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  • DRY? How about DRC: Don't Repeat the (Drupal) Community

    Submitted by Lin on Mon, 2009-06-22 13:38
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    This post is alternately titled "Oh Menu Trails, where have you been all my weekend?"

    I recently posted a list of some modules that are great for making conventional, menu hierarchy based sites in Drupal.

    As I was posting that list, however, I was facing a menu based crisis. For a small part of the site, I needed my menu to have onstates set and breadcrumbs created based on the current node's taxonomy term. Sounds easy, right? When I started the project, I didn't even think to check whether there was a module to do that... because of course there would be! right?

  • Drupal Pittsburgh June: Best modules for new Drupal users

    Submitted by Lin on Thu, 2009-06-18 15:14
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    We had the fourth Drupal Pittsburgh meeting on Tuesday at the Brillobox.

    In contrast to most of our meetings, new users outweighed the old hands at this one, so it turned into a session introducing everyone to those essential modules that make Drupal work in the way that every noob thinks it should (and we were all noobs once upon a time).

  • May's Drupal Pittsburgh notes up as a wiki

    Submitted by Lin on Wed, 2009-05-27 23:56

    What an awesome night! We had some amazing discussions at Sushi Too, ranging from unionizing Gmail users to monetizing Twitter by selling other people's tweets on t-shirts. And there was some Drupal stuff in there too ;)

  • Universities in RDF

    Submitted by Lin on Sat, 2009-05-02 11:28

    What if you could find all of the academics working in your field across all universities in the world with a simple, SQL-like query? What if you could filter your search based on the region the academics are working in, the projects they have worked on, the languages they speak and then get a list of the courses that they offer? All with one query.

    I don't know about you, but I totally geek out over that prospect.

  • Moving towards CSS 3

    Submitted by Lin on Tue, 2009-04-07 19:48

    This paper was writen in the Spring of 2009. The assignment was to carve out one area of current W3C standardization activity and develop an assessment of the state of the standardization effort.

    <tootmyownhorn>
      The professor who assigned it said, "This is the finest effort I have seen to date on this assignment."
    </tootmyownhorn>.