Two days ago I put live the first alpha version.
Feel free to have a first look.

http://www.sweebe.com/

More on sweebe.com on it’s official blog:

http://www.blog.sweebe.com/

root@jazz:/home/andreas-glaser# update-manager -d
warning: could not initiate dbus
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GLib-GIO:ERROR:/build/buildd/glib2.0-2.26.1/gio/gdbusconnection.c:2270:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)
Aborted

Solution

Instead of “update-manager -d” simply use “dbus-launch update-manager -d”

Enjoy!

Required Addons

• Chromifox Basic – Chrome theme for Firefox
• Ominbar – Combines address and searchbar
• Download Statusbar – Displays download statuses in the statusbar

Result

Enjoy!

Especially the new layouts will help newbies to get their heads around Drupal in less time to fully enjoy the endless flexibility and efficiency.

Drupal certainly stood the test of time since it’s release in January 2001 and will definitely experience a boost from this major release.

Google Trends Comparison (Drupal vs Joomla vs Typo3 vs Concrete5)

If you haven’t yet worked with Drupal this is definitely the perfect time to get in touch.

Places all your questions will be answered

• Drupal Community
• Drupal IRC Channel

Personally I’ve been working with Drupal for many years now and developed quite some business websites on it and it gets my recommendation any time. (if you’re not a bloody rookie ;) )

http://drupal.org/

Roots of the REST/SOAP Debate

I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I did.

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mysql -u root -p --default_character_set utf8 NAME_OF_YOUR_DATABASE < mysql_dump_file.sql

The important argument is “–default_character_set utf8” to preserve the encoding.

Enjoy

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ErrorException [ Warning ]: htmlspecialchars() expects at most 3 parameters, 4 given

If Kohana 3 throws this exception, that means that your currently installed PHP version is lower than 5.2.3 .
This can be easily be fixed by updating PHP to the latest stable version (recommended) or by changing one of Kohana (not recommended).

To fix it code wise open following file with your preferred editor

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/system/classes/kohana/html.php

Search for…

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return htmlspecialchars((string) $value, ENT_QUOTES, Kohana::$charset, $double_encode);

… and change it into

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return htmlspecialchars((string) $value, ENT_QUOTES, Kohana::$charset);

Done :)

Theory

We record and save the time (in seconds) of the users first interaction with our website. On every following click we subtract this information with the current time.

Working example

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/* tell php to start a new or resume an existing session */
session_start();
 
/* store time of first user interaction */
if(!isset($_SESSION['session.started'])) {
 $_SESSION['session.started'] = time();
}
 
/* calculate time elapsed since first click */
$onlineTime = time() - $_SESSION['session.started'];
 
/* display online time in various formats */
print 'Seconds: '.$onlineTime;
print "<br />\n".'Minutes:'.floor(($onlineTime / 60));
print "<br />\n".'Hours:'.floor(($onlineTime / 60 / 60));
print "<br />\n".'Days:'.floor(($onlineTime / 60 / 60 / 24));

Enjoy!