Welcome to xymphony.net
"Promoting Drupal, Nutch, Zend and open source web solutions in Canberra"
This is the website for Jason Guo and Grace Ge. We live in Canberra Australia with our loving son Ethan and our naughty dog Koji.
Jason is a freelance web developer, designer and photograher, who specialises in PHP coding, content management systems like Drupal, search engines like Nutch and Zend Framework. Jason also does lots of work with jQuery.
Grace is a former interior designer, a manager and now a freelance web designer. She has the knowledge of HTML, CSS as well as JavaScript. She also excels in project management and system testing.
Contact us if you would like to know more.
Track my nodes, new module now available
I've recently realised it's not easy for a user to track his/her nodes in Drupal, and it would be useful if a small module can be build to list a specific user's nodes and allow some filtering.
- This "mynode" module now adds the following features to your Drupal systemUser administration table now has a "view pages" link next to each user. This link take the administrators with the appropriate access right to see the pages belonging to the selected user.
jQuery - manipulate HTML select tags
Today we will talk briefly about using jQuery to manipulate HTML <select> tags. If you ever wondered how to do the following with jQuery, read on.
- Search for an option by its value and remove it
- Add a new option after the selected one
- Change the value of the selected option
- Change the description text of the selected option
Build an open source search application using nutch and Zend Framework
Why do I need a search application? There is Google.
Well, it is true Google now indexes almost everything on the Internet. However, Intranets of large organisations are generally restricted and behind firewalls. All these means the doors are normally shut for Google crawlers to index you data on the intranet. Of course Google knows this and always tries to "penetrate" the perimeter by selling their search appliances. Are they good. Hell yes. Can your organisation afford them? Maybe.
Get a premium mobile number for free from Optus
I tried this a few times and have since got 3 good number (may not be quite 'premiun' but are better than those randomly allocated to you).
How? It's easy.
