Archive for the month of November 2014

Drupal 7.x: allow users to delete their own comments

30 Nov, 2014 Stephan 3 Comments
Drupal

The module Comment goodness from jessebeach adds some functionality to the commenting system, such as sorting comments, as well as a new permission to allow users to delete their own comments. If you are just looking for the delete option then the other options may not be very useful. They also can, as was the case for me, interfere with existing templates and preprocess functions.

Read more ›

iOS 8.1.1: first update to leave Bluetooth untouched

17 Nov, 2014 Stephan

iOS 8.1.1 may very well be the first update to leave the Bluetooth setting untouched. It was disabled prior to the update and I was pleased to see this was still the case after the reboot.

I understand it may benefit Apple to encourage users to enable it, but it has always struck me as very odd that the setting was completely ignored.

Hopefully this will be the case with future updates.

Read more ›

Drupal: lean page template for 403 and 404 errors

15 Nov, 2014 Stephan
Drupal

In order to reduce the server load and data sent on a 404 (not found) or a 403 (access denied) I prefer to serve a slimmed-down page without any blocks, etc. I copied page.tpl.php as page--error.tpl.php and removed most of the regions/blocks, breadcrumbs, menus, etc.

Read more ›