I am a fan of Komodo edit because it is simple and fast and i just love the toolbox.

I use doit.im to keep track of my task/todo lists and they have a good android app, desktop app and more. But most of the time i am programming so to quickly add a task i created a toolbox "New Command" to really quickly add tasks.

The command is: c:\curl\doit %(ask:task title:)

At work we have a really nice system to update our OTAP street, it uses rsync and some other stuff. But for home development i always used tools like filezilla or some other ftp client, but after a day development you never know which files are updated so you just upload everything again. but there is a better solution, rsync for windows.

First download rsync:
http://www.rsync.net/resources/binaries/cwRsync_3.1.0_Installer.zip

Currently i am working on my own, lightweight cms solution for really small websites. I have tryed pureedit that has some nice features but missing a page tree. And i tryed Frog cms that doen’t work with content types (for example news items or blog items) in a way i would like.

So i started my own branch of pureEdit and i am currently merging it with frog cms’s option to handle pages.

Jesus how complex can it be!  For our hyves/facebook gadget we needed to fetch some json from our website. After getting the < don't be evil' > message for a while we figured it out.

Currently we are working on a Hyves module for Drupal at eFocus. We are building this for a community website that will be released in 2 weeks. If we are finished with the community we will add the finished plugin to the drupal plugin database.

Drupal comes with a default “templating” system called php. It’s handy to use php in the templates but i thinks it’s ugly. So i started using the smarty engine and it took me a while to get used to it.

To get you started i will add some ideas to make templating with the smarty engine allot simpler.

In template.php you can add the function smarty_engine_preprocess(&$vars) you can use this function to add variables to use in the smarty templates.

For example:
$vars[‘page’] = arg(1);

Pfew took me a while to get it right, when a anonymous user needs to store session data you need to have a anonymous user installed in the user table. I don’t know why but my drupal install is not doing this by default. There is a anonymous user present but it has an id>0.

Here is some more info:

http://drupal.org/node/315830
http://drupal.org/node/353428

De smartbuttons implementatie van hyves kan anders. het kan simpeler net zoals twitter via een link, hier staat beschreven hoe je dit kan doen. De werking is gewoon te complex, misschien prima voor html noobs die een knopje willen maar ik wil als developer zelf bepalen waar en hoe iets geopend word en wat voor een plaatje er voor de knop wordt gebruikt.

Dus nadat ik eindelijk de url had heb ik even uitgezocht wat je er mee kan. Eigenlijk hetzelfde als de twitter status update.

http://www.hyves.nl/hyvesconnect/smartbutton?title=titel+invoer&body=bod...

Ben nu sinds 2 weken met drupal gestart en ben blij verrast. Heb 2 boeken aangeschaft om mee te starten Pro Drupal Dev en Module Dev en daar kom ik nu aardig mee uit de voeten.