Blogs
Drupal Views Boomarks vs 'Promoted to frontpage'
- Taxonomy terms - has the disadvantage of being listed in the term listing for that node unless you do extra work to exclude the vocabulary
- Re-purpose the 'promote to frontpage', or 'Sticky' settings already provide in Drupal - can have side-effects by affecting the promote and sticky features; since this is a 'misuse' of features
- Views Bookmarks - This module provides the features of the above alternatives without the disadvantages of either option.
Adjusting element transparency in IE and Firefox
Standards compliant browsers (FF, Safari etc) and IE browsers require different CSS selector definitions to implement transparency. Here is what is necessary to set the following element to 50% transparency.
div#header
{
opacity: 0.5;
filter: alpha(opacity = 50);
}
Why I stray from Web Standards ...
Website content above the fold?
Apple Safari is benefiting Internet Explorer?
Reusable CSS: make your life easier
Handling Elaborate projects using Worketc template sub-projects
We all have specialties in what we do, and this results in similar projects, or projects with similar steps. For example, I implement Content Management Systems using Drupal. For each CMS implementation project, there are sub-projects called
Drupal Shell that speeds up doing the things Drupal CMS admins do!
Most of use welcomed the GUI/Graphical User Interface kind of life when it because the norm... OK, remember the first time you used Windows (after using MS-DOS or PC-DOS or worse, Unix Shell)? that is the relief that I am talking about. But like many things flashy, we mostly get bored with the GUI and want to know what is going on in the dark engine-room.
Products, Services, Solutions, what could be the difference?
Things sold to customers for money are often listed as one of the above. It is relatively easy to distinguish products from services:
- Products are physical are physical entities that are manufactured from raw materials and exchanged on a unitary basis for a fixed cost
- Services are non-physical entities that are often a result of the application of know-how, skills and technology to transform a given situation
The distinguishing element in the above definition is the physical, and non-physical nature of each entity
A review of the Rackspace CloudSites elastic managed web hosting
Concurrently with my review of the Media Temple (mt) Grid Hosting Service, I took some time to review, and even install Drupal in the Rackspace CloudSites hosting environment. My main motivation for testing the Rackspace CloudSites offering was to find a hosting solution that was monitored, robust, flexible, and extensible.
