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 of hacks we need to do something…
[This whole post is written tounge-in-cheek. 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 and greatest WordPress. Why are they allowed…
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 I discovered JacobSingh had already made it; Admin Role is…
Back in the day, the CivicSpace theme was designed by Chris Messina (factoryjoe on twitter, amazingly tallented guy) for CivicSpace. 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. Unfortunately, the theme has gone down-hill with…
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 I’ve created a new contrib module that…
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). 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 I didn’t get kickbacks from the link…
[Dec 18-08: I’ve updated my list below with solutions and issue URLs, where possible.] Yesterday, Steve Dondley (owner/founder @ Prometheus Labor) and myself were working on some very repetitive work for a client site; discussing how we can’t wait for the intelligent CMS to come along and do all this repetitive work for us. This got me thinking. A lot of the…
This just made me laugh. Thanks to Glazblog for sharing! Also worth noting that the JavaScript engine in the next version of Firefox will be FASTER than Google Chrome. 🙂