Drupal 8 is just days away from stable release and I have finally had a chance to play.
It's a full rewrite so lots of changes, the admin interface seems much cleaner.
This is a short note on attaching libraries in a custom theme.
JavaScript and Stylesheets get attached via libraries which are defined in the {theme-name}.libraries.yml file.
which could look something like:

global-styling:
version: VERSION
css:
base:
css/theme/blocks.css: {}
code-highlight:
version: 1.x
css:


The Drupal Downunder site for the conference in January 2011, is live now. It has been evolving over the last couple of months while we build up to what looks to be a very exciting conference. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the people involved in organising the conference and website.

Tonight I am giving a presentation to the Brisbane Drupal user group on jQuery. I plan to cover some of the early tools I developed well before jQuery was around, such as the CSS Generator, which is about 7 years old now. Then look at adding AJAX functionality via jQuery to the Best Reply module.

Water by Design website brings together knowledge, experiences and expertise in water sensitive urban design (WSUD) and sustainable urban water management (SUWM) to assist the land development industry and government make the transition towards smarter water management.

I have released my first Drupal module, best reply. It's a module developed for CSSCreator that allows authors to mark a comment to their topic as the best reply.

Hopefully people will find the module useful for their sites. Currently it is only available for version 5 of Drupal.

The hardest thing about releasing it was trying to grasp the cvs branch and tag structure used at Drupal.

Last weekend I flew down to Sydney for DrupalCamp Australia 2008. Everyone takes away something different from events like this apart from a t-shirt. For me I met great people with similar interests, and gained the motivation to improve my skills.
All the presentation I saw were excellent, the most memorable for me were Unit Testing by lyricnz, CVS Patches by Jaza, Panels 2.x Jeff, and Maintaining Drupal with Git by Gordon.

When developing the APSystems website the client wanted the banner image to zoom into focus when the page loads. Firstly I was thinking of doing it in Flash, my Flash skills are pretty rusty so I came up with a method of doing it via jQuery's animate effect.

One of the many things taken for granted when working with Drupal is that ability to have dynamic layouts. Different layouts for different pages, based on the blocks assigned to regions for the page.

Variables are set during page construction that can tell you how many columns are required. Which in combination with the page.tpl.php and your stylesheet can provide any number of layouts.