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Recently we’ve nice fonts on web pages like Google Fonts and other web fonts. Take this case, you have to set two divs to the same height. One (div.funny) has some text with Google Fonts, the other is empty. On Chrome console you type something like: Div.very and div.funny are now at the same height. …
Today I started one of the less motivating activities in Python 2.x: encoding. In Python 3 unicode will be everywhere, but as of the 2.6 version I’ve on one of the server I have to endure. Objective: get data from a UTF-8 encoded json and print a nice PDF. Tools: json, urllib2, fpdf, cgi What …
I’m working on a project that has two hearts: a Django for a custom CRM with thousands of imported users, and Drupal, where those users should login. This howto apply on: Drupal 7.x (slave) Django 1.5 (master) There are many single/centralized sign-on solutions around, like OpenID, OAuth CAS and external services like SecurePass to do the …
I had a bad morning trying to repair my Cygwin installation from a virtualenv mess. It’s time to get a Debian and install it on a Virtualbox for my new django project! Windows: host Debian: guest Choosing the distro: what I want Python 2.6 Django 1.4 Apache + Mysql I’m a Debian fan from years …
I don’t use Joomla, but sometimes a friend or a colleague of mine ask me some tips. My answer could be: in Drupal it will take 5 minutes. Since I’m very open-minded, today instead of replying in that awkward way I try to found an alternative to a very useful module for Drupal called Webform. …
There’s an event I cannot handle on jQuery: the Firefox autocomplete on textarea. If you have to use the keyup event for a string match on textarea content, you have to exclude autocompletion, that is out of keyup logic. To do this, simply add: $(‘#myelement’).attr(‘autocomplete’, ‘off’); to your jQuery. Autocomplete will be disabled and the …
Here an easy way to search and replace each occurrence a group of characters (in this case underscore and minus) with another (in this case a space) on a specified element (in this case each A), using Jquery javascript library. $(“a”).each(function() { $(this).html($(this).html().replace(/[_-]/g,” “)); }); The first argument passed on replace is a regex, if …
I’m trying drupal 6.x from some weeks ago. On Drupal 5.x, I’ve used Greybox Redux module to display HTML content on a Javascript popup window. On 6.x, where Greybox isn’t available, I try successfully Lightbox v2. I use this module for images on many sites: syntax to display HTML on a popup IFRAME changes slightly: …
*nix command of the day: diff -Naur old new > new.patch Where “old” and “new” are files or directories to patch. Example (a Drupal patch for IDs duplication): $ patch -p0<fapi-5.x-dupe-id_111719-151.patch patching file includes/form.inc $ Creating patch for Drupal: diff -up original.php new.php > filename.patch another example: diff -up path/to/file/example.module path/to/file/exampleNew.module > mypatchname.patch See also: …
