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Laminated Hardback Yearbooks

by jake ~ November 24th, 2006. Filed under: Around the Office.

Woo hoo!! At last-our example laminated hardback yearbooks have arrived and they look GREAT!
These laminated book are by far our favourite of all of the designs we offer. Even though people do like the leather-look traditional hardbacks, the laminated books are cheaper (yay) and they also allow you to have your own full colour crazy [...]

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Online polls (awards) for members to vote on

by jake ~ November 21st, 2006. Filed under: Features and Ideas.

We’ve just added a new feature to allow yearbooks to have polls (awards) for members to vote on. As always, we listen closely to our customers’ desires and act accordingly.
Each yearbook can have unlimited polls for members to vote on. For example, a question may be ‘Most likely to be Prime Minister’ or ‘Most eligible [...]

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Debug live errors more easily with debug_backtrace() output in error messages

by jake ~ November 15th, 2006. Filed under: Drupal.

Tailing my error log, I kept coming across annoying errors like this:

[Mon Nov 13 21:14:49 2006] [error] [client xx.xxx.xxx.xxx] PHP Warning: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /path/to/drupal/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 350, referer: http://www.example.com/node/1234/edit

No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t reproduce the errors locally, but somehow real users could create [...]

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Drupal Community Yearbook

by jake ~ November 13th, 2006. Filed under: Drupal.

In our effort to give something back to Drupal (the fantastic open source content management framework at the core of AllYearbooks), we’re aiming to make a physical yearbook for members of the worldwide Drupal community.
Presuming all goes to plan and enough people join, the idea is to produce physical copies of the yearbook (as well [...]

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The blog begins & press photo shoot

by jake ~ November 5th, 2006. Filed under: Around the Office.

This is the first post in the staff blog, a place for our massive workforce (ehem, me and Gemma) to talk about all kinds of boring nonsense that goes on in our daily working lives.
Today (though a Sunday, not one of our official ‘weekends’ as they now fall mid-week due to Gemma’s acupuncture most - [...]