So Marti Gras weekend was great! I'm so fraking sore form Wii that it's not even funny. Well maybe a little bit funny... Snugs and his wife were in town as well as Dave, so we all hung out at Dana's, drank, and played Wii for 8 hours straight! It was a blast, a good time was had by all. This video is of Dave and Dana boxing, but we bowled a hell of a lot more. We almost all hit pro by the end of the night (3am). Too bad for Amy, who hurt her leg earlier in the day and was not able to bowl very much, but she did pretty well sitting down, even on her Vikoden!
I've started a project on drupal.org to contribute a module that will allow loading of new themes into Drupal from a compressed file (zip, gzip) that is either on your local hard drive, or from a web URL (curl support required?). View Project on drupal.org
It's a basic idea and I'm hoping to get some feedback from the Drupal community on how best to execute this. The idea came about when a friend of mine mentioned that he had introduced his brother (a Joomla user) to Drupal and got some feedback from him on what he thought Drupal was lacking.
The first thing mentioned was the weight system. Joomla uses a system similar to that which is implemented in the Views module where you can hit and up or down arrow to resort content. I heard mention that someone has been working on a module to do sortables with Drupal's new jQuery library, but it looks to be a 4.7 implementation so far.
I've not really seen much discussion on drupal.org about a theme installation interface, so I figure since it would help convert users and there is some good interest at least outside the drupal community, it may take some hold.
I spent the week of January 15th in Providence, RI with a group known as Lullabot learning the ins and outs of Drupal. I've been working with Drupal for a while now, about 2 years in fact, and had learned quite a lot on my own by reading the Drupal Handbook and hacking the core (which really is a no-no, but a great way to learn). When my buddy Dave told me about the workshop Lullabot was having, I looked into it and convinced Shawn to get work to pay for it and let me go for the whole week. Since my Aunt and Uncle live near Providence, I asked them if I could stay with them and it just so happened that the week was filled with birthdays! Two of my cousins and my Uncle's birthdays were that week. What luck! Carmen and Frank were more then happy to have me up for a week and I was so glad to get to spend some time with them. I lived with them for a summer when I was 17 and I've missed them ever since.
Christopher just got his tattoo and as you can see it's almost exactly like Cody's. So I'll be getting mine as soon as I get some time and I'm going to keep the design as close to theirs as possible.
Here's Cody's tattoo. I'm going to schedule mine sometime this week, and Chris has his scheduled for next Saturday. I've also attached the original that Cody based his off of.
From left to right, top to bottom, those are my initials, Bryant's initials, my Dad's initials in the center, Cody's initials, and Chris's initials.
We had all planned on getting this tattoo together with our Dad, but he died before we ever got a chance to do so. If you ever have a chance to do something like this with your father, don't wait. Do it as soon as possible. You will not regret it.
I purchased a new Macbook Pro, 15" with 1G RAM and 256VRAM ATI Graphics and it is incredible! Not only does everything look so much better then windoze, but the operating system is just so much better.
Mac's have historically been favored by the more technically inclined, but the newer ones are definatly taking into account the less technically savvy end-user and catering to their needs as well. Everything from how the system works, to how it runs, to how you install/uninstall applications is just SO much better. What the hell was I thinking when I told my friend he was crazy for being a MacHead. I'm sorry Chris Jones! I've seen the light! Take me to the great Woz!
Don't cry, it's true. But let me tell you about how I first came about my savior.
My first Drupal child was a project we call the Resource Center. When I say we, I mean Shawn Priesz, Kevin Poust, and me. I started off with writing a login system for a project Shawn had built that takes registered users from our main company's website (c-sgroup.com) and gives our sales representatives the information of those users, that live in their respective area, along with what product details they were downloading. I know what you're thinking, 'Big Brother type stuff, eh?'. Well maybe a little, but these are our REGISTERED users and they know that their information is kept within the company. Or at least that's what helps me sleep at night. In any case, we needed a way for our sales reps to log in before they could see the information so that it was not readily available to just anyone.
So I worked for a while on a login script and built it around this reporting program (after converting it from ASP to PHP) and finally had a working system when alas, I found Drupal. Praise be. A system that already did what I was looking to do AND MORE.
So my brothers and I have wanted to get a tattoo for a while now that is in remembrance of our father who died one month ago today. Here is a preliminary sketch I did in Illustrator. We're going to have this the basis of the tattoo and have the artist get more creative with it, personalize each one.
I want mine to have better knots in it... I'm not very good at designing Celtic knots. The initials probably a little bigger ... maybe just my dad's initials bigger. Anyway, I know mine is going on my left arm as a shield because my dad was left handed. It's also where the cancer attacked him.
But I'll be sure to post pics of all of our tattoos once we get them.
For a while, I've been annoyed by the default way Drupal displays it's login box automatically if you're not signed in. So I usually just put a link in the footer or primary links to 'user' after enabling clean urls. This works great, but when I did it with Drupal 5, I found that the link that should be entitled Login, was changed to My account!
Christopher just got his tattoo and as you can see it's almost exactly like Cody's. So I'll be getting mine as soon as I get some time and I'm going to keep the design as close to theirs as possible.
Here's Cody's tattoo. I'm going to schedule mine sometime this week, and Chris has his scheduled for next Saturday. I've also attached the original that Cody based his off of.
I purchased a new Macbook Pro, 15" with 1G RAM and 256VRAM ATI Graphics and it is incredible! Not only does everything look so much better then windoze, but the operating system is just so much better. 