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Hootsuite is the home of the ow.ly links and the little linkbar that goes with them. It's a web application which adds useful functions to the twitter user experience. It's not so strong however on automation like auto-follow.

I've been having a headscratcher on a website for awhile and just found what the problem is. PROBLEM: When cron.php is requested, instead of running cron.php it redirects to some page on the site. This means the cron hooks aren't executed because instead some other page gets loaded. Drupal does a lot of maintenance stuff in the cron hooks, so it's bad news if they don't get executed.

Documentation of the normal setup for cron.php: http://drupal.org/cron .. I had done all that, and their troubleshooting section did not cover the problem I had.

I saw this tweet "How cool is tweetscript??" and decided to take a look. I've done a bit with a Groovy script to automatically tweet contents of an RSS feed, and I've been thinking it would be useful to have a more comprehensive twitter toolset. Unfortunately tweetscript isn't what I was thinking about but it may be useful as it is. It offers you tools to manage your lists of followers, scheduled tweets, and to update the design of your twitter account.

MAMP makes it pretty darn simple to do web development on a Mac. While Mac OS X comes bundled with Apache and PHP, MAMP bundles together the latest versions of both along with MySQL. It "installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer" and is completely self-contained. You can run MAMP alongside the Apache that's built-in to Mac OS X, you can remove MAMP at any time, etc. It's very convenient and flexible.

Last week Apple introduced the latest iteration of the MacBookPro and they happily included a 13" model. It's a tempting machine so I want to take a look at the likely happiness inducing features, and it makes for an interesting comparison with the MacBook model. What is it about the MacBookPro which is worth the extra bucks to buy one over the same size MacBook?

Short version is the MBP is a bit faster, can have more memory, and has a built-in SD slot. Seems to me worth the cost.

Amazon Item: 

Apple MacBook MB466LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop

Apple MacBook Pro MB990LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop

Maybe nobody else will find themselves in the situation that's in my hands right now. During the upgrade of this site from Drupal 5 to 6 the book navigation structure got screwed up. Drupal's book content is a tree structured set of pages which are loosely thought of as a "book". It's not really a book, but still the tree structure is a useful arrangement. I've published a lot of pages using the book structure and it was alarming that the structure got lost during the upgrade.

On my Drupal-based forum site there was a problem - On Internet Explorer the page layout was horribly broken. The content, instead of laying out in a 2 or three column arrangement, had each section of the right/center/left columns one after another. It was as if some of the style sheets simply hadn't loaded. Fortunately you could still use the site meaning missing style sheets didn't interfere with usability except that the site was horrible to look at and probably turned off any Internet Explorer visitors.

Tonight we wish to begin examining the sad story of one of the Doctor's companions, Adric. You may already know the Doctor encountered an E-Space phenomenon while answering a summons to return Romana to Gallifrey. It is thought they were purposely avoiding a return to Gallifrey, especially as Romana chose not long after to completely shirk her responsibility to return to Gallifrey.

I've been using vonage for several years primarily so I could make long phone calls w/o killing the anytime minutes on my cell phone. Vonage is a "voice over IP" telephone service (VOIP) and they've been in this business for quite awhile. Their service acts pretty much like a regular telephone but the connection is over the Internet. In my case I had a special router with a telephone jack, and a regular telephone gets plugged into that jack. Upon picking up the phone (like normal) you get a regular dial tone, you key in the phone number etc the same way as a regular telephone line.

Drupal is a very powerful content management system that can also serve as an excellent web application development framework. The features provided by Drupal are very comprehensive, flexible, and there is a large community of excited people supporting its development. Pro Drupal Development is a developers tome worthy of the system it documents.