The folks at pingVision have posted their case study for the Popular Science Magazine website on drupal.org. I attended this session and left it feeling very inspired. It was amazing to see what this small crew did with such a behemoth of a site. Just the thought of having to migrate a 1.66GB Oracle DB…
Jeff Miccollis and Young Hahn with DevelopmentSeed gave an excellent presentation at DrupalCon 2008 titled: Creating Custom Workflows for Drupal Apps: taking advantage of core hooks and context. The primary focus of this session was explaining the various methods of maintaining “context” throughout a Drupal site. In layman’s terms, this simply means a method of…
Addison Berry from Lullabot has posted the slides from his DrupalCon 2008 presentation: Contributing to Drupal: A guide for everyone. Woot!
John VanDyk, author of Pro Drupal Development, and longtime Drupal developer/guru, has posted the slides and video of the presentation he gave at DrupalCon on triggers and actions. It was great presentation from one of Drupal’s founding fathers. Though centered around Drupal 6, many of the basic principals can be applied to Drupal 5′s Actions…
Session: From Drupal Newbie to Drupal Ninja Time: 9:00am (EST) 03/03/2008 Presenter: Chad Williams (hunmonk) This presentation was targeted primarily at the Drupal newbie, and was mostly a “tips & tricks” session. Here are my notes from the session: We begin with a basic look at how Drupal works beneath the hood, so to speak….
Just in time for the BBQ’s, fireworks, and swimming- here’s a list of ten links that I gathered up with a little something for everyone. Enjoy.
If you work in a web design or development firm, then you are probably already very (if not too) familiar with the various idiosyncrancies across the major browsers. Even before you start to apply the stylesheets you can spot noticable differences in the way the browsers render the html. This is because the major browsers…
Nifty Corners Cube is a javascript library written by Alessandro Fulciniti that enables you to easily implement rounded corners on your page. There are many different utilities out there on the web that do basically the same thing, but you’ll be hard pressed to find one that does it any easier. If you have ever…
Anyone that has written HTML and CSS has undoubtedly, at one time or another, faced a major headache attempting to acheive crossbrowser display uniformity. It’s a problem that’s not going to go away anytime soon, so we all just have to live with it for the time being. I’ve noticed over the years, that everyone…
Installation Virtuemart: <5 minutes (if you have a working installation of Joomla, <10 minutes otherwise). Installs as a module for Joomla. Click upload & install from module installer pane, and viola! Package comes with two Joomla components, two mambots, and several plug-in modules that offer added functionality (i.e. minicart, top 10 products list). Includes sample…
