I gang med finansiel uafhængighed
Jeg har altid haft en fin økonomi, og jeg har ikke manglet noget. Men jeg har heller ikke rigtig anstrengt mig for, at det skulle være sådan. Nu er jeg stødt...
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2016
Demokratisk dannelse - højskolen til debat
Så er bogen Demokratisk Dannelse - højskolen til debat udkommet. Bogen er redigeret af FFD og redigeret af Rasmus Kolby Rahbek og Jonas Møller. Jeg har skrev...
2014
Bug triage on Commons
I will try to help out in the Drupal Commons issue queue for the 7.x-3.x version on Thursday. Come and join me. The main objective of the bug triage is to na...
Brooming the Panels issue queue
I’ve been involved quite a lot lately in helping out with Panopoly - and it has just got to a 1.1 release because of great work @dsnopek, @mrfelton and @popu...
Samsung Galaxy IIs
I was growing tired of my Samsung Galaxy sII which came with Android 2.3 being too slow after applying all upgrades to the Android system to reach 4.1. There...
2013
Google Docs letter merge
Nowadays, I almost only use Google Docs for my text processing needs. I needed to do a mail merge using data from a Google Docs Spreadsheet to a Google Docs ...
Change database and password on an Aegir managed site
My server is setup using Barracuda, and therefore running Aegir as a backend. For unknown reasons, I’ve experienced a couple of times that my database has be...
Improving css by using SASS and compass
On vih.dk I had a layout which is several years old, and it is mainly suited for viewing on a desktop. I wanted to start the transition to making the layout ...
Setup a new PC computer
When getting a completely new Windows 7 computer, you will probably want some programs on it. You probably need an e-mail program, an officie suite, some sec...
Fixing the database
This is how you can fix the database on Barracuda.
Integration between Drupal Commerce and BillysBilling
In discimport.dk we are using Drupal Commerce Kickstart and we just recently started using BillysBilling.dk as our accounting solution. Therefore we just sta...
Google Drive Doc Filter sandbox released
I needed to embed some Google Drive Presentations into some of my articles. However, I did not want to give the users full HTML access. Therefore, I created ...
2012
Which crop module to use for images on Drupal 7?
Most sites I build use the same images with different crops. There is a lot of options - which might be why suggestions has been made for some modules to mer...
Understanding the power of Barracuda
There is several ways you can use Barracuda. I am trying to find the most efficient ways, both as a developer and to utilize the server ressources efficientl...
Installing barracuda with vagrant and chef
Earlier I wrote how you could easily install Barracuda on a VM created by Vagrant. I investigated a bit further because I have two development machines, so I...
Encrypted incremental backups for BOA with Duplicity
After reading Encrypted Incremental Backups With Duplicity on Amazon S3 I decided that I wanted to try Duplicity to backup the data of my BOA-server.
Getting remote import to work on a barracuda setup with vagrant
This is how I got remote import to work on a BOA setup with a local development environment created by vagrant. After reading the article you should be able ...
Taking the leap into Vagrant, Aegir and easy development
After watching the presentation about Fearless development with drush, Vagrant and Aegir from Montreal by @ergonlogic. I decided that it was time to make my ...
Exploring foundation for my future theming needs
After seeing this screencast, I decided to start exploring the foundation framework, which I am expecting to use to rebuild the theme for motionsplan.dk whic...
Dynamically putting select values on a line item in Drupal Commerce
As I wrote earlier, I am creating a registration system using Drupal Commerce for Vejle Idrætshøjskole. For one of our course type, we need the customer to b...
Janitor in the issue queue
For completely selfish reasons, I have helped clean up the issue queue for a couple of projects. I say selfish because, I figured if I could reduce the numbe...
Registration system for Drupal 7 using Commerce
Registration system for Drupal 7 using Commerce I needed a registration system for the Danish Folk Highschool, Vejle Idrætshøjskole, where you could register...
Automatically test installation profile
I have created an installation profile for most of my sites, which I use when creating new platforms on my Barracuda-Octopus-Aegir setup. When creating new p...
