Kevc struggles with the basis of Drupal and the client side which includes Javascript, jQuery, PHP, CSS and HTML.

Now I have 2 pages with some game on it that I can play around with.  This way I can take a look at how to construct modules and how to build my own components in PHP and Javascript.

Checkout Invaders and Tetris

Well, looking at the software stacks I'm looking at to get the Drupal Server going with an XMPP stack and I'm shocked at how much there is out there already written, problem is all of it is new and must be mastered to be used effectively. Since I'm trying to be more efficinet and run faster I need to back off a little on the new tech stuff and try to whittle down what needs to happen for the server to get running.

So my next task was getting a Jabber web client running with Drupal. There are some articles about this, each with their own take on the configuration. The DXMPP module does not have a "official" version 7 port yet. Looked at a lot of Javascript clients, iJab looked like on to try so I downloaded and saw the Javascript in the module was encrypted... what gives?  I've heard of Google Webkit Tools, but I've never had occasion to use it.

So In creating the simple logo for this site I tried 2 different programs, GIMP and Photoshop CS4. I'd love to have GIMP as the editor of choice since it's Open Source and all, and Photoshop is just so expensive!

So the last post was supposed to have an image with it.  Looks like more tuning is necessary. When I looked at the RAW HTML there <img> tag was present, weird.

Update: So on next try I edited the text as Full HTML and it worked.

Example:

Looking at the Drupal schema it's interesting to see where the bodies for the articles are located...drupal_field_revision_body is where the text for each article lives.

Looks like the 'vid' is the revision ID, but I'm not positive from just looking at the data.

I wonder what language 'und' means...maybe undertermined?

So, after working with ejabberd a bit, I like it, but since it's in erlang I'm going to have to pickup a little about this language as well.  I've started some of the tutorials and the language basic framework is a lot like Lisp, but there are definitly some subtlties that are going to take some getting used to. I think erlang will provide a good basis for a service but anything that has to crunch on the data WITHIN an XMPP message will probably be handeled much easier with another language. I'll have to see how to integrate some other languages intot he framework of ejabberd.

So after fooling around with the Tigase server for a while, I could not get the MUC services to answer back correctly and allow me to create rooms from an account.  So I tried ejabberd. I was first noit wanting to use it because it uses Eralng as a base, but I figure any interface modules I create will probably be simple enough in any language.