Darrel O'Pry --living one bug at a time...

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Mime Types and Multimedia Handling... ARG!!!

I really dislike working with MIME types, but they're a fact of life. The MIME type system does a great job of serving of its original purpose of describing data for transfer between different systems and associating data to applications that are capable of displaying the data.

Imagecache 2.x Beta

I've recently been working on imagecache 2.x... It's not the original update I planned with the full transformer conversion, but a major rewrite none the less. ImageCache 2.x is currently feature complete and ready for testing.

Punk for the jaded... Poster Boy Material

I'm a jaded post punk punk rocker, you got a problem with it? I never dug the fashion element, nor the angry element. I always loved the political and consciously rebellious elements. I missed the real punk era, the Vandals, Sex Pistols, Cramps, et. al. I did catch the waning tide of op ivy, dead kennedys, mxpx, pennywise, nofx, nomeansno, etc, etc...

One Approch to DDL abstraction.

I've been playing with DDL abstraction for Drupal. My current idea is to mimic the SQL-92 syntactical structure as an array. I'm working on the assumption that the generic SQL-92 clause ordering is consistent it is only the clauses themselves that need to be translated. I am going to assume that we use mysql datatypes by default so the values in the data definition array will be familar to mysql users.

My home entertainment system....

I'm in love with electronic music and social gatherings. I've been helping produce and promote electronic music events since I moved to New York. I've always wanted my own sound system. I've been eyeing and auditioning EAW's for years. I've worked with them professionally and never been disappointed. I really want them, but they're too expensive for me to justify the cost.

Web 2.0 project management done right!

I keep coming across cool applications lately, and Dev Shop is definately a nice one for developers everywhere. On a recent project, I got stuck with arduous task of being the project manager and keeping time lines for about 5 people, while trying to manage myself and my own time.

Geocoder aka fun with Google's Map API

A while back I had a client who needed to do a short run geocoding job, just a couple hundred address from an excel sheet. I could not find a free short run geocoding service, so I wrote a geocoder module

Hooray for reflections.

Today, I finally got around to setting up reflection.js. I must say, these little javascript doodads are awesome and easy to setup. I'm going to slowly turn this garland theme into my own. :)

The News is NowPublic, I'm working for NowPublic.com.

Today, what started with a short discussion at DrupalCampNYC2, has come to fruition. I'm working for NowPublic, and I'm really excited. It's not often an opportunity comes my way to work on something I believe in, and people's empowerment is high on my list of @todo's.

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