Introducing Userreport.com module
Today I just released the alpha1-version of a very simple module, which makes integration with userreport.com possible. Introducing the module userreport.
Setting up goals in Google Analytics for Drupal Commerce
I have created a e-commerce site using Drupal Commerce. The site is tied to a Google Analytics account through the google analytics module and the commerce a...
Setting up Barracuda and Octopus
A couple of notes. Will end up as an article at some point.
Aegir stung me and Linode couldn’t heal me
I came across a nasty bug in Aegir today. Apparently it is still possible to loose data even if you try to do all the right things. I wanted to test some new...
78,043 potential contributors for colorbox
I have been using colorbox on several projects, and we are thinking about making the colorbox module a dependency of Media Gallery. One day I had an issue wh...
Media Gallery gets a little attention
I started using Media Gallery on Vejle Idrætshøjskole to quickly setup up a media gallery, and seeing that it builds on the media project and it is used in D...
What to do when the maintainer has gone away?
Drupal is an awesome open source system, and the community around Drupal is great. There is a lot of very useful contrib modules. I have supplied several iss...
Making Media Gallery work with Media 2.x
I am constantly trying to make it easier to be an editor at Vejle Idrætshøjskole site. Now the time has come to make it easier to create photo galleries. Ear...
Using ctools plugins to create different pdf layouts
At Vejle Idrætshøjskole we invite the community to participate in our some of our lectures. Of course we list the lectures on our lecture webpage. The list i...
Usability improvements for Drupal 7
I struggled with some minor stuff with Drupal 7, which I do not think I should be struggling with. However, I found some small modules which helped me solve ...
In search for a better admin experience for Drupal 7 users
I am working on a site for Vejle Idrætshøjskole in Drupal 7. The content editors are non tech, so I am trying to improve the admin backend, so the experience...
Add barcode to pdf using chart module
On Vejle Idrætshøjskoles site I needed to make pdf’s of all the lectures, so I could create a small booklet. I created a lecture content type with a title, b...
Adding small teaser slideshow
On Vejle Idrætshøjskoles website I wanted a small teaser slideshow with a picture, title and a link to the actual content. To accomplish that I used Views 3,...
2011
Struggling with duplicate content in Drupal 7
I struggled many hours to improve the technical side of SEO on Vejle Idrætshøjskoles website. Here is what I discovered:
Creating an Drupal App Server
I have just figured out, how I can create my own app server. If you want to follow in my steps, I have created an install profile, you could utilize (and may...
Two-way node reference in Drupal 7
vih.dk is a site for a Danish Folk Highschool. The school has some teachers that teaches different subjects. A teacher teaches several subjects, and more tea...
Using precision and panels everywhere
fjvu.dk was just redesigned. We needed a custom frontpage and on the subpages we needed control over how many sidebars we used. We chose panels everywhere wi...
SEO for Drupal 7
Previously vih.dk was a proud #1 in Google search rankings on the keyword “idrætshøjskole”, but now we slipped to 4th place. That is not satisfacory, so we h...
Making a health profiler
I started creating an easy to use, open source health profiler made for Drupal 7. However, I want to alter the criteria for some of the tests a bit and add o...
Converting motionsplan.dk to Drupal 7
My site motionsplan.dk has been created in Drupal 6, and the source code is online at github. I want to upgrade it to Drupal 7 and at the same time, I want t...
Pruning users from Drupal 6 site motionsplan.dk
My site motionsplan.dk has a lot of users, and we appreciate that. However, reviewing the list of users reveals that there are some inactive users also. Some...
Show all Google Calendars on Samsung Galaxy II s
My beloved HTC Desire died, because it did not wear a bathing suit. I decided to buy a Samsung Galaxy II s as a replacement, because I wanted a nice phone wi...
Announcing Idea Informer Widget to gather feedback
There are a lot of websites offering the possibility to easily gather feedback from users. A lot of the websites have a priced plan, but idea.informer.com of...
