Sun xVM Virtual Box - Ubuntu Screen Resolution

If you're like me you've installed Ubuntu as a Virtual Machine inside of your day to day OS using Sun xVM VirtualBox (By far the Easiest to use freely available VM tool - it just works). And if you're like me you were perplexed that for all your efforts you couldn't easily adjust the screen resolution of the Ubuntu VM.

That is until you read either this post - or the post I link to: Installing Guest Additions for Ubuntu

I'm not going into all the specific details of this operation (the link provided does a good job). But, basically, once you've got Ubuntu running inside of Sun xVM Virtual Box you need to take one more step. If you click the menu item shown in the screen cap, Ubuntu will open its file browser exposing the location of the Guest Additions available to you. Once you know where they are, you pop open a terminal - cd to that location and run the Guest Addition .run file that matches your host OS.

After that you can reboot Ubuntu - and you will have the following:

Drupal core getting slower?

Khalid over at 2bits.com has been doing some benchmarking recently.

The results seem to indicate that Drupal core is getting slower.

You would think by the comments on the 2bits site that Khalid had committed heresy by reporting his results. But, before we shoot the messenger lets clear a few things up.

1. The purpose of a benchmark is to provide a baseline for the purposes of comparison. A methodology is chosen/stated, tests are done and results are collected and reported. Regardless of what those conclusions are, the 'benchmark' still stands unless there is a flaw in the methodology or method of reporting. A benchmark is usually considered more valid if it is independently reproducible. People can either accept this benchmark as is or attempt to reproduce them to validate or disprove.
2. Benchmarks are not universal. They only report what was tested.
3. The reader is left to draw their own conclusions.

TODO list in Komodo

I was just asked if komodo can track and list 'todo' comments left in code.

Apparently it can - with the help of an extension.

http://community.activestate.com/node/1396

I don't know how I lived without this feature before.

andre

Drupal Redesign is Much More than a Wordmark

Its been about 24 hours since Mark Boulton bravely posted some preliminary thoughts and sketches of a new Drupal wordmark. 60+ comments have been left on that post (and counting). Some of what has been said is useful to the discourse, others... perhaps not so much. I think the conversation can be boiled down to:

• This is a work in progress
• The initial concept is too 'Bauhausy' (i.e. people aren't crazy about the Bauhaus like word forms)
• This will not be a design by committee process - the Designer will have the final word
• Other options will be explored based on the feedback
• Maybe it was too early to solicit feedback on the design

Luckily there is more to this redesign than just a wordmark

The Drupal Logo, Drupalicon and Brand - Drupal Swag

For me, one of the many memorable moments from Drupalcon Szeged was something that Mark Boulton said about what the Drupal community does with the Druplicon.

For those of you that don't know, Mark Boulton Design was chosen by the Drupal Association for the re-desing and re-branding of Drupal.org.

During a session at the conference that introduced Mark Boulton Design to the Drupal community Mark talked about "Brand" being much more than just a logo. A Brand is about consistency. A Brand is a reflection of the attitude and ideals and the essence of a company / group / product. (I am paraphrasing).