Nederdev : web and Drupal stuff

The Drupal devroom schedule has just been published and it seems that my proposal has been accepted. On February 8, around 16:15, I will be doing a talk about Taxonomy. Are you a newcomer to Drupal and don't know what Taxonomy is or do you find it overwhelming? Are you a more advanced user, but do you still struggle when trying to categorise your site's content? Are you... Wait, you should all be there, because there will be something interesting for everyone!

Can't wait to see you at FOSDEM!

Drupal 6 features new methods for making your site multilingual. Content language can be defined by a path prefix (example.com/nl/about for a Dutch about page) or by a domain (example.nl/about for the same page). However, lots of people think this is not flexible enough. They want users to be able to use an interface language of their choice, independent of the content language. I'm one of those people, so I decided to take a shot.

I am pleased to say that once again Drupal will be present at FOSDEM, held at February 7 and 8. We (as in the Drupal project) have been appointed a dev room for Sunday, between 9 and 5 o'clock GMT+1.

People may now propose or request talks at groups.drupal.org. I have proposed a talk about Taxonomy: the differences between conventional categorisation and Taxonomy, the differences between Drupal releases and how core and contributed modules may be used to apply, manipulate and browse it.

Last week I released Extesea. In spite of what you might think, Extesea is no pill, powder or fluid, but it does make you feel better!

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Op 31 oktober 2008 verzorgen Bèr Kessels en Erik Stielstra een Drupal kennismakingsworkshop tijdens de Drupal gebruikersbijeenkomst op de Avans Hogeschool te Breda. Tijdens deze workshop zal met Drupal een persoonlijke blog worden gebouwd.

31 oktober is het weer zo ver: de volgende DrupalJam vindt plaats! Deze keer reizen we af naar de Avans Hogeschool in Breda.

You will probably speak and write a language that's written left to right. In fact, most languages are written that way. I think it would be an accurate guess to say that a lot of software doesn't support bi-directional text, because it was developed in a Western country or at least a country where they use a left-to-right language. This is the cause for a relatively large problem: this kind of software is unusable. What can we do about it?

A few weeks ago Erik Stielstra started an issue to improve Header Image's help section. The two of us spent some time on one of his ideas: dynamic help. Our goal was to create a list of configuration steps that are important to set up Header Image. All steps that weren't executed yet would have to be marked in some way.

Most designers will already know the famous Son of Suckerfish menus. Suckerfish is a full proof solution for creating drop-down menus that work in all major browsers. It uses a tiny piece of Javascript to mimic the :hover pseudo-class for IE and everything else you need is just some CSS for your menu's good looks.

Veel designers zullen de bekende Son of Suckerfish menu's wel kennen. Suckerfish is een beproefde oplossing om drop-downmenu's te maken die in alle browsers werken. Het bestaat uit een klein stukje Javascript om de :hover pseudo-class te imiteren voor IE en voor de rest heb je alleen nog CSS nodig voor de daadwerkelijke weergave van je menu.