Web based module update in Drupal 7 on Dreamhost
I created a site for a friend with Drupal 7. I did it as a friendly gesture because they urgently needed a new site. So I probably used 3 hours setting up th...
New spam handling with mollom on Drupal 7
I used to get a lot of spam on this site. They were not shown because I had comments approval turned on for anonymous users. However, it was tedious to figur...
Pruning an e-mail list with mailchimp
I use mailchimp for my newsletter lists. However, the list contains quite a few people which has not opened any e-mails from any campaigns, and I do not wish...
Implementing mailchimp in a Drupal site
Recently I switched to mailchimp for my newsletter needs for several reasons. I wanted an easy way to implement, and I read this article: Mailchimp 2.0: Anat...
Cykelruter i Vejle-området
I løbet af sommeren skal vi beskrive nogle cykelruter, der starter fra tre cykelvenlige overnatningssteder:
Adding new functionality to legacy Drupal 6 site fjvu.dk
fjvu.dk is a knowledge database for people working with central heating. They established a website a couple of years ago written in Drupal 6.12. Now we need...
Scribd was not a perfect fit?
I was in love with Scribd for the following reasons:
Would you make your global functions dynamic Drupal?
I am porting a legacy website to Drupal 7. The old website has a lot of functionality, and it works fairly well already, and it is written in konstrukt frame...
Contextual links instead of tabs in Drupal 7
Drupal 7 utilizes contextual links many places. But it still uses tabs on nodes. I wanted my theme to change those tabs to contextual links, so the layout wa...
Custom filter handler in Drupal 7 and Views 3 for data stored as date and datetime
I just needed to expose a table with legacy data for Drupal 7 with Views 3. However, some of the date in the legacy mysql database was stored as DATE and DAT...
Handling legacy urls indexed by Google with Drupal 7
We recently switched to Drupal for vih.dk and a lot of pages has been moved around and given new names. We do not want to create a mapping from the old links...
Setting up a mediacenter with xbmc and mythtv on ubuntu natty (11.04)
Setting up a mediacenter in Ubuntu is not neccessarily a Plug’n’Play experience. You need to dig hard in Google to make everything work. Here are my notes fo...
Announcing Picasa Slideshow Input filter for Drupal 7
I just released the first alpha version of a new filter to embed Picasa Webalbum Slideshows into any page which accepts input filters in Drupal 7. Swing by a...
Announcing Scribd Input Filter for Drupal 7
I just promoted my very first Drupal module from the sandbox to a real project and released version 7.x-1.0 of the input filter to include Scribd documents i...
De frie skoler bør open source deres hjemmeside
Det er ingen hemmelighed, at der altid er nok at bruge penge på, når man driver en fri skole, fx højskole og efterskole. Jeg har i en årrække været webmaster...
vih.dk now in Drupal 7
Previously vih.dk was programmed in a home grown CMS system. The system had some limitations regarding adding and editing new regular pages, so we needed a n...
Hvordan foregår motorisk læring?
Motorisk læring er spørgsmålet om, hvordan den motoriske kontrol optimeres til at klare de udfordringer, kroppen stilles overfor. Kroppen møder nye og uvante...
Install PDT on Eclipse Galileo on Ubuntu
I spent a lot of time looking through various sites on the internet, before I found the easy solution on how to install PDT (PHP Development Tools) on Eclips...
2010
Rejse til New Zealand
Vi rejser snart til New Zealand, og vi er i fuld gang med at planlægge. Dina og jeg tager Lily på et halvt år med, og vi har booket en autocamper i hele peri...
Udfordringer med ny router fra Fullrate
Jeg er særdeles godt tilfreds med min bredbåndforbindelse fra Fullrate. De har lige sendt en ny router (Netgear VVG2000), som er bedre forberedt til de nye h...
Simple continuous integration with PHP and subversion (or any other version control system)
I work on a project in a subversion repository. Because knowing is half the battle, I wanted some kind of continuous integration on the project. Earlier I ex...
