Web development: PHP, Drupal, MySQL, Javascript, jQuery programming (tolstoy.com)

Twitter heavily censors a large number of their users. And, despite what you might have heard, it's not just conservatives. They censor all types of users: liberals, conservatives, sports fans, m...

https://tolstoy.com/twitter-censorship-checker

. If you want to use it, contact us first. It will soon be released as open source under the Apache license. Note that many of the features of the library have since been added to the standard Ja...

https://tolstoy.com/jconfig

Let's say you've just upgraded a site from Drupal 6 to 7 or made some other upgrade, but the new version of the site doesn't look like the old. The HTML output is fundamentally the same, but the ...

https://tolstoy.com/web/css-diff-how-find-differences-computed-styles

https://tolstoy.com/web/api-web-late-90s

By default, Mediawiki (the software that powers Wikipedia and other sites) adds the evil nofollow tag to outbound links. This page describes how to have that tag removed for a pre-defined set...

https://tolstoy.com/php/mediawiki-remove-nofollow-tag-selected-sites

I recently encountered an issue that may or may not be well known: apparently Drupal modules and themes can't have the same names. If they do, there will be at least one naming collision. Main ...

https://tolstoy.com/drupal/drupal-tip-module-theme-naming-collisions

Drupal's image module failed when I tried to use it to upload images to a Drupal installation at a Powweb.com hosting account. After some digging and searching, it turns out that Powweb's base ...

https://tolstoy.com/drupal/uploading-files-powweb-drupal-image-module

Here's a very basic tutorial showing how to create two very basic Yahoo Pipes (pipes.yahoo.com). This isn't for programmers or those who've used similar visual programming systems before. However...

https://tolstoy.com/web/yahoo-pipes-tutorial-video

The "nofollow" tag is (supposedly) designed to foil blog spammers. You can create links with that tag like so: example.com Main section:  We...

https://tolstoy.com/web/downsides-nofollow-and-quick-firefox-tip

The following is a Drupal 6 sample module showing how to encrypt a MySQL database column. Note that there are several cavaets: 1. This was only tested with 6.8; it might not work with other vers...

https://tolstoy.com/drupal/encrypting-mysql-data-drupal-6