drupal showcase

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There are many famous drupal sites out there. This is a showcase of drupal sites that you can check and see for yourself what the CMS can actually do.

It's All Text!

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Not much to say. Simply forget about all the javascript wysiwyg editors

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125

Last chance to see the dolphins lost

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Some of you may have read "Last chance to see" by Douglas Adams. The book, a documentary about endangered species, describes how the Yangtze River Dolphin population declined drastically in just one or two generations. Those dolphins were not slowly killed by man for food. They simply died, because the usage of engine ships in the river rendered their sonar useless. It was practically the invention of internal combustion engine that killed them.

"Must Have" Firefox Plugins / Extensions

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There are some firefox extensions that you simply must have.

Vi tips & tricks

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in the ancient unix days the editors with powers were created. nine editors were given to the X-windows .. 7 to the console .. 3 were stream editors .. but there was this ONE editor for stream, console and X , one to rule them all, one to bind them .. VI VI VI .....

Basic vim tips..

(Start writing in vi)

Using h,j,k,l you can move around (left,down,up,right). Pressing i, you enter the "insert" mode where you can start writing under the cursor, while with I you start at the beginning of the line. Likewise with a and A you start after the cursor and at the end of the line. press ESC to get back to normal mode where you can delete with x one letter and with dd a line. To quit vi, type :w to save ( or :w filename to save it under the name filename) and :q to quit. Shorter, you :wq to save and quit or :q! to quit without saving. (By pressing : in normal mode you enter command mode wich is the third vi mode).

lets get started ..

First of all, undo with u and redo with ctrl-r :) With :e file2 you can open a second file and close the first. But vi keeps all the buffers so you can copy-paste (yank-paste actually).. so to yank 3 lines 3yy, move to another file with :e file2 then p. To get all lines you only need a ggyG. To get the paragraph {y}. Paste is p in normal mode and ctrl-r " in insert mode. By the way you can easily move between two files with e#. Everybody (well almost) knows that you can delete a line with dd. The registers 0-9 keep the last 10 deleted things so you can see them with :reg and to paste number 6 type "6p in normal mode (or ctrl-r 6 in insert mode). The latest deleted is also in the register " and that's why ctrl-r " is paste in insert mode. Of course you can use your own registers to yank for example m : "myy (keep in register m the current line) and "mp to paste it. And it gets even better...

You can keep more things in one register if you capitalize the register after the first time: "myy to get the current line, them move two lines down, "Myy to get this one as well, go to the next paragraph, {"My} to get the paragraph etc.. and with "mp (or ctrl-r m in insert mode) you magically paste two lines and a paragraph.