I'm new with drupal, and I wish sobody told me this yesterday: To make an absolute link to an image in a theme, without worrying about where the theme is going to be installed, you can do the following:

<img alt="logo" src="<?php echo(base_path().drupal_get_path('theme','your_theme_name'))?>/img/some_image.png" />

If you are using phptemplate, the drupal_get_path-call might be substituted by just $directory, making it even simpler:

<img alt="logo" src="<?php echo(base_path() . $directory )?>/img/some_image.png" />

The second one was found here:  http://drupal.org/node/52520

Netbeans got a nice css preview

Was doing some spare time drupal work in Netbeans 6.8 when I suddenly found out it had working css preview. See screenshot below for details:

Logging into my other (work ) account I found it in Netbeans 6.7 too, which explains why it wasn't mentioned in NetBeans 6.8 -- New and Noteworthy

The "bug"

A couple of days ago I troubleshooted some code that was supposed to take a ResultSet as input and return a String as output. For some reason it would just skip the entire resultset, regardless of what I did. In hindsight, it's funny. That last() gave me a lot of debugging, including looking for possible concurrency issues. Don't know why I put it there in the first place either :)

A very short review of the N82

I got my Nokia N82 about one year ago. Here is my short review: The good

• Built in camera is good!
• Build in GPS is decent. I like it. (the reason I say it's decent is that my brother, who was used to the Nokia navigator phone says the N82 it's horrible in comparison.)
• Makes good use of features. Examples:
• Camera can geotag pictures automatically.
• The "Sports tracker"-program uses both GPS and motion sensor to provide detailed information.
• Stable. (Was horribly slow a couple of days ago, but that problem disappeared after uninstalling shozu. Also this was the first time I experienced real trouble with this phone.)
• Handles 1500 messages in sms inbox withouth a hitch.
• You can search for keywords and the phone will find all occurrences in calendar, mail, addressbook, music etc. And it is resonably fast.
• Go back to previous suggestion feature when writing sms
• Syncs with eGroupware. (Takes some effort to get it right, but that is mostly because of eGroupware, not because of the phone.)
• Alarm clock: You can choose which days it will ring.
• You can access the phone using bluetooth easily under Linux (Ubuntu, at least.)
• Wifi.

The bad

• Lacks autocomplete on entering phone numbers.
• Two needlessy easy-to-hit shortcut key to access media features.
• If you store the same cell phone number on two contacts, just the phone number will be shown in the display, with no warnings given.

Edit 2009-05-21: Add the point about storing the same number under two contacts.

Updated the pomodoro timer

I've finally upgraded the pomodoro timer. List of updates:

• You can now open the applet in a pop-up window. See fourth tab on the top.
• Buttons instead of small links. (Thanks Sten, Johan)
• Fixed a bug that prevents new unplanned and urgent items beeing added after the last one has been moved up.)

If you are a pomodoro fan without a physical timer, -go ahead try it! You are encouraged to leave feedback on http://www.itlanddata.no/the-pomodoro-technique/feedback.html If you like it, you are also encouraged to give me a link back. (Thanks again, Johan.)

Inverting the colors

is as easy as pressing Win + m (on my machine, Ubuntu 8.10, "Extra" desktop effects)

Makes programming a little easier on the eyes a late friday night.

A four leaf clover!

(Picture is from last summer, found it today before work and thought I'd like to share it anyway. And yes, I feel lucky :)