Bevan Rudge | JavaScript and web technologist

Changing Young People's Misperceptions about Computer Science

8 December 2008 - 10:41am — Bevan

A number of recent events – including a recent interview with Tim Bell, creator of Computer Science Unplugged, and the closure of Hagley School's futuristic College of Computing for the 2009 academic year – have motivated me to want to do something about the lack of interest in

Tags Vocabularies Without The Pitfalls

3 December 2008 - 10:10pm — Bevan

Drupal's tagging vocabularies are really useful when webmasters and admins can not anticipate what categories or terms content authors and editors are going to need. The pitfall however, is that it is too easy for content editors to make a mess of the vocabulary by creating duplicate terms that are spelled wrong, similar to or synonymous of existing terms. And a "dirty" vocabulary such as this can be rather difficult to clean up and can be a real problem if content needs to be structured.

Tags Vocabularies Without The Pitfalls

3 December 2008 - 10:10pm — Bevan

Using PHP On Drupal Settings Pages

12 November 2008 - 4:46pm — Bevan

It is generally recognized that CMSes are about separating the content from it's appearance and the logic that manipulates the content. In Drupal, it is good practice to maintain code in files which can be version-controlled (with subversion for example), and keep just the dynamic content and data in the database. In other words, executable code should not go in the database.
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