2009

If you're looking to build your own style plugins for Drupal's Panels module, the following post will step you through how to do so. The functions and files you'll need to declare are a bit arcane and this beats stepping through the panels code yourself.  I've found the rounded corners plugin that ships with panels […]

Please ignore this post, which makes the utterly ridiculous recommendation that customers should care about what tools developers use in their work.  Programming is such an individualized task that what works for one person will not necessarily work for someone else.   That's why, when talking about tools, I like to describe why *I* like

Confused by the new privacy settings rolling out on Facebook?  The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a thorough run down of the changes and recommendations for keeping what you post as private as possible.  The best way to keep stuff private, of course, is not to share anything you don't want made public.  This is

Nigel Reed gives a good summary over what's at stake as MLS's Collective Bargaining Agreement runs out next month.  It'd be a disaster to have a work stoppage in a World Cup year.  But then again, outside of MLS's hard core fans, who'd really notice? By global standards, MLS and its players union is a

The FeedAPi module is a nice little workhorse module that can create nodes out of item from an RSS or Atom feed.  Couple it with the Views module, you have a very low effort aggregation solution.  But since FeedAPI creates a node for each item, Views will link to the node on your own site

So really, the better indicator of how well the children of immigrants will do is not their race/ethnicity/skin color, but the education level achieved by their parents.  Is this different than for other groups?  Why is this even a news story?  Oh wait, its NOT. Perhaps the only yardstick by which the second generation has

My instincts are that its a way to feel good about buying yourself that shiny new iPod.  A way for the marketers to help assuage your guilt of being just another consumer.  Isn't it better, especially for the recipients of any donation, for people to donate directly? Of course, you'll want to research the organization

That Evo would win was pretty much a foregone conclusion.  The rest of the analysis is very good, particularly the prediction that votes from the exterior could really make a difference in the future.  I didn't realize it could be larger than some regions voting population. Official results aren't out yet. But here's what we

Probably the dumbest sentence I'll ready today.   With all the caveats that their analysis is designed to look at trends over time and not the outcome of one game, the June 12 match-up between the US and England in South Africa will be a mini-test case for their theory. US vs England – A

Who has two thumbs and won't be voting republican anytime soon? That's a story which then goes on to note that 60 percent of the same cohort believes that the GOP puts "too little" emphasis on government spending and 60 percent say it puts too little on "economy and jobs." If You're Thinking of Voting