The Cloud Computing session presented at the bi-annual DrupalCon Szeged session in Hungary has been posted by the Internet Archive, who is generously recording and hosting the sessions. Watch the video here.

Acquia's Ethan Fremen and WorkHabit's Adam Kalsey present.  read more »

So a mild annoyance I found once switching over to Ubuntu. When in insert or replace mode, your arrow keys will stop working. Hitting an arrow key will move you to the line above the one you’re on and start adding “D” letters on new lines, causing undue headache while trying to clean up the mess.  read more »

The yearly survey is up. Go take it, and help form a worldwide picture of what we do from day-to-day on these, the Intertubes Of Life!

http://alistapart.com/articles/survey2008

We had a great time at the S.D. Drupal User Group meetup this month. there were almost 20 people in attendance this time, including Myself, Michael Murdoch, and Harry Slaughter, the latter of whom you would expect to be there because he was the impetus and organizer! I even saw some of the Achieve Internet gang there, including Alex Villeux and Karl Scheirer, my former supervisors. Awesome!  read more »

“Adobe Air requires Adobe Air to function”

lolwut?

I’m trying to install Twhirl, which is an Adobe Air app on my MacBook, and Air keeps taking a dump while trying to install itself.

Turns out, making a change in the International Preferences Pane fixes the problem /sigh…

Big thanks to Andrew Peterson for his step-by-step blog entry on how to make Air behave!

On 08.08.08, WorkHabit opened their Southern California Office doors in the San Diego marketspace. The main offices in Sacramento, CA cover all the territory from San Jose and San Francisco to Redding, and now their San Diego based location can service clients in the Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and Beverly Hills areas. Please come celebrate with us at the next S.D. Drupal User Group meetup this Wednesday!  read more »

So I’m working on a project now where nodes are mass-imported from a third party. By default, these nodes are unpublished until the delegated party can add additional information that the import can’t capture. We publish the node when it’s through being reviewed and updated.

To be clear, the workflow looks like: 1) Import nodes (CCK type: “Item”), default status is Unpublished. 2) User with “Reviewer” role looks at the queue of Items that needs reviewed 3) Reviewer reviews Item nodes, then sets them as Published.

Here’s the problem though:  read more »

I submitted a patch to the activitystream module to allow it to hook into views properly. In this case the patch allows you to specify a specific source type (e.g. Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Del.icio.us, etc.) and display only that source in a view.

This is particularly useful for things like showing your twitter status in a block ala facebook.

Hopefully it comes in handy.

You can review the patch here.

Like a lot of you, I’ve had to create many many backgrounds for jQuery tabs.

I’ve mocked up a little template in Photoshop which should help make creation super-simple and fast. An example gradient is included as a style for the less photoshop-literate.

Enjoy! (click to get it!) (Here’s an RGB version that should be GIMP-able)

When I was in high-school, I worked at an office supply chain in the “Business Machines” department. I sold computers, adding machines, Palm Pilots (the first revision!), printers, cables, you name it. Aside from helping customers, I had to stock those items on the floor, take daily inventory, complete cleaning/organizing projects, set up new displays to specs (Planograms) and take on whatever other tasks my managers wanted me to finish. Eventually, I was promoted to “Business Machines Lead” — which came with a sweet $0.75/hr raise.  read more »

I’m writing this post to call attention to a new training event. It seems like Lullabot is once again on a training roll, with their new video and now a really interesting training event called Do It With Drupal. The training looks like a great place to chop your teeth on Drupal, with Drupal luminaries like Earl Miles, Matt Westgate, Angela Byron, Moshe Weitzman, Jeff Eaton, John VanDyk, Nathan Haug, Addison Berry, Jeff Robbins, James Walker, Ryan Szrama, and Suzi Arnold among others.  read more »