Robin Monks
Robin Monks is an avid open source contributor, with a special focus on Drupal and Firefox. He has worked in the past for various Drupal development shops including Prometheus Labor Communications and CivicSpace.
Robin is currently president of the Podhurl Inc. development shop, which provides services to achieve rich online experiences.
By Robin Monks on September 3, 2010
Image via Wikipedia My vlog thoughts of course beginning with Microsoft Mouse Mischief SDK. So, here’s the thought: someone at Microsoft probably some underpaid intern — who was probably trying very hard to keep their job after the summer ended – if you’re listening Microsoft don’t let them stay…let them go…yeah. They decided to invent a technology [...]
Posted in Video | Tagged Business, Microsoft, Monopolies and Oligopolies, mouse, Technology |
By Robin Monks on July 8, 2010
Image via Wikipedia In relation to this “Boundless Summer Challenge” going around on Facebook… I personally take issue with “challenges” like this; because they can give the wrong impression that our Salvation is works based. It’s not. And, we shouldn’t be focusing on that, or bribing folks with the far-off chance of some prize for living [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Christianity, Evangelism, Facebook, God, Jesus, Religion and Spirituality |
By Robin Monks on June 6, 2010
Image via Wikipedia If you are a vector artist looking for a small project, Podhurl Inc may have something right up your alley: Podhurl Inc. is seeking a talented vector artist to design game elements in the style of several popular card games.  The artist would need to create a unified, modern style and produce vector resources [...]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged Design, Job |
By Robin Monks on April 21, 2010
Add another module has been recently updated with another new time-saving feature; you can now display “Add another” tabs on certain node types.  I’m also taking the time to think of what else can be done to make the usual node creation workflow easier for end users. I’ll be looking for suggestions on how to improve the [...]
Posted in Drupal | Tagged Content Management, Drupal, PHP, Programming, Scripts, WWW |
By Robin Monks on March 22, 2010
Recently after reading Valve’s blog post on how engie updates in Team Fortress 2 hadn’t been going as planned; I started thinking about what I, as the stereotypical Engineer class player, would like to see happen to my class.  One of the biggest annoyances to me personally is that there are common places in every map where, well, you basically [...]
Posted in Gaming | Tagged Recreation, Team Fortress, Team Fortress 2, Valve |
By Robin Monks on February 23, 2010
Michael B. from the Mozilla Marketing list recently posted an hypothesis on why Google Chrome may suddenly start taking a much larger chunk out of the browser market now that Microsoft’s browser selection screens are appearing in the EU. “I’ve a hypothesis to explain Chrome’s recent and sudden surge of usage share the last couple months. Let me first say that almost every time I ever ask what web browser someone uses, the answer I get is Google….”
Posted in Development, Drupal, Free Software, Watchful Eye | Tagged Firefox, Google, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Foundation, Web browser |
By Robin Monks on February 21, 2010
We might finally get more people off of IE, FINALLY. It might seem like a minor thing, but it isn’t. Microsoft has been fined billions over browser choice (or lack thereof) in Windows, and the solution that finally satisfied EU regulators was a browser choice screen, which would let users choose a web browser rather [...]
Posted in Drupal, Free Software, Policy and Law | Tagged Internet Explorer, Microsoft, Web browser, Windows 7, Windows Update |
By Robin Monks on February 14, 2010
via rss.slashdot.org I so, totally, want one of these….badly.
Posted in Bugs, Video | Tagged Mosquitoes, Slashdot |
By Robin Monks on February 13, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Another question I recently answered on Aardvark, thought it would be useful to more folks as well. Where can i get the Nexus One in Canada and will it work on Fido? The first thing to note is you can’t get Nexus One’s that easily if you’re in Canada, since, the Google [...]
Posted in Q&A | Tagged Canada, Google, Nexus One, Tools |
By Robin Monks on February 12, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Here’s a question I get hit up on Aardvark with earlier today: I have a very very big collection of music in iTunes. I want to move to Linux but I don’t know if the players can handle 200,000+ files as efficiently as iTunes. Help? The answer, is rather simple. Â Songbird is [...]
Posted in Free Software, Q&A | Tagged Digital rights management, Hardware Support, itunes, Linux, Operating system, songbird |
