We had our monthly Hong Kong Drupal User Group meetup last week (thanks to CNNGo.com for the always wonderful venue), and this time it is a little bit different. Jason (jyee at Drupal.org) from Aten Design Group, one of the organizers of the upcoming Denver Drupalcon 2012 and a well known contrib module developer has joined us for the evening, and shared some of his thought on "Using Views Programmatically".

For those of you who missed the presentation, here is a video of the same presentation Jason did back in Drupalcon Colorado 2011:

I recently have started working on a Drupal 7 project creating a comparatively simple brochure website. To my surprises a lot of familiar functions, syntax and platform for simple things have changed dramatically! Certainly many functions and handlers are become easier and simpler to do, however there are a lot of simple procedures gets to be more complicated.

Getting the Taxonomy term in page.tpl.php is one of them.

Drupal 6 - Taxonomy Term using $term object

Back in Drupal 6, Taxonomy terms are embedded in $node object. To print the taxnomy term, all you need to do is get it directly from the $node object:

Before we jump right into Drupal CMS, perhaps we should start why the market is obsessed with designing websites with CMS.

What is CMS? Why CMS?

"CMS" (Content Management System) is THE hip, trendy term on the Internet in 2010s. As elegantly described in Wikipedia, a Web CMS is basically a system that "simplifies the publication of web content to web sites and mobile devices -- in particular, allowing content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files."

Generally speaking, the rise of CMS is due to the huge success of Blog platforms like blogger.com. Ever since the launch of blogger.com in 1999, next thing I know everyone has started publishing on the Internet, and the volume of new content published online exploded in folds ever since.

Just while I was stumbling upon Youtube looking for a few relaxing video clips to spice up my breakfast, I was surprised and super excited that Youtube has finally started rolling out the most wanted feature (of mine) -- viewers can now "expand" the video to window size!

Ok, it might be quite confusing to those who don't usually use the expand feature. "Expand" is a button that locates on the lower right corner of every youtube video (this feature is only available if you are watching the clip on Youtube.com). Once you click on it, it will expand the video clip to the size of your browser window, and change the resolution automatically from 360p to 480p.