Tom Bigelajzen. Web stuff.

Drupal.org.il, or Doil as we like to call it is the home for the Hebrew speaking  Drupal CMS community developers and users.

A couple of months ago my design concept for the site was selected by the community to be the site’s new design.

So, last week we had a redesign sprint and Doil now has a fresh new design.

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I bought myself a new MacBook Pro this week (So much fun!) and I wanted to have the same keyboard layout switch I had on my Ubuntu machine – Using CapsLock, which is useless otherwise.

After googeling around I found 2 relevant results -

The first is this post – http://hellomacworld.blogspot.com/2007/12/hebrew-keyboard-layout.html
By a guy who created a keyboard layout for the mac where shift+<key> prints out an English Capital letter (like everywhere else but OSX, I never understood this choice by Apple)

The second is an application called Ukelele that is a really good keyboard layout editing software for Macs.

I then created a keyboard layout that combines both needs – (more…)

Yes! this site is still alive.

I published the next version in the evolution of Tendu, my omnipotent Drupal theme.

Many cool new features, easier to use and adopt and most importantly has some accessibility enhancements that hopefully will make some of the sites using this theme a bit more friendly to those in need.

Besides that, I’m planning on moving this site to Drupal soon.
Sorry Wordpress, but I don’t need your user-friendliness anymore. I need Drupal’s power.
Muhahaha…

VLC media player 0.9.2 was released this week, featuring some icons I made for “Preferences” pane and for the “No album art” image.

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Icon is the Annual Israeli Science Fiction, Fantasy and Role-Playing Festival.

I was part of the team who created the site, and the site is based on “Tendu”.
More accurate – “Tendu” is the evolution of the basic theme of this site.

Currently the site is only in Hebrew, but the English (and basic pages in Russian, Arabic and Klingon) will be up soon.

http://icon.org.il