When discussing the benefits of open-source frameworks (especially Drupal), I've often heard, "But if everyone has access to the source code, how...
Imagination time: Imagine for a moment that you have an app, it has one button and one little window. When you click the button it changes the text...
Convincing people that 10% time is valuable can sometimes be a chore but I'm probably one of the luckiest guys in the country because my bosses...
You know that button on the website you want to change? The one that looks like it was designed in 1999? Guess what? It was designed in 1999, and so...
Here's a tiny shopping cart block for Ubercart that fits right in with the menu. Of course the standard block could be themed this way, but this is...
If you haven't already heard of it, the Theme Developer is a great tool. It works like firebug, but for Drupal.
As someone who has worked in the web industry for over 10 years, I've seen a lot of friction between designers and developers.
When you first start creating a Drupal theme, you might be frustrated by the large number of stylesheets that are included by default in your theme...
The toad just finished a small project involving the Facebook API and by far the most confusing aspect of the project was the terminology regarding...
Is your unix-based system time out of sync? If it is out of sync by more that 1000 seconds, you will need to manually force it back into sync.
If you've ever worked with a rich data model in drupal you know it can be a pain to load up all the children and parents of a node within the...
So there we were, facing a Flash based video player that could have multiple tabs of many videos apiece.
During the theming process for the Emmys, specifically Emmys.com and Emmys.tv, we were presented with 2 differently styled marquees. On Emmys.com,...
In the discussion following my last post about cron and the cache hit rate, I promised to do
By default, Ubercart sets the breadcrumb on the checkout page to simply "Home", which I personally find a bit odd. Because it calls...
A lot of what's written about performance tuning for Drupal is focused on large sites, and benchmarking is often done by requesting the same page...
Lately I've been working on a project to allow drupal to intelligently manage legacy data, to display, edit, and work with all aspects of the data as...
A strange quirk in Drupal 6 hard-codes comment rendering into the node module. This makes it quite difficult to reposition comments, for instance...
In my last post, a basic intro to to running cap deploy was presented. Now, let's look at some more advanced scenarios. (See Part 1 for the actual...
If you have ever spent any time around software development, (especially here in Portland with our amazing open-source community) you'll know that...
I'm a big fan of having an automated deployment process. It's really the web development analog to the "one step build process", as described in the...
The latest 6.x-2.9 release of SimpleTest includes a backport of the e-mail capture feature from D7. This means you can finally unit test e-mail...
Of all the powerful words in any language assertion is in my opinion the absolute most powerful. With affermative language we are able to create...
Facebook networks are one of the major ways that it allows people to connect to each other. Networks come in a few different types including: Regions...
It's well known the iPhone can play H.264 video. With tools like ffmpeg, hooking this up to Drupal ought to be simple, right? Here are a few snags I...