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A handy snippet for module developers that use external libraries. Drupal discourages inclusion of such libraries in modules, for good reasons. This, however, makes is hard for admins to install your module. I used hook_requirements to point out how, why and where a certain library can be found.

The admin is then helped with usefull messages: how to fix the problem.

Drupal’s block system is far from ideal. It was designed back in the threecolumn-era, was improved to work beyond three-columns-content-in-middle layouts, but is still unsuited for more complex layouts.

If you want real complex layouts, you will have to turn to Panels, or Panels2. Or so they say.

A client of mine, a large Dutch media company uses Drupal for all its new sites -about four, five each month-, and untill today used panels in these sites.

Together with Morten, one of the best Drupal themers, I will give an introduction in Theming for Drupal-6.

So, if you aer interested in theming for Drupal in general, or Drupal6 in specifics, make sure you pop in at the Drupal-developers room.

Good news. My servermanager and Drupal host, just announced they are moving their infrastructure to PHP5. Entirely. PHP5 is really important if you want a future-proof hoster.

If you are looking for a Dutch host for your Drupal sites, I can advice you either one of the cheaper Vhosts, or, in case you decide to go for more Drupal sites, to mail for a reseller of colocation contract.

I have partnered up with them and give advice about Drupal hosting.

At the first Dutch DrupalJam, I gave my workshop theming
Below, you can find the slideshow and the resources for the live demo, The presentation is Dutch though. You can also find the presentation (and more) on slideshare, so you can re-use, or embed it on your own site.

During the workshop a lot of sites about CSS passed by. Below you find a shortlist of the most important CSS resources.
For a more comprehencive overview, you can see my CSS tag on Simpy.

Nice tip for all the Drupal hackers out there: snipplr code snippets for Drupal. It also has an RSS feed. Obviously, as with any unknown source, one should never ever use these snippets (except when you know PHP well).

Oh, and there is a nice jQuery feed too.