Hi, I'm Damian...

Damian Nicholson Welcome to my blog! I work at Orange Bus as a web-developer and have been building websites for around a year now. When I'm not glued to a computer screen I like to see live bands, read and play my guitar. Want to learn more?

14 April 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Crafting Appropriate URLs with the Token API

So Pathauto does most of the heavy lifting when it comes to making pretty URLs. There’s no questioning that this module is must for all Drupal projects. However I came across a situation recently where the out of the box functionality that Pathauto provides, just wasn’t enough.
I wanted to produce a different URL based on [...]

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11 April 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Drupal Clear Cache Bookmarklet

Because I haven’t got round to playing with Drush yet, I decided to throw together a bookmarklet to clear Drupal’s cache.
You can check it out on gist or alternatively you can click and drag the following link to your toolbar.
Clear cache
Note: The snippet is dependent on using Admin Menu.

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29 March 2010 ~ 1 Comment

Why listen to audiobooks?

One of my goals for 2010 is to read more books. This became a realisation when I noticed the few that lay on my nightstand had formed a nice coating of dust. The problem was that setting aside time to sit down and read had become a chore. I liken it to going to the [...]

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11 January 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Why aren’t you Huffduffing yet?

Lets face it – finding interesting and information rich podcasts in a certain niche is hard work. The web is filled with podcast directories with no easy way to sift through the noise.
Enter Huffduffer
A service built by Clearleft’s Jeremy Keith, Huffduffer is a social tagging tool for audio files. Think of it as a Delicious [...]

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31 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Goals for 2010

Because I’m feeling very optimistic about what next year has to bring, I’ve put together a list of things I want to achieve. In no particular order, they are:

Release a jQuery plugin
I started making a very basic jQuery colour swatch earlier in the year, but it went on the back-burner before I managed to perfect [...]

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