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 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 2, 2010
Image via Wikipedia TV shows like MacGyver and Junk Yard Wars, as well as real world survival and minimalist training [even camping] tell us that it’s cool to take bits of whatever is lying around, and jury-rig it into something useful, and potentially vital to our survival. Today as I was thinking about the plethora [...]
Posted in Development, Drupal, Standards | Tagged Action and Adventure, Add new tag, Cascading Style Sheets, Data Formats, HTML, HTML5, MacGyver, Markup Languages, Television, Video |
By Robin Monks on February 13, 2009
[This whole post is written tounge-in-cheek. Â Please don't flame/bash/perl or python the author.] I just did an upgrade from WordPress 2.7 to 2.7.1, and it was completely done in under 5 seconds. Didn’t need to connect to SSH, didn’t need to connect to FTP. I click two buttons and my blog was running the latest [...]
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By Robin Monks on January 16, 2009
If you’ve been using Drupal for any amount of time you’ve probably ran into the problem of needing to go to the access page each time you enable a module to ensure the admin users have permission to make full use of it. This is a module that I was planning to write, but then [...]
Posted in Drupal, Uncategorized | Tagged Content Management, Drupal, Module, Programming |
By Robin Monks on January 15, 2009
Back in the day, the CivicSpace theme was designed by Chris Messina (factoryjoe on twitter, amazingly tallented guy) for CivicSpace. Â The theme was designed to make it incredibly easy for grass roots organizations and campaigns to develop a site that had the style and features they would need for their campaign or community to suceed. [...]
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By Robin Monks on January 11, 2009
 In my wishlist last month, one of the items I had on my list that didn’t already have a solution, was the ability to have a message when a user created a node that would present them with a quick way to add another node of the same type. Today, I’m happy to say [...]
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By Robin Monks on January 3, 2009
Image via Wikipedia If anyone missed that deal, here is another for $97 off any yearly plan, and $51 off a monthly plan (no known expiration date). Â The coupon code is rm0 (are-emm-zero), and, since all the dicounts are set to the maximum possible, I don’t get any kickbacks from anyone using this (just like [...]
Posted in Drupal, Saving Money | Tagged Coupon, DreamHost |
