I had to go with the wholly unoriginal headline, but this news (thanks to JL) makes my day. I’m glad they are reviving Futurama, hopefully it’ll replace the crap that is Drawn Together The ‘Futurama’ is Now: Comedy Central Revives Series (TVWeek) Five years after Fox canceled the animated comedy, 20th Century Fox TV has […]
We’re guilty of using guesses/gut feelings when putting a site together. Nielsen reminds us that even a few data points can help make better design decisions. Guesses vs. Data as Basis for Design Recommendations (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) The general guideline is to use relative font sizes that let users resize (if they know how), but
With the World Cup barely a year away, there’s a packed slate of results I’ll be watching this week. Will the US continue its relatively straightforward qualification to another appearance? Can Bolivia maintain the slimmest hopes of qualifying alive? Costa Rica vs USA – Wednesday, June 3rd. The Americans have never won, a tie would
I finally got around to upgrading my dual-boot desktop PC to running Windows XP. It was just about time, the version of windows I was running was no longer supported and more and more software requires Windows XP nowadays. I also wanted to start using my Windows partition for more than World of Warcraft and
Drupal provides a lot of hooks that you can leverage to make it work exactly how you want. I just finished tracing how some theme preprocessing functions were being executed, and realized that there are some subtle assumptions which I hadn’t understood earlier. These are my notes about two specific preprocessing hooks and when they
Lessons from wresting with Drupal’s theme preprocessing functions. Read More »
The only other annoyance was how long it took for them to crack down on this practice. FTC nukes “extended warranty” robocallers from orbit – Ars Technica If you live in the US, you probably got a call—even 911 dispatchers did. That’s because the telemarketers, based in Chicago and Florida, used robodialing systems to call
There are serious scientific studies that refute the whole Vaccines cause Autism myth, so slate asks: Why is Oprah Winfrey promoting vaccine skeptic Jenny McCarthy? – By Arthur Allen – Slate Magazine For some reason, Oprah and the rest of the entertainment world treat McCarthy as if she were Mother Theresa kissing lepers or Nelson
Please don’t get medical advice from Jenny McCarthy. Read More »
On development, testing, and staging site you normally don’t want Drupal’s caching, and javascript/css aggregation features enabled. Drop the following into your sites settings.php file to override these settings. // disable performance caching$conf[‘cache’] = 0;$conf[‘block_cache’] = 0;$conf[‘preprocess_css’] = 0;$conf[‘preprocess_js’] = 0;
Development Enviroment for Drupal is an article I wish I’d found a year ago when it was originaly posted. Its an extensive description of how to use svn and other tools to maintain various Drupal environments synchronized. I’m pleased that it confirms my own decisions about how to use subversion to manage core and site-specific
You don’t need to convince me that babies are more aware/intelligent than we give them credit for. They have to synthesize and absorb a lot of information to make sense of their world. And then, one morning, they surprise you by spontaneously saying “water” when you’re refilling the dog’s dish. Inside the baby mind –