Continuous integration with cijoe and PHP
Because knowing is half the battle, I looked into some possibilites for setting up a continuous integration server with my php projects hosted in github repo...
Create install profile and drush make file for legacy site
I had a Drupal 6 site which I installed when first getting to know Drupal. Later I have grown fond of drush make and installationprofiles for several reasons.
Include data from legacy database in Drupal 7
I am porting a site to Drupal 7. I need to keep the legacy registration system, but wanted to include the list of course to register to in the new Drupal 7 s...
Drupal 7 media module rocks
The handling of media in Drupal 7 is really a huge improvement from the earlier versions. After reading Drupal 7 Media Module is Must-have I started playing ...
Multisite on Drupal 7
It is fairly easy to use one Drupal 7 code base for several sites. However, you need one database for each site, so you cannot share users across the sites. ...
Getting started with Drupal 7
Recently I have been investigating Drupal - and great things has been introduced with Drupal 7. So I started using it for several websites. However, the lear...
Kryptérer du følsomme data?
Man bør tage sin digitale sikkerhed alvorligt. Og det kan faktisk være rigtig fornuftigt at kryptere ens data, så andre mennesker ikke bare kan få fat i det.
Interesseret i din egen digitale sikkerhed?
Der er i hvert fald tre væsentlige områder, når man snakker om digital sikkerhed: backup, adgangskoder og tyveri. Jeg har haft stor fornøjelse af tre projekt...
Using EGIT with Github
Recently a lot of the projects I am using has been moving to github.org. I am using Eclipse for development, and that worked flawlessly with Subversion. Howe...
2009
Rotere videoklip
Jeg optager sommetider videoer på højkant med mit Canon G10-kamera. Derfor har jeg ofte brug for at rotere videoerne. Jeg arbejder på Ubuntu, og der fandt je...
Etikette i e-mails
Det er ingen kunst at svare på en e-mail, og det er nærmest ikke sværere at gøre det på en bedre måde end du gør i dag. Send din e-mail som tekst og svar læs...
2007
Motorisk kontrol
Motorisk kontrol er spørgsmålet om, hvilke principper der styrer de komplicerede bevægelser. Hvordan håndterer kroppen et system, der bl.a. består af hjernen...
Filmbyen Los Angeles
Los Angeles er naturligvis et mekka for film makers. Det er let at komme til screening af nye film i landet lavet af drømme.
New Orleans på vej tilbage
Da orkanen Katrina ramte New Orleans, Louisiana, i starten af 2005, var byen som med et forvandlet. Men menneskene er så småt på vej tilbage byen, som stadig...
Jul i Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Vi tilbragte julen hjemme i Santa Monica, men forsøgte at holde alle traditionerne i hævd.
2006
Halloween i West Hollywood
West Hollywood: Santa Monica Boulevard var spærret mellem Doheney og La Cienga, for nu skulle West Hollywood klædes ud. Og så sker der noget.West Hollywood h...
Opbevaring og kategorisering af digitale fotos
Det kan være et mareridt. Når man går rundt med sit digitale kamera, er de jo let at skyde rigtig mange billeder. Men hvor skal du gøre af dem bagefter, og h...
Kommaet er forenet
Nu er der ingen grund til at være forvirret længere, men muligheden for at bortforklare kommafejl er også forsvundet. Sprognævnet har nu for første gang side...
Tandlægen vil have pengene forud
Los Angeles: Så mangler jeg en fortand igen. Den tand jeg fik slået ud i en fodboldkamp for nogle år siden, er blevet pillet ud under store smerter. Faktisk ...
Valgkamp i fuld gang
UCLA: Valgkampen er i fuld gang. Demokraterne mener, at republikanerne goer det rigtig skidt. Og Schwarznegger har naermest oedelagt Californien i sin tid so...
På museum i Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Vi har besøgt to af de bedste kunstmuseer i Los Angeles. Verdens rigeste museum, The Getty Center, og UCLAs imponerende museum, UCLA Hammer Muse...
