Custom content type not showing up?

You’ve created a custom drupal module to define a content type, its showing up in the create content menu, but its not showing up in the admin/content/type menu. What could be wrong?

Check that you have declared the [module_name]_form() function in your .module file.

Function header:

function [module_name]_form($form_state)

Note: if its not even in the create content menu, you need the [module_name]_node_info() function.

Tell it your way

Utilizing a 3d game engine, a series of extremely detailed events is  scripted throughout a large map during a span of 5 hours. Users are allowed to roam freely around the map as a normal player, or they can enter “Director Mode” that allows the user to fly around and record what they see using their fully-customizable virtual cameras.

After the cameras are confirmed, a rendering engine then outputs the selected sequences to HD content on the user’s machine. Using a 3rd party video editing software, the clips are edited together, along with what ever music, effects, overlays the user deem fit. The finish product is uploaded back to the server.

The entries are opened to the public, who are invited to vote for their favorite version of the incident.

The judging panel then reviews the shortlisted entries based on camera work, editing, timing, etc. to filter out a list of 10 finalists and the winners.

Skype for Windows Mobile 6

Apparently Skype decided to discontinue the Skype client for Windows Mobile 6, although existing installations would continue to run. I’m glad that I only found this out after I bought my skype credits.

But thankfully the .cab file can still be found online, and they work fine on my HTC Diamond 2.

http://www.4shared.com/file/GrqhiMzD/Skype_v300256_For_Windows_Mobi.html
http://www.box.net/shared/static/rxi1nb6j3q.cab

God I didn’t know I was buying myself into so much trouble when I got my Diamond 2

Moon 6 by Stephen Baxter

A novelette by my favorite sci-fi author, Stephen Baxter. Read it online at

http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/moon6.htm

In 40 pages, Baxter discusses alternate universes and speculates worlds without the advent of Nasa.

Laggy Flash CS4? There’s an update to fix that

After suffering a laggy Flash CS4 for nearly 6 months, I finally decided maybe it was an issue with the software and not my file. I feel stupid for not considering this possibility - an update which fixes the problem have been existing for over a year now.

Download it at: Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Update (10.0.2)

30MB (140 for Mac) and doesn’t require a restart.

Netizens Illustrated

Found an interesting pic today with digg, redditm facebook, twitter, myspace, 4chan, deviantart, youtube, google and wikimedia personified. The artist (unknown) is quite a genius.

Link: http://geekpadshow.com/2009/08/19/websites-as-people/

Comcast Town

Love the graphics in this website. You can navigate through the amazingly detailed town and even build your own room. The UI design is intuitive and the transitions between the many context menus are smooth and polished.

Apache Error #28 – No space left on device

The Apache server on my EC2 instance stopped suddenly and refuses to restart. Repeating in the error log is this misleading error:

(28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock
Configuration Failed

A quick check with df -h and repquota -v indicates that there are plenty of disk left and no user is over his quota. The culprit turns out to be left over semaphore arrays. To check whether they exist on your system, use

ipcs -s | grep apache

In my case this returns a shocking 128 left overs. To clear them, run

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The Spread of Walmart

http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/

Tim Brown on creativity and play