Planet Drupal

It is with great sadness that, on the 15th of June, I will be officially leaving Examiner.com. It has been a hugely enjoyable experience working with some of the most talented people around, including many of the top names in the Drupal community.

I have grown immensely and learnt an incredible amount from everyone during my time at Examiner. I found myself scaling and helping to maintain the highest traffic Drupal site in the US. I improved my ability to collaborate in a large geographically diverse team.

FileField and ImageField 3.0 have just been released and bring with them the ability to display an upload progress meter in the FileField widget while a file is being uploaded. As ImageField uses the FileField widget this works for ImageFields too.

The original article FileField and ImageField 3.0 for Drupal 6 Released points out:

Probably the most exciting improvement is the addition of upload progress indication. This enhancement requires the PECL uploadprogress PHP extension, but adds a real asset to sites that use FileField for podcasts, videos, or other large files.

Drupal comes with the excellent and very powerful jQuery JavaScript library. jQuery really reduces the learning curve when it comes to adding fancy JavaScript effects to a Drupal site.

In this mini-tutorial I will show you how you can add a theme-based JavaScript file to your site so you can start to leverage the power of jQuery in your projects.

I've been painfully aware that the formatting of the HTML output of the Drupal sites we've been building are not up to the high standards we set for ourselves here at Freestyle Systems. The pages do validate against XHTML 1.0 Strict but Drupal doesn't make it easy for the developer to format the final HTML code that's output to the browser in a neat and tidy fashion.