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Recently I was looking for a way to add small calendar icons to the posts on my Drupal site. There are a number of solutions out there for drupal, but the ones I found all used icons, which was an approach I was trying to avoid.  Here is a good example for drupal using icons.

Finally, I found some examples for wordpress that were pure html+css without any images. I have taken that example and drupal-fied it. When done, you will have nice calendar icons that show the current date of the post, and a flexible way of including the icons anywhere you would like.

The end result:

Read on for the instructions.

I recently struggled mightily with what I thought should be an easy problem.  I had an image in flex and wanted to be able to pan around it and zoom in and out.  

It turns out that a lot of people have a problem with this task, because how the scrollbars in flex keep track of where they are, and how flex handles the origin of a zoom operation.  Read on for details.

As I wrote here, QCubed is a full featured and productive PHP framework that I use often. I'd like to share with you a customization that I did to allow the easy conversion of QCubed objects into serialized JSON representations.

I want to share some code that I wrote as a technology demonstration about a year ago.  It's a simple mind map program that runs in a web browser and written in javascript using a library called processing.js

The demo is quite simple, and not usable as a full application, but was useful for me to test out a few concepts.  I have since moved on and ported this code to other platforms and will be releasing the results of that shortly.  Read on for a quick background of processing.js and the source code and link to my demo mind map.

UPDATE: I've written a new version of this article that should be followed instead of this slightly-dated version.  

I've recently taken another look at tinyMCE integration in Drupal. I used to use tinyMCE on all my sites, but have migrated most of my editing to the desktop. This is a short article on how to get Drupal, the wysiwyg module, the tinyMCE editor, and the javascript SyntaxHighlighter library all integrated together.

There are several online guides on how to get these components to work together, but none of them were complete or up to date with the latest versions of all the components.

I will assume you have drupal installed already. These instructions were done on version 6.10, but should work on any recent 6.x version.