Panels pages? It is also possible. And actually, it's quite easy.

Let's say that you have reached a beta stage for these pages, and you are ready to start having these under version control so you can sleep better at night.

1. Create the module that will load these pages

How to create a panels style plugin

manuee — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:56:51 +0000

Creating panels styles can be very powerful. You can define certain styles for your client to choose from, so they can choose what type of display the panel pane will be like. This way you keep the workflow clean, your code under revision control, your themer gets to keep his sanity, and your concious stays clear.

This article assumes you know about running panels, and more or less what the nomenclature is. You should know also that panels now uses ctools, which is is primarily a set of APIs and tools to improve the developer experience.

So, what we'll be doing here is actually creating a ctools plugin, to implement a new panels style. Sorry if I'm confusing you already, don't worry, it's actually quite straight forward, we want to be able to do this:

How to create a CCK formatter

manuee — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:29:59 +0000

CCK formatters are pieces of code that allow you to render a CCK field content how you want. In Drupal 6 this basicaly means a theme function.

As an example, we will build a formatter for the field type 'nodereference'.
This type of field, which is part of the standard CCK package, allows you to "reference" a node inside another.
The formatter that nodereference has by default, prints a standard link to the referenced node.

Handy new modules

manuee — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:26:00 +0000

Every day a ton of new drupal modules come out. I've found four very handy new drupal modules that have been released lately, mainly nice useability enhancements for the drupal experience.

Contact form blocks

The module makes your core drupal contact forms, available as blocks. Not much you may say, but wait, there is more: contact form categories will be represented by one block per category - now that's handy. You could present different contact forms in your templates per different content types, or whatever you can think of. Nice.
Check it out from the project page, play with it. Go on, you know you want to!

DrupalCon Paris is coming!

manuee — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:02:03 +0000

The next DrupalCon will be in Paris, September 1st - 5th. I hope to see you there!

So, you are coming, right?

I have already bought my ticket, and if you want to save some cash (since you know you are coming anyway), you better hurry up and buy the ticket before July 12th to get the early bird discount.

DrupalCon DC videos

manuee — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:42:11 +0000

Well, If you haven't been living under a rock, you will know that the biggest Drupalcon to date has taken place lately, and if you were able to attend, I really envy you. If, like me, could not get that chance, there are very good news: The conferences were mostly videotaped, and are now on-line!

So the question you should ask is WHERE are they? Good news here also, this page has been regularly been updated as soon as the videos were being uploaded to archive.org. So, start downloading and watching the videos, because there are a ton of very good presentations there!