Every now and then a customer comes to me with a lot of JPEG formated files that need to be optimized for online use. The main reason for optimizing them is to use them online, or to burn them to a DVD that doesn't require them to be on top quality. I do that often when creating static web-sites that live inside the DVD and are given to visitors on seminars.

There is a command line tool available under Linux that allows you to optimize all images in a given directory with a very simple command. Say hello to jpegoptim.

Recently me and my partner submitted a project application for a module that handles the communication of Drupal Commerce and Greek Banks. 4 months later we are almost regretting it!

How could this happen? Why did this happen? And most of all, is this even possible in the Drupal world???

Translating Drupal is easier nowdays than it was two years ago. Gábor Hojtsy has helped a lot and LDO is a really cool platform for translating Drupal.

But what happens when you need to translate things on your site? Things not available through the "Translate Interface" of i8n?
One such thing is the Allowed values list in CCK Fields. The solution is really easy and is done by using a few easy lines of PHP code.

I've been working with a photographer lately... again! Many of my clients are photographers so this wasn't a surprise for me.
Photographers have a special way of observing things, especially when it comes to design! So he naturally asked about using his favorite fonts on his brand-new site. You guessed it, he wasn't talking about web-fonts.

The graph that follows proves what we've 

I've been using Drush for a long time, but I never tried Drush Make until now. Drush Make is an addon to Drush that allows you to build a website from a .make file downloading required files from various sources. Drush make will parse the .make file and will follow all directions in it. The readme file of drush make explains its capabilities in great detail:

Downloading Drupal core, as well as contrib modules from drupal.org.

Έτυχε πριν λίγο να δω την ιστοσελίδα μιας εταιρίας που φτιάχνει ιστοσελίδες, δηλαδή την ίδια δουλειά με εμένα. Δεν έκατσα να διαβάσω όλα τους τα κείμενα ούτε να δω αν δίνουν κάτι παραπάνω στο hosting από αυτό που συνηθίζεται στην αγορά. Ξέρω ότι πάνω κάτω όλοι τις ίδιες παροχές κάνουμε. Είδα όμως τον τιμοκατάλογό τους και πρόσεξα ότι (όπως πολλοί άλλοι) χρεώνουν τον πελάτη με την σελίδα!

A few months ago Dimkas designed my new logo, the superhero guy you see on my page. A logo that definately makes people think of power and comics.

Suddenly HTML 5 publishes its logo today. A logo that makes people think... the same things!