String Overrides for Drupal 5
A while ago, I put together a very simple module named String Overrides. It provided an interface that used some new functionality in Drupal 6 to easily replace strings without the use of the locale or...
View ArticleBattle Plan for Drupal 7: Services
Now that Drupal 7 is open for development, people have started thinking about their personal battle plans for the next release. In the announcement, Dries mentioned the 11 wish list items that the...
View ArticleFun with the Wiimote
Johnny Chung Lee has been doing some pretty brilliant stuff with the Wiimote. He has been using the Managed Library for the Nintendo Wiimote to create C# applications that use the Wiimote in different...
View ArticleDrupal 6? What about Drupal 7?
Drupal 6 was released last week and everyone has been talking about how much greater it is than the previous release. I particularly like how powerful the new menu system is, the new caching and...
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Drupalcon, Here I Come!
Next week, more than 800 people will gather in Boston and talk about Drupal for four full days. This annual event is known as Drupalcon, and it will be the first one I'll be attending.The sessions will...
View ArticleDrupalcon Sessions for Monday
This is a list of sessions I'll be attending at Drupalcon tomorrow:Site Building: Drupal MultimediaThis session will show you how to bridge the gap between Drupal and multimedia. Drupal is cutting...
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Thank You, Drupalcon
I'd like to send a thank you to all who were involved with this year's Drupalcon. It was the first Drupalcon I have attended, and will most definitely not be the last.The sessions were amazing and I...
View ArticleStripping Drupal
There is a lot of functionality crammed into Drupal. This can be a good and bad thing. One of the key benefits is that its components are well maintained. You have hundreds of smart people looking at...
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Drupal Easter: Druplegg
When Easter approaches, my family has a strange tradition of decorating Easter Eggs. Although it requires a lot of patience, you end up with brilliantly coloured, pretty, eggs. See these eggs for a...
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TOJam 3
The third Toronto Independent Game Jam has been announced for May 9th, 10th and 11th. TOJam is an annual event in Toronto where game developers of all ages come together and spend the whole weekend...
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Make Skype Calls on the iPhone
For those of you who have an iPhone, a very handy new application was launched for it called Fring. Once you've installed it, you can connect to a number of different services like AIM, MSN, ICQ, but...
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Garland-looking Twitter Page
I was recently playing around with the design of my twitter page and got it to look like Garland, the default design for Drupal. A number of you have asked me about it, so I thought I'd publish the...
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Migrating from Locale to String Overrides
The issue with using the Locale module to translate single strings on your site for tweaking text is that it gives you a performance hit. When the Locale module is used for this, it can make a query to...
View ArticleDrupal Websites on the iPhone
As more people use internet-enabled mobile phones, like the iPhone, the demand for mobile-enabled websites grows. Everyone likes to have their own information in their own hands, all the time. Creating...
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SUSE Studio: Recipe for the Drupal OS?
The SUSE Linux guys just launched a new service called SUSE Studio. With it, you can create an operating system running SUSE, and your own checklist of packages. If you watch the screencast, you see...
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Disqus and Drupal: Rethinking Comments
For those of you who don't know what Disqus is, it's a web service that provides a slick enhancement to comments in websites. Usually when you visit a website, you see a discussion going. This...
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Parents Anniversary in the Toronto Star
My parents were featured in the Toronto Star today: Patti and John Loach.It's a great article, that covers their affiliation with Patricia Zentilli (IMDB), how they met, what they're doing musically,...
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Druplicon Getting Some Love
People who talk with others on IRC, particularly on #Drupal, will be happy to know that our loving IRC bot, Druplicon, is getting some love. Druplicon, if you don't know, is the IRC bot that idles in...
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Quicksketch + Webchick = Drupal Love
For those of you who have been living in a rock and don't know who Nate Haug or Angie Byron are, they are Lullabots, and huge people behind the Drupal community. Nate was largely responsible for the...
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Turning Drupal into a Distributed Twitter/Micro-Blog
One thing that has really blown up in the past two years is micro-blogging and the idea of sending little updates to a mass majority of people at once. These updates are public, and users can...
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Drupal's Next Generation Database Layer
Everyone rejoice, as Dries has just committed the long standing Drupal Database Layer: The Next Generation patch. This was one of the items on my original Drupal 7 wishlist, and is one of the major...
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Drupal 7 Code Freeze = Two Months?
There was some talk recently about releasing pre-alpha versions of Drupal 7 for development and testing purposes and this got me thinking about the actual Drupal 7 code freeze. For those of you who are...
View ArticleDrupal 7.0 Unstable Releases Begin!
In listening to the pleading voices of many developers, the infamous Drupal 7 maintainer, webchick, just created the first unstable release of Drupal 7: Drupal 7 Unstable 1. Thank you, Angie!These...
View ArticleUnspoken Rules of Drupal
Many of you know some of the unspoken rules of Drupal. But, I have a feeling that I have to reiterate them once more for everyone:1. Do not hack coreNo matter how easy it seems to change one little...
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Steven Wittens featured in Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine today featured Steven Wittens' blog as one of their 50 Beautiful Blog Designs. For those of you know don't know Steven, he contