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Version 3.04 of The MySQL Table Manager has been released.
Fixes for this release include:

• Display of page numbers for multi page display, an error introduced last version.
• Clean up of debug alert statement in JavaScript
• Field size input field for types such as INT was corrected for create and alter table.
• Fixed the connection to external servers. This will only work if the permissions for the database you are trying to connect to allow connections from external hosts.

Version 3.03 of the MySQl Table Manager is now available.
Thanks nlstart for your continued testing support and for turning it into the EasyDBTool plugin for the e107 CMS.

This release is mostly bug fixes and general cleanup. I now have most basic functionality testable via SimpleTest and will continue to add more extreme testing cases when I can.

Australasia Scales has finally been released. I think it was about 2 years in the making, mostly waiting on content. In the end it is very much like the original site with the addition of a content management system thanks to Drupal. the original designer flew the coop well over a year ago. Dan did a good job of picking up the pieces and getting the job finished.

Last weekend I flew down to Sydney for DrupalCamp Australia 2008. Everyone takes away something different from events like this apart from a t-shirt. For me I met great people with similar interests, and gained the motivation to improve my skills.
All the presentation I saw were excellent, the most memorable for me were Unit Testing by lyricnz, CVS Patches by Jaza, Panels 2.x Jeff, and Maintaining Drupal with Git by Gordon.
Since then I have started using Git for version control, and find it fast and simple to use. SimpleTest I am using for the MySQL Table Manager, and it has already helped enormously. It really is simple, once you get into it.
Drupal has been moving strongly towards 100% testing coverage for the next release, so becoming familiar with SimpleTest will be of benefit to the Drupal community and make testing modules easy.

When developing the APSystems website the client wanted the banner image to zoom into focus when the page loads. Firstly I was thinking of doing it in Flash, my Flash skills are pretty rusty so I came up with a method of doing it via jQuery's animate effect.

The banner is actually two parts, the main image and an overlay logo and text that is fixed in place. The overlay image is a transparent png so I used the Drupal PNG fix Module to get transparency working in IE. The main image dimensions are larger then the area for the banner so the quality is still good when zooming.