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Current state of the Cape to Cairo Railway 1 Aug 2013 | 12:53 am
In the late 19th century, the British-South-African personality Cecil Rhodes dreamed of a complete, uninterrupted railway stretching from Cape Town, South Africa, all the way to Cairo, Egypt. During R...
Money: the ongoing evolution 10 Apr 2013 | 02:55 am
In this article, I'm going to solve all the monetary problems of the modern world. Oh, you think that's funny? I'm being serious. Alright, then. I'm going to try and solve them. Money is a concept, ...
Configuring Silex (Symfony2) and Monolog to email errors 29 Mar 2013 | 08:56 pm
There's a pretty good documentation page on how to configure Monolog to email errors in Symfony2. This, and all other documentation that I could find on the subject, works great if: (a) you're using t...
Show a video's duration with Media: YouTube and Computed Field 28 Mar 2013 | 07:57 am
I build quite a few Drupal sites that use embedded YouTube videos, and my module of choice for handling this is Media: YouTube, which is built upon the popular Media module. The Media: YouTube module ...
Natural disaster risk levels of the world's largest cities 13 Mar 2013 | 05:05 pm
Every now and again, Mother Nature reminds us that despite all of our modern technological and cultural progress, we remain mere mortals, vulnerable as always to her wrath. Human lives and human infra...
Rendering a Silex (Symfony2) app via Drupal 7 25 Jan 2013 | 09:39 am
There's been a lot of talk recently regarding the integration of the Symfony2 components, as a fundamental part of Drupal 8's core system. I won't rabble on repeating the many things that have already...
Node.js itself is blocking, only its I/O is non-blocking 15 Nov 2012 | 03:58 am
I've recently been getting my feet wet, playing around with Node.js (yes, I know – what took me so long?). I'm having a lot of fun, learning new technologies by the handful. It's all very exciting. I...
Batch updating Drupal 7 field data 7 Nov 2012 | 09:04 pm
On a number of my recently-built Drupal sites, I've become a fan of using the Computed Field module to provide a "search data" field, as a Views exposed filter. This technique has been documented by o...
How compatible are the world's major religions? 16 Oct 2012 | 10:47 pm
There are a tonne of resources around that compare the world's major religions, highlighting the differences between each. There are some good comparisons of Eastern vs Western religions, and also num...
How close is the European Union to being a federation? 28 Aug 2012 | 11:12 am
There has been considerable debate over the past decade or so, regarding the EU and federalism. Whether the EU is already a federation. Whether the EU is getting closer to being a federation. Whether ...
