Submitted by Dale on December 20, 2006 - 11:34pm
I finally got around to installing Firebug (http://getfirebug.com/). After repeatedly hearing good things, the time had come to check it out. I wish I hadn't waited so long. So far I'm only scratching the surface of what it can do, and it's awesome!
Submitted by Dale on December 18, 2006 - 4:47pm
February 2007 is a busy month. There are three Vancouver conferences, each focused on a different aspect of web technology. Two of them are very affordable, one is non-technical.
Web Directions North
February 7 - 9, 2007
http://north.webdirections.org/
Before Dec 31: Conference: $895, Optional Feb 8 Workshop: $395 ($495 without conference)
Vancouver PHP Association Conference 2007
February 12 - 13, 2007
http://vancouver.php.net/confschedule
$100 before Dec 31st./ $150 regular
Northern Voice 2007
February 23 - 24, 2007
http://2007.northernvoice.ca/
$30 for 1 day/$50 for both days
Submitted by Dale on November 20, 2006 - 11:16pm
Submitted by Dale on November 15, 2006 - 10:12am
For your consideration, the newly made over North Shore Writers' Association website: www.nswriters.bc.ca
The website is now running on the Drupal content management framework and makes extensive use of the Views and CCK (Content Construction Kit) modules. Views is incredible. What I was doing with SQL queries I can do faster and easier in the Views user interface. More over, Views is theme friendly and likes to give a helping hand. The code snippets it provided turned a potentially hair pulling theming experience into a straight forward process. Combined with CCK for creating custom nodes, laying down the bones was easy. Kudos to Earl Miles, Jonathan Chaffer, Karen Stevenson and the other developers for such awesome modules.
Submitted by Dale on November 3, 2006 - 11:17pm
Nothing like checking your email and seeing 143 new comments on your website. But wait, they all happened in the space of 2 minutes! One hell of a flame war or . . . spam.
Fortunately, not a single one of the comments was published thanks to Akismet!
Submitted by Dale on November 1, 2006 - 11:00am
Submitted by Dale on November 1, 2006 - 10:24am
The Drupal 5 beta release is now available for testing: http://drupal.org/drupal-5.0-beta1
A message from Dries this morning said only 3 critical bugs at this time and the chances are good that 5.0 will require fewer betas/RCs than 4.7.
Upgrades are always such mixed blessings. Great new features but the thought of site upgrades isn't appealing. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Submitted by Dale on October 30, 2006 - 3:33pm
In his blog at http://buytaert.net, Drupal creator Dries Buytaert praised: Creating Passionate Users blog. And rightly so. The pieces I've read so far are either informative, provoke thought in the right direction, or are plain entertaining. Sometimes all three.
Submitted by Dale on October 28, 2006 - 1:06am
Simon Wilson recently blogged about a Firefox extension named Tamper Data. Like Wilson, I seldom need to play around with data submitted from the browser. However, the request/response display looks very handy and the graphing feature Wilson highlighted is golden. I could have really used this in my last job instead of resorting to Ethereal.
Submitted by Dale on October 27, 2006 - 10:38am
One thing about the Vancouver Drupalier meetings, I'm never quite sure what to expect. Last night's meeting was the least technical so far and a lot of fun. Here are some notes with stuff left out to protect both the innocent and the guilty . . . . .
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