Tag: drupal

Today, I started working on converting the Spry Group website to Drupal. The current site is a static site which we rather hurriedly tossed up while starting the business to at least have an online presence. We've been wanting to add some contact forms and blogs and update the content to reflect the direction our business has taken since we started the adventure.

Join the ImageScale.co Private Beta. Around the beginning of the year I ran in to Benjamin Melançon of Agaric . We got to talking about ImageCache . In the course of the conversation Ben suggested that I build ImageCache as a service.

At long last I've upgraded to D7.

I'm finally comfortable enough with my Image* namespace to have official releases of the 2.x series of ImageField and ImageCache + ImageAPI... I'd like to extend thanks to everyone who has filed issues and submitted patches, especially Drewish and Quicksketch.

Writing simpletests for imagecache_create_url and file_create_url today, I had to change a few of Drupal's persistent variables, namely clean_url and file_downloads. I was kind of frustrated by the need to save the old values, set the values I needed for the test case, run the test, then restore the old variables. The process itself is a little dangerous in the case where you hit runtime fatal errors and the variables never get restored.

I have a love hate relationship with microformats. The apostles who think they're the end all be all of the semantic web drive me insane. 'Semantic Web' aside, microformats are a powerful approache to reusable design. Consistent markup with the appropriate JS or CSS can make for great reusable UI widgets.

ImageMagick support has been a release blocker on this module for me. My attempts at using the Imagick extension failed, and I finally broke down and wrote the imageapi_imagemagick module, and it needs testing.

For OSCMS, over a year ago, I wrote a module called geolocation as an example CCK field. It has languished in CVS forquite a while, I finally set up a project for it today, and I'm looking for a co-maintainer.

I had a great time at DrupalCampNYC.... I stuck myself in the Hack Shack, where I should probably keep myself as jaded as I've been lately. Ate me some tasty Bagels and got to help a few folks out... I even gave a presentation on workflow in Drupal 5. (Yes I occasionally show for my sessions.)

Hooray, we're about 2 weeks away from DrupalCampNYC 4 I sorta had a good time at DrupalCon 2008. If it weren't for the overpriced convention center,marketing sermons slyly disguised as sessions, stale presentations that I've seen a few times now, and inflated attendant pricing, I would say it was awesome. I don't think I'll be attending another DrupalCon unless it's an excuse to expense a trip to Europe.