Trinidad Guardian's Main Stage launched using Drupal!

Posted February 4, 2010 - 2:39am by shivanj

Main Stage

A few days ago, the Trinidad Guardian's Main Stage was launched.

Without a doubt, the website runs on the very powerful cutting edge content management system, Drupal 6.

The design was done in-house at The Guardian (provided as a template) and some features used are the jQuery powered photo galleries.

A gallery is considered a "node" which can contain multiple images, all of which are seamlessly uploaded through the web interface of the same website.

The Purpose of Life, The Evolution of Man, The Universe and Awesome Earth

Posted January 8, 2010 - 6:00am by shivanj

Asteroid Impact

All living species go through evolution.

Before the Chicxulub crater impact, there were no humans. After the impact humans walked the earth millions of years afterwards....a geological blink of the eye.

I think all species live for a while, then some massive extinction occurs by a natural phenomena. Consequently, (through evolution) a new species is derived.

Humans have been walking the Earth for thousands of years. Thousands of years is negligible when compared to the age of the universe.

The benefits of Open Source Software

Posted December 8, 2009 - 1:16pm by shivanj

How can you benefit from Open Source Software? "You" can either be a developer or a business and my latest article on the The Trinidad Guardian's website goes into detail about this.

You can read the article here: How can you benefit from Open Source Software?

Leveraging the Drupal Content Management System

Posted October 4, 2009 - 12:09am by shivanj

This is my presentation for the event: "Building with Open Source: For Developers", and was presented today for the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society Software Freedom Day events.

Comments and questions are welcome.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

It is available in the OpenOffice format (naturally) and as a pdf.

I apologize for not being able to finish the presentation on time. One hour is just too little to get me going on about Drupal. :)

ttcs_drupal_presentation.odp [ 4.9 MB ]

ttcs_drupal_presentation.pdf [ 3.2 MB ]

Drupalcon Paris - Short Post Mortem

Posted September 29, 2009 - 4:35am by shivanj

Drupalcon Paris

Drupal Lager

I have had the pleasure of obtaining a Drupalcon scholarship to attend the Drupalcon held in Paris in September 2009. View my profile.

Arriving in Paris was no different as seen on TV. Big city, taxis, metros, Eiffel Tower, street-side tables for two, random couples making out everywhere....yeah just as expected from when I last visited 12 years ago in 1997.

At the actual conference I helped out at the registration desk. Let me tell you, I believe I held a passport/ID from every single continent/country...some I did not even recognise.

To suck or not to suck

Posted August 17, 2009 - 9:41am by shivanj

KC Diana dinner mints
Dinner mints are small mint flavoured sweets usually served at the end of meals...usually. Today in Trinidad, dinner mints are used for much more than sucking. Its:

  • served with your bill at restaurants
  • for sale in some offices
  • used to lure tips at bars
  • used to somehow apply the love writings to your life
  • used during insulting someone for bad breath

10 things that make me go GRRR!

Posted August 6, 2009 - 9:04am by shivanj

In no particular order:

  1. Two of my favourite shows on at the same time.
  2. Battery dying while using a battery operated device.
  3. Having to get up early on a rainy morning.
  4. Having to get up early.
  5. Washing the car and then driving through pouring rain the next day.
  6. Sitting down to eat your favourite meal especially when you are hungry only to find a hair in it.
  7. Trying to use a mal-functioning keyboard, mouse or slow-ass computer.
  8. Waiting on someone.
  9. Hearing the radio DJ babble during a favourite song.
  10. Trinidadians and their lack of driving etiquette.

Puzzling Questions

Posted August 3, 2009 - 9:49pm by shivanj

I lay on my back, staring at the stars in a "freeness" state of mind....thinking. I kept bouncing up hurdles that turned into troubling questions that I did not have the answers too immediately. These questions really puzzled me.

Questions like:

  1. If one billion years elapses, that is surely enough for an entire generation to pass right?
  2. Really and truly, how big is the universe?

Shivan needs...

Posted June 21, 2009 - 10:59pm by shivanj

So I am currently bored. I decided to google "Shivan needs" and see what I came up with.

Here are the top ten results.

1. Shivan needs prayers

2. Shivan needs this win and a loss from someone just ahead of him to get into the playoffs.

3. Shivan needs to get off his pedestal and realise that to a lot of experienced gamers this game isn't rocket science

4. Shivan needs to walk to the nearest insane asylum

5. Shivan needs to turn 3 more or gain 72 more Zombie points to reach the next level

More content = more traffic = more revenue

Posted June 11, 2009 - 3:40pm by shivanj

Alexa rank

Looking at hard core figures suggest that, for http://guardian.co.tt, the 2nd highest majority of traffic comes from Trinidad and Tobago. The first is the US.

For trinidadexpress.com: 41.3% comes from Trinidad.

For newsday.co.tt: 55% comes from Trinidad.

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