KoolyM - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Drupal (Score 1) 287

by KoolyM on Monday December 05 2011, @10:08AM (#38265066) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: One Framework To Rule Them All?

It can, but if you're building web apps instead of web sites with a little custom functionality it will make your life needlessly difficult.http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/12/04/2227209/ask-slashdot-one-framework-to-rule-them-all#

Comment: Re:Shoot the Schoolmaster CIO (Score 5, Insightful) 89

by KoolyM on Saturday October 01 2011, @07:04AM (#37575900) Attached to: Battle For Open Standards In Dutch Public Education

It's more subtle than that. The Dutch schoolmaster CIO only has two pieces of software to choose from, one of which is a bunch of outdated Windows desktop apps that are terrible to work with and the one TFA is about, which is a fairly decent set of web apps that unfortunately have never worked on anything but windows (first they used all sorts of ActiveX components, now it's a bunch of Silverlight crap, apparently). So there really is very little the schoolmaster CIO can do, and given the lack of options, he probably made the best possible choice.

Comment: Re:Drupal 6? (Score 1) 21

by KoolyM on Wednesday April 13 2011, @03:20PM (#35811172) Attached to: Book Review: Drupal 6 Theming Cookbook

Technically speaking, Drupal 6 does not have elements like "Left Column" and "Right Column". If you base your themes on the Zen base theme, you can have whatever "column" you want. I'm assuming (I'm not a themer with in depth knowledge on the subject) this is because Drupal 6, too, has a notion of regions. There's probably a lot you can learn from this book that will still be applicable to Drupal 7 (the differences aren't huge). That said, I don't see why they didn't just do a quick rewrite to incorporate the main changes and slap a Drupal 7 title on the book, the way they did with the Pro Drupal Development book.

Komodo Spawns New Open Source IDE Project 1

Submitted by techoon on Sunday September 09 2007, @09:10AM

techoon writes "Development tools vendor ActiveState is opening up parts of its Komodo IDE (define) in a new effort called Open Komodo. The Open Komodo effort will take code from ActiveStates freely available, but not open source, Komodo Edit product and use it as a base for the new open source IDE. The aim is to create a community and a project that will help Web developers to more easily create modern Web-based applications."

Thin Water Acts Like a Solid 138

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday April 25 2007, @04:17PM
from the mash-downs dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "What happens when you compress water in a nano-sized space? According to Georgia Tech physicists, water starts to behave like a solid. "The confined water film behaves like a solid in the vertical direction by forming layers parallel to the confining surface, while maintaining it's liquidity in the horizontal direction where it can flow out," said one of the researchers. "Water is a wonderful lubricant, but it flows too easily for many applications. At the one nanometer scale, water is a viscous fluid and could be a much better lubricant," added another one."

Canada to Ban Incandescent Bulbs by 2012

Submitted by Radon360 on Wednesday April 25 2007, @04:14PM

Radon360 writes "Canada will ban the sale of inefficient incandescent light bulbs by 2012 as part of a plan to cut down on emissions of greenhouse gases. Canada is the second country in the world to announce such a ban. Australia said in February it would get rid of all incandescent bulbs by 2009. The ban will not apply to uses where incandescent bulbs are still the only practical alternative."

First earth-like exoplanet discovered

Submitted by timrichardson on Wednesday April 25 2007, @03:11PM

timrichardson writes "Early on April 25, astronomers discovered the first planet outside the solar system that seems earth-like."

Review: InDesign CS3->

From feed by macworldfeed on Wednesday April 25 2007, @02:52PM

Despite a few wrinkles and omissions, InDesign remains the most capable page layout software available. The more I use this new version, the more I appreciate the subtle retooling throughout, not just the obvious new features. InDesign CS3 is an upgrade that you'll grow to like.

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What is cancer?

Submitted by

gerexs

on Wednesday April 25 2007, @04:06AM

gerexs writes "Cancer is a kind of disease characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these cells to invade other tissues, either by direct growth into its neighbor tissue or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis. A process called staging helps in assessing the prognosis and in determining the most appropriate treatment to the unrestrained growth of cancer cells. It is used by physicians to describe the extent of spread of a cancer. In this system, cancer is being classified into four stages. Stage I — there's no involvement of lymph nodes and no spread of the cancer from metastases or its original site. Stage IV — the advance cancer, with both distant metastases and lymph node involvement."

Six year old girl hacks UK Parliament

Submitted by on Tuesday March 27 2007, @06:21AM

An anonymous reader writes "http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1368.html A BBC investigation shows how a six year old girl was able to circumvent security in one of the most heavily guarded buildings in the UK, the House of Commons, and hack the computer of an MP."