Entries filed under Drupal

I'll pay you when I'm rich

18 June 2010

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Quick steps to debug your module's css

15 June 2010

Someone on the Drupal Dev list asked what to do when his custom module's CSS wasn't showing up. This is the quick checklist I sent in reply:

In order:

0. Make extra-sure your module's enabled on admin/build/modules

1. Check your drupal_add_css() call. Should look roughly like:
drupal_add_css(drupal_get_path('module', 'MYMODULE') .'/css/MYMODULE.css');

2. Make sure you're doing drupal_add_css() inside hook_init()

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How to use a mailing list

27 May 2010

When you reply to someone on a mailing list, your mail software will populate the "To:" address one of two ways: either to the person who wrote the post you're replying to, or to the entire list. This depends on how the list is set up.

There is a very simple way to determine if you're replying to a person or to the whole list (which might be bad if you're giving out your rates). Follow these three simple steps to avoid failing at mailing lists:

1) Read a message.

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CSS: ur doin it wrong.

25 May 2010

So I'm over on codinghorror reading a blog by one of the Stack Overflow guys about how CSS is super limited. Jeff hits us with a couple examples of how CSS falls short and then goes on to explore a couple Ruby gems that supposedly shine up the giant turds that are cascading stylesheets.

Jeff's 3 problems with CSS are:

  1. Vertical alignment is a giant, hacky PITA.
  2. Lack of variables so we have to repeat colors all over the place.
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Howto: Lavalamp menu in Drupal 6

11 May 2010

Today I got a tweet from @ChristianHudon who had seen our Lavalamp menu implementation on b4blinds.com:

@entendu I love this menu: http://www.b4blinds.com/ Care sharing howto?

So, Christian, here's how to:

First, javascript
Go snag the jQuery Lavalamp plugin and drop it in your /misc directory.

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DrupalCon SF is here!

19 April 2010

Bright Bacon is getting ready to represent at DrupalCon SF! We can't wait to see all the new ideas and creative energy in San Francisco. We're all stocked up on Red Bull and 5 Hour Energy and ready to make this 72 hours of awesome.

If you're looking for some Experienced Drupal talent, Erik and I will be there all three days, and the job fair on Tuesday night. Let's meet!

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Install profiles and umbrella hats: solutions without problems

09 October 2009

I have never understood the excitement behind Drupal install profiles. They purport to cut development time significantly and bring Drupal closer to the masses. Kris at The Worx Company calls them "a game changer for the entire CMS market." The patterns project has been long in development to provide platform to deploy install profiles to multiple sites.

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Rupal, the new Community-Powered CMS

01 April 2009

For those eagerly awaiting the next member of the Drupal family, WorkHabit is proud to announce Rupal, the CMS designed exclusively for our valued cross-dressing community members.

Core modules include automatic pronoun feminization, rounded corners on everything, and auto-filtering of "it's a trap!" comments. Over 9,000 hours have been put into lovingly crafting the first community release.

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Form validation - what makes sense?

19 November 2008

We just had an impromptu conversation over here about validating phone numbers that morphed into validating email addresses and more.

Adam brought up the fact there are a lot of email addresses that don't pass the basic regex validation that a lot of sites use. In fact, there was a good discussion of this very issue on Slashdot in a larger article on regexes. One comment:

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Amazon AWS & Drupal at DrupalCampLA

14 September 2008

My session on Amazon AWS & Drupal at DrupalCampLA. We're walking out the door at DrupalCamp, so I'll get more details up shortly.

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