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Drupal: How do I pull a CCK field from a node associated with a menu-item into a menu block

  • November 25th, 2009
  • Posted in Web

Solving my own problems, word. http://drupal.org/node/640780 [ READ MORE ]

Drupal: Using taxonomy term to control block visibility

  • November 23rd, 2009
  • Posted in Web

Documenting this code, it was useful in a recent project Displays a block on node or listing page <?php $make_block_visible = FALSE; // the term id to show this block on $term_id_to_trigger_show_block = 1; // LISTING PAGE. taxonomy/terms/x [ READ MORE ]

Drupal – Using a taxonomy term to control a section header on page.tpl.php

  • November 17th, 2009
  • Posted in Web

Wanted to store this here, I ended up not using it but I wanted to keep it in case I needed it in the future. <!-- Get taxonomy term, ID 2 (section background image) to write out section header --> <?php if (arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) && !arg(2)) { [ READ MORE ]

GWOes

  • August 14th, 2009
  • Posted in Web

Ever have one of those days where it just seems impossible to debug the code? GWO is not your friend or mine when it comes to debugging. You can easily set up the experiment to look at your staging server and test like that but you are not going to get too many visits and/or conversions [ READ MORE ]

Blogging with TextMate, another first post

  • May 20th, 2009
  • Posted in Web

I just started working with TextMate to see if I can start using it as my main code editor (on my Mac). It turns out to have a nifty “post to blog” feature for use with all of the top blogging platforms (Joomla, Druplal, Wordpress et all). As nice as the Wordpress API is, I think [ READ MORE ]

XSL, XSLT

  • May 1st, 2009
  • Posted in Web

I wanted to do some experimenting with XSL (extensible styles sheets) and XSLT (XSLT is used to transform an XML document into another XML document, or another type of document that is recognized by a browser, like HTML and XHTML.) I did my initial hunt on the web and came across a pretty thorough [ READ MORE ]

Google Web Optimizer – Part 1

  • April 20th, 2009
  • Posted in Web

During December 2008 at TAKKLE I began to explore Google’s Website Optimizer tool. It seemed like a great tool to do testing for a lot of projects I was involved in. A lot of business decisions can come through knee jerk reactions and a lot of those decisions get passed down from “HiPPO”s, Highest Paid [ READ MORE ]

Accessibility and Validation: ARIA_Required

  • February 5th, 2009
  • Posted in Web

While making sure all my code was validation via w3 (http://validator.w3.org/) I kept receiving an error on my single post page. After tracking this down to the comment form that exists on all single post page, I read up on the attribute. There is a good explanation here… http://dev.aol.com/accessibility/bestpractices/ARIA_Required Accessibility has always been in the back of my [ READ MORE ]

CSS3 and beyond

  • January 9th, 2009
  • Posted in Web

I’m trying to experiment with some new CSS3 properties on the site, one example is the rounded and transparent block items within the content (sorry IE6 users, you’ll have to take my word on it). Here are a couple of great articles on the future of CSS, some new properties and their browser limitations. The [ READ MORE ]

Google Interview – Part 1

  • January 2nd, 2009
  • Posted in Web

I received an introductory email via Linkedin from a Google recruiter asking if I had interest in working for the Big G. I wasn't looking for work at the time but thought that if anything it would be a great learning experience and see how they handle their hiring practices[ READ MORE ]

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