Solving my own problems, word.

http://drupal.org/node/640780

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
     if ((arg(0) == 'taxonomy') && (arg(1) == 'term') && (arg(2) == $term_id_to_trigger_show_block)) {
          $make_block_visible = TRUE;
     }
     // NODES
     if (arg(0) == 'node' && arg(1) && is_numeric(arg(1))) {
          $node = node_load(arg(1));
          foreach ($node->taxonomy as $term) {
               if ($term->tid == $term_id_to_trigger_show_block) $make_block_visible = TRUE;
          }
      }
      return $make_block_visible;
?>

Reference http://drupal.org/node/320795

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)) {
     $node = node_load(arg(1));
     $taxonomy_terms = $node->taxonomy;
     foreach ($taxonomy_terms as $term) {
          if ($term->vid == 2) {
               $ld_bg = $term->name;
          }
      }
    }
?>

<img src="/sites/all/themes/collective/img/<?php print $ld_bg; ?>_bkg.jpg" border="0" alt="<?php print $ld_bg; ?>" />

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 since it is a staging environment with only developers and a few others testing on it. When you launch a project on a site with decent traffic, that is when you can start having some issues. GWO and GA usually work together fairly well but I have run a couple of experiments that jogged the GAs numbers as soon as you implemented GWO.
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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 this may be my new more convenient way to publish my blogs. Publishing from the text editor I do the most work should prod me to blog more often and hopefully better.

Many thanks to Kristan Kenny for her very helpful post.

Seems like that blog has been deactivated, there is plenty of documentation about this on the Textmate site itself, happy blogging!

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 tutorial on w3 schools. The most important sentence for newbies to XSLT is the statment “XSLT transforms an XML source-tree into an XML result-tree.”

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