Event Management with Drupal, Introduction
A few months ago, I joined the Toastmasters. Toastmasters is an international nonprofit organization that helps its members to train their public speaking skills (which is something I am rather bad...
View ArticleXBBCode 6.x-1.1.1 is out
This is just a notice of a bugfix update to XBBCode, my light-weight stack-based parser for customizable and extensible BBCode in Drupal.I have been developing the module for two years now and using it...
View Article"Don't want your stinking hook"
A few days ago, Michelle blogged to announce Author Pane (a glue module) and took that occasion to complain about the circumstances that made it necessary. In a nutshell: Some modules could work very...
View ArticlePorting XBBCode to Drupal 7
Well, as you can see, the NaNoWriMo didn't really work out. Astonishingly, it turns out that a day has only twenty-four hours.However, I have managed to devote an afternoon this weekend to porting my...
View ArticleXBBCode 7.x-0.9 released
I've spent a few more days improving and cleaning up the new version. One thing I have managed to make loads better is the handler settings form: Instead of a table with simple checkboxes and weight...
View ArticleInstall Drupal 7 with a script
The seventh version of Drupal has greatly improved the installation process once more. Among other changes, the installer has become more user-friendly, but the best part is under the hood, and...
View ArticleBuilding a better Tag-Parser
The ProblemIf you read the code of my Extensible BBCode module for [[Drupal]], you'll notice that my tag parsing algorithm is kind of complex. In two steps, the tags are first "paired" (inserting a...
View ArticleBuilding a better Tag-Parser, part 2
As I concluded in the first part, one problem remains with the strict "inner-tag-first" evaluation of code (which roughly equates to a Left-Right-Root traversal of the code tree). Namely, some tags,...
View ArticleExtensible BBCode for Drupal 7
I'm happy to announce that my extensible BBCode module XBBCode is now ported to Drupal 7. I last worked on (and wrote about) this module in April while writing a new parsing engine for it.Although the...
View ArticleSwitching to Git
I migrated my SVN repository to Git yesterday and moved the XBBCode project to GitHub Drupal.org yesterday. The git migration should make it much easier to manage multiple branches for different Drupal...
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