Add CommentSource24Thursday, July 24, 2008By adminThe Media Code Sprint is underway! Here’s a cross-post from my blog detailing the goals of this sprint, which runs through Saturday. We need your help! Andrew Morton (drewish), Darrel O’Pry (dopry, remotely), and I are heading up a Media Code Sprint in Portland this week! Come help, in person
Read MoreAdd CommentSource News15Tuesday, July 15, 2008By admin In the last couple of weeks we received a lot of positive feedback on the usefulness of our consolidated registration system. People found it really easy that they didn’t have to go contact receptionists to see in what hotels rooms were still available. On July 24th we are
Read MoreAdd CommentSource18Friday, July 18, 2008By adminOver the last several weeks I’ve been contacting people in the DC Drupal community and the Drupal Association to evaluate whether DC would serve as a good space for the Spring 2009 North American DrupalCon. As we all know, it will and it will be awesome! With our large and
Read MoreAdd CommentShareSource Articles16Monday, June 16, 2008By adminDrupal’s theming system offers developers and designers a flexible way to override default HTML output when specific portions of the page are rendered. Everything from the name of the currently logged in user to the HTML markup of the entire page can be customized by a plugin “theme”. Unfortunately,
Read MoreAdd CommentSourceTutorialsBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati20Wednesday, February 20, 2008By adminThe other day, I was tasked with building a data scraper. Having never built such a contraption, I naturally turned to the Internets for preexisting code. I was horrified with what I found. The “free” PHP scripts (that’s “free” as
Read MoreAdd CommentSourceTutorialsBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati13Thursday, March 13, 2008By adminOn the #drupal IRC channel, Excallibur points out that there are no coding standards for CSS. I’d like to propose some straightforward ones. Note that I am not intentionally omitting indentation within rules, but am having trouble with my code
Read MoreAdd CommentSourceTutorialsBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati14Saturday, April 14, 2007By adminMy arch-nemisis is overly complex logic in template.php and page.tpl.php files. It seems to me that when a drupal codebase becomes brittle and unmaintainable, the culprit is usually going to be hundreds of conditional lines of php code in a
Read MoreAdd CommentSourceNewsBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati10Sunday, June 10, 2007By adminBy Carl Poland (guest contributor) — CEO, Compubiztech Solutions, LLC, and Professor of Computer Science The other day, I stumbled on a post by some “blogger” named Kathy Sierra. Her post advised that code “…cannot be merely functional, it must
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