UCLA på Rose Bowl
72.000 tilskuere til en ordinær studenterkamp i amerikansk fodbold mellem UCLA og Stanford. Men spektaklet omkring kampen var alt andet end ordinært, og det ...
Mammoth Lakes betager
Mammoth Lakes: En historie fra bjergene med en kæmpe fødselsdagskage, smukke landskaber, produktion af røde blodlegemer og betagelse.
Brudstykker fra Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Englenes by i forskellige glimt. Det eneste jeg kan garantere er, at kronologien er tilfældig, men oplevelserne har fæstnet sig på min nethinde.
Boligjagt i Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Hvordan finder man noget at bo i, når man skal skære sig gennem trafikken med buslinjer, man ikke kender?
København - Los Angeles
Internationalt luftrum: Fra København til Los Angeles på en dag. En historie om forventning og ventetid.
Kontrol og læring af motoriske færdigheder og verbal feedback
Jeg skrev speciale om motorisk kontrol og læring og verbal feedback. Her kan du læse et resume af specialet, og hvis det lyder spændende kan du gå i gang med...
2005
Aften i West Street
Vi har sat os ned igen. For det er et rigtig godt sted. Betjeningen er smilende og rigtig venlig og opmærksom. De sætter en lerskål med glødende kul under vo...
Terracotta krigerne
Qin Shi Huang blev kejser i en alder af 13 år. Han blev senere kendt som den kejser, der samlede Kina, samlede The Great Wall og byggede et fantastisk mausol...
2004
Biomekaniske kræfter i et gorge swing
Da jeg var i Sydafrika prøvede jeg noget der hedder gorge swing (mpeg) hos thezambeziswing.com. De lovede at man kunne komme op på 180 km / t - og at man vil...
Lyx - den perfekte opgaveskriver
Det kræver lidt arbejde
2003
Verdens højeste bungyjump: Bloukrans Bungy Jump
Det er vigtigt at dokumentere, at man lever livet på kanten.De er nu snu, de gutter. De har sørget for at techno-musikken brager ud af højtalerne, så jeg ikk...
Skolim og profit
Limbørnene elsker skolim, for den blæser hjernen ud med det samme. Skolimsfabrikanter elsker limbørnene så meget, at de gerne producerer en farvestrålende sk...
Gadebørn høje på livet
Vi sidder mageligt på en pizzarestaurant og har udsigt over en plads. Der står et par sørgelige limbørn og læner sig op ad en lygtepæl. Vi har nok i os selv ...
Lim som våben
Han står på fortovet bag rækværket og stikker hovedet halvt gennem gitteret og kigger nysgerrigt på os i bussen. Han er ikke meget højere end en halv meter o...
Bloukrans Bungy Jump: Verdens højeste bungy jump
Verdens højeste kommercielle bungy jump på 216 meter
En hulens stor elefant - Addo Elephant Park
Det kan være nødvendigt at have en kikkert med når man er på safari. For dyrene gør som de selv vil. Vi tog med Anita i Addo Elephant Park, og selvom hun har...
Mungo er stor
Som et led i Mellemfolkeligt Samvirkes introduktionskursus til afrikanske forhold besøgte vi en lokal, tanzaniansk kirke.
På toppen af Kilimanjaro
[billeder] Mawenzie er en af de tre toppe på Kilimanjaro. Det er en stor naturoplevelse at gå op på Kilimanjaro.
Dr. Maretu - en traditionel healer
Da vesterlændingene koloniserede Afrika forsøgte man at udrydde den sorte tro og erstatte den med kristendommen. Men afrikanerne gav ikke bare afkald på alt ...
Børns rettigheder i Tanzania
Steven Ndosi, som er vores lærer på TCDC, arbejder meget med børns rettigheder i Tanzania - og han ser mange positive fremskridt på dette område. I dag fik v...
En klipning til en million
Jeg havde virkelig set frem til i dag, for vi skulle høre om traditionel tro, heksedoktorer og healere, men de eneste, der virkelig lavede heksekunstner var ...