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The Return of Drupal?

I’m excited by the possibility of work with Drupal again. It’s been a few years since I really dug into it, and I l know it’s improved quite a bit since then.

Although I seem to be running almost half a dozen WordPress sites nowadays, and love it as a blogging platform, Drupal just seems to fix what this new project is, sort of an intranet/extranet combo site.

The module list seems about 10 times longer than the last time I looked at it. I tell ya, the power of open-source. ;)

If any Drupal hackers out there want to offer me any advice, please do…

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I am a (Contributing) Author!

I’ve been writing this blog for almost 10 9* years now, and before that I published magazines, and music, and other things, but it’s true what they say, and actual book, is still pretty neat.

Videoblogging Book

A few years ago, I was asked to contribute to a technical book, but had to decline at the time due to prior commitments. Then last year, I wrote a whole bunch of stuff for a book about videoblogging that was supposed to be put out by that publisher that tends to show an animal on the cover. That didn’t happen, but what did happen is that the authors found another publisher, and got the book done, and some of my writing is in it.

So if you see the book Videoblogging published by Wiley (as part of their ExtremeTech series) take a look at the third page of the “About the Contributing Authors” section, and you will see my name. I still haven’t read the whole thing, but I’ve seen my writing on pages 312 and 327.

In the interest of disclosure, I will note that I do not make any money from the sale of this book. I still think you should buy it if you are interested in videoblogging though…

(* I meant to say 9, not 10, I can’t count…)

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The Wanker Standard

Look, I’ve worked with internal combustion, and I’ve worked with wankers, and let me tell you, when Dave says it ain’t worth arguing about, he is soooo wrong!

Yeah, a car is all about getting places right? No, it’s about getting there in style! It’s about being compliant when you get there, and having a good specification, and a validator. What good is your internal combustion car when it does not validate! It’s not even a valid car! Now a wanker, we all know about wankers. (If you don’t, read up on Wankers.) Wankers are a dream to deal with, just ask one of your friends in one of those countries that adds the letter U to words that don’t need it. (Maybe those Flickr folks know, but then again, they are missing an E, did thy evr notic tht?)

Anyway, if I had to describe RSS, and couldn’t describe it as ‘feeding whales apple pies’ I supposed it would say it’s “like information, only it keeps on coming at you, and the only way to stop it is to unsubscribe…”

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CSS Sucks (Sort of…)

CSS does not suck, but it can be a bit frustrating…

On a recent project, I started building a pure-CSS drop-down menu system. It worked… Sort of… In some browsers… Almost. In total, I probably spent two days reading, testing, tweaking, and reload and at the end I gave up, because as much as I love CSS, and wanted a pure-CSS solution to work for this particular project, I just couldn’t spend any more time on it. I ended up deleting the 50 or so extra lines of CSS the menu system needed, and went with the gMenu system, which uses a combination of CSS (yay!) and Javascript (ugh!) and works. Oh, it’s also open-source.

I’m still not 100% set on gMenu, so if you have another suggestion, please let me know. I would prefer a pure-CSS solution without Javascript, but I don’t think that will work. What do you use for drop-down menu systems?


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BarCampMilwaukee Part III

BarCampMilwaukee

Ok folks, if you are interested in BarCampMilwaukee, check out the wiki page: BarCampMilwaukee

I’m hoping barcampmilwaukee.com shows up soon (and I’d be happy to host it) but for now, let’s get moving using the BarCamp resources we have available. Who’s with me? Justin? Jordan? Jeremy?