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Kisah petualang seksi Lara Croft tak lama lagi akan bisa dinikmati para gamer. Namun kali ini, ia tak akan hadir dalam game Tomb Raider.

Seberapa jauhkah sebenarnya penetrasi ponsel ke desa-desa terpencil di Indonesia? Sudah relevankah dengan program 25.000 desa berdering yang dicanangkan Kominfo?

Rumor akan munculnya ponsel dengan kemampuan gaming ala PlayStation kembali merebak. Rumor ini dibarengi dengan kabar Sony akan menyiapkan pesaing iPad.

Apple telah memberikan tanggal pasti kapan iPad mulai tersedia di toko. Termasuk di 9 negara di luar Amerika Serikat. Indonesia termasuk?

I'm pleased to announce that I'll be teaching my first live telecourse on Monday, 29 March, "Setting Up, Customizing Drupal", for Environments for Humans. My three-hour course is in the morning, with Sheena Donnelly teaching "Drupal Theme Building" in the afternoon.

Most Drupal people know me for my Lynda.com video courses. I'm no stranger to live teaching: One of my first jobs was teaching secretaries how to use Radio Shack TRS-80 (!) computers when I was 16. (Yes, I'm that old. ;) ) I presented at a lot of tech conferences during the boom, and later taught real estate courses for City College of San Francisco and a private company.

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After learning about Disqus this week, I became quite enamored of it. Drupal's comment system is swell and all, but I know that I don't have time to set it up as to be as nifty as it could be. So I think it's swell if someone wants to take it off my hands for free. The downside is that if I upgrade to D7, I wouldn't get those swell forthcoming RDF-a comments. But there's a Disqus API, so I can solve that later if it's important to me.

The problem is that having both Disqus and comments enabled makes things confusing. Each post has a link at the bottom with '13 comments 13 comments and 0 Reactions' or something similar. Not swell. I don't want to abandon my existing comments--in particular, my Puppet vs Chef and SPARQL posts got good feedback from their respective communities. The Puppet post is #1 on Google for 'puppet vs chef' largely because the authors of both projects commented there. Hopefully, Disqus would let people track those authors to comments on my site in the future.

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On March 12, 2010, I will be online with the folks from Tek-X giving a webcast on A Developer's Intro to Drupal. If you're just getting your feet wet with Drupal and are still a little confused about hooks, modules, themes, nodes, or even why Drupal isn't (fully) Object-Oriented, then this session is for you.
Tek-X Drupal Webcast

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Inspired by the State of Rob Loach Address, I decided I don't particularly want to let a year go by without blogging, especially considering I don't have the excuse that I'm micro-blogging. So without further ado, here's what I've been up to this month:

• Media module, of course. Though I'm not in the swing I was in January. I've worked some on an experimental browser that allows more FAPI magic than the current one that's a Javascript framework (which is thus largely inaccessible to many Drupal developers, though comes with its own advantages). Other than that, it's just been some code clean up.
• Embedded Media Field now supports RTMP streaming servers. Also, Media: YouTube has been ripped from the dev-2 version of it, and now supports iPhone. (I can't really take credit for either of these new features, other than for committing the patches, but it makes it look like I've actually been working...)
• I started a new blog.

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Ini dia jawaban dari Indosat atas 15 pertanyaan yang paling sering diajukan oleh para pemilik ponsel berbasis platform Android.

Meramaikan pasar ponsel di Tanah Air, Sony Ericsson meluncurkan ponsel berbasis sistem operasi Android dan Symbian. Produk baru Sony Ericsson ini mengusung konsep lekukan tubuh manusia.

Mengenaskan, seorang bayi usia 3 bulan di Korea Selatan meninggal kelaparan karena diabaikan oleh orang tuanya. Ironisnya, ayah dan ibu korban mengabaikan si anak hanya karena sibuk main game.

Kabar tak sedap beredar seputar piranti lunak driver untuk kartu grafis Nvidia. Sebuah kasus telah dilaporkan yang menunjukkan rusaknya kartu grafis akibat kesalahan dari driver 196.75.

Keberadaan desktop diramalkan akan menjadi sesuatu yang tidak relevan lagi. Ramalan tersebut datang dari pihak Google yang percaya bahwa keberadaan desktop akan digusur oleh piranti mobile.

Setelah diajak berpetualang keliling dunia melalui World Adventures, kini EA merilis ekpansi terbaru yang memungkinkan para gamer untuk dapat merintis karir dalam game The Sims 3.

Vendor ponsel Sony Ericsson menganut prinsip 'poligami' sistem operasi. Artinya mereka tidak akan terikat hanya pada satu sistem operasi, melainkan pada banyak sistem operasi untuk dibenamkan dalam ponselnya.

Here's a quick tip for people running multiple Drupal instances on one server: don't run cron for all sites on the same moment but try to spread it.

Suppose I have 5 sites: site1.tld, site2.tld, ... and I want to run cron each 12 hours. I would enter the following using crontab:

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Currently the Migrate module doesn't support full migration of poll nodes. When the poll module is enabled, you can create a content set mapping for a poll node, but you are unable to set the poll status (active or closed) and, more importantly, you can't migrate the poll choices.

Using the hook_migrate_prepare_node() and hook_migrate_complete_node() hooks, I was able to migrate all choices for each node, along with all existing votes stored.

In the example below, I am migrating polls from a Joomla MySQL database and I am using a poll content set which handles the core node field mapping, including the question text.

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To better tag content in multilingual versions of Managing News

We just added support for Yahoo! Placemaker's geo-recognition service to Managing News. This is an optional replacement for the default place-term lookup feature and can be enabled and configured in the administration section of Managing News. For those new to automatic geotagging services, Placemaker is a free API that leverages Yahoo's GeoPlanet location database to identify where in the world a particular piece of content is relevant.

Here is a look at Managing News using Placemaker to tag content in Chinese:

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To be successful, larger Drupal sites face key issues of site performance and scalability. This webinar is targeted at managers and developers who are trying to get the most out of a Drupal site. We'll discuss common Drupal performance bottlenecks and a number of techniques to dramatically improve site performance. A detailed review of recent performance and stress testing will highlight PHP optimizations specific to Drupal as well as the popular Pressflow extensions.

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For 40 years, scientists have searched for a way to bring nuclear fusion to the masses. If successful in bringing fusion online, we all could have an inexhaustible form of power to meet our world's energy needs. The promise of fusion is a dream that many have hoped to see become a reality in their lifetime.

Perhaps not for as noble of cause, Drupal users have sought better themes for their Drupal sites. Four years ago, it seemed to me that creating a good theme for Drupal was almost done as an afterthought. There simply were not too many places for a user to go for a quality Drupal theme. I recall spending a lot of wasted time maintaining my own (boring) themes for Drupal sites. The Drupal days of version 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 and even 4.7 for themes were dark days indeed. Luckily, Drupal 5 introduced us to a new theme called Garland. Garland may not have been a perfect theme but in my opinion the theme marked the beginning of an era for a new style of Drupal themes.

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