The Elegant Chaos Blog

My Autolink module has now been updated to work with Drupal 4.7.

For the uninitiated, here’s an excerpt from the read me file:

The Autolink module saves users from having to manually enter links for commonly used URLs.

The module scans posts for a set of terms. Any term found is optionally replaced with some other text, and then automatically linked to its corresponding URL.

The module uses Drupal’s built in taxonomy feature, so you can organize your terms in a Drupal vocabulary. Autolink terms are represented with the taxonomy terms in the autolink vocabulary. The descriptions are used to provide the URL that the term should link to.

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May 20, 2006

I’ve just upgraded this server to use the latest version of Drupal.

Please let me know if you notice any glitches!

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Tom Smith and I were just discussing Applescript, and we just realised... it's a read-only language!

 It's easy to read, but near-impossible to write, due to the weird and shifting syntax caused by the interaction of the various applications you're trying to script.

 

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April 12, 2006

One little GDC note in passing - I noticed a surprisingly high number of folks with Apple laptops. I did an ad-hoc survey by walking from one end of the convention centre to the other, counting non-apple laptops and resetting to zero when I saw an Apple one. One average I got to about 6. A ratio of 6:1 isn’t bad - definitely larger than Apple’s alleged market share.

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The uk-mac-dev mailing list, which Richard Buckle and I organise, has affiliated itself with Cocoa Heads, to form a London Cocoa Programmers’ Group.

Effectively we’re still meeting at the same place and same time (second Monday of each month, 19:30, at Lord Moon of the Mall, Whitehall), but the two groups have enough overlap that it seems sensible to combine our efforts.

Next meeting is tonight - feel free to join us!

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