I recently developed a web application that needed a transparent layer to cover some parts of the site, to prevent mouse over’s and click events triggering on the underlying elements.

This worked as expected in all browsers except Internet Explorer.

After a bit of research and testing it turns out that IE does not trap events if an element is transparent!?

The work around was to give the element a background colour and then set its opacity to 0.9, which makes it almost transparent and able to trap events.

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.

© 2001, the above authors
this declaration may be freely copied in any form,
but only in its entirety through this notice.

Freenet was created as a service to the end user and a low cost method for businesses to advertise both socially and one to one marketing strategies.

The concept of Freenet includes advertising at the top of each page served inside a web browser as a way of funding broadband at no cost to the end clients but without being malicious or “hard to live with”.

Visit www.myfreenet.com.au for more details.

PHP 5.4.0 is available.
This release is a major leap forward in the 5.x series,
and includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

The key features of PHP 5.4.0 include:

• New language syntax including Traits an a shortened array syntax
• Improved performance and reduced memory consumption
• Support for multibyte languages now available in all builds of PHP at the flip of a run-time switch
• Built-in webserver in CLI mode to simplify development workflows and testing
• Cleaner code base thanks to the removal of multiple deprecated language features
• Many more improvements and fixes

Changes that affect compatibility:

• Register globals, magic quotes and safe mode were removed
• The break/continue $var syntax was removed
• The ini option allow_call_time_pass_reference was removed
• The PHP default_charset is now “UTF-8″ within the distributed php.ini files, but still defaults to “”

PHP 5.4 will be the last series to support Windows XP and Windows 2003. We will not provide binary packages for these Windows versions after PHP 5.4.

NORAD Tracks Santa is an annual Christmas-themed entertainment program, which has existed since 1955, produced under the auspices of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Every year on Christmas Eve, “NORAD Tracks Santa” purports to follow Santa Claus as he leaves the North Pole and delivers presents to children around the world.

http://www.noradsanta.org/

by Clement Clarke Mooreor Henry Livingston

“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night.”

In the book The Pragmatic Programmer, one of the software development tips is:

‘select’ Isn’t Broken
It is rare to find a bug in the OS or the compiler, or even a third-party product or library. The bug is most likely in the application.

The individual I worked with was a talented and quick to learn developer, but I was surprised how often during his first Drupal project he looked for issues outside his code.

Memorable comments where “I can make it work, but I need to hack Drupal core”, “I need to change the encoding of the database” and “There is a patch for Drupal 7 that will fix this”.

The intern was a good developer, he had skill and passion, and he just needed some more experience.  The Drupal CMS is used by thousands of web sites, the company we worked for had hundreds of Drupal sites running the same or similar configurations.  There was a good chance that Drupal was not broken.

Therefore ‘Terms & Conditions’ appears as ‘Terms & Conditions’ in the menu.

The following bit of PHP code fixes this problem:

/* Fix jump menu options encoding */
function hook_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {
  switch ($form_id) {
    case 'ctools_jump_menu':
      foreach ($form['jump']['#options'] as $key => $value) {
        $form['jump']['#options'][$key] = html_entity_decode($value, ENT_QUOTES);
      }
  }
}

function hook_views_pre_execute(&$view) {
  switch($view->name) {
    case 'Services2':
      $search = array('ORDER BY');
      $replace = array('GROUP BY node_data_field_parent_service.field_parent_service_nid ORDER BY');
      $view->build_info['query'] = str_replace($search,
                                               $replace,
                                               $view->build_info['query']);
    break;
  }
}

The content was to be added periodically by the company in the form of training courses.
I created a new Content Type of Course and a template file node—course.tpl.php as shown below.

roles;
  $show = FALSE;
  $isAdmin = in_array('administrator', $roles);
  $isEditor = in_array('Editor', $roles);
  $isMember = in_array('Member', $roles);
  if ($isMember || $isAdmin || $isEditor) {
    $show = TRUE;
  }
  ?>
>
  
    Sorry, you are not authorised to access this page. If you have been given access details for this course, please enter them below.', 'warning'); ?>
    
  
>
      
    

  

Once a visitor to the site is logged in and if they belong to the Role Member, they see the content, if not they get a login form.

The results can be seen in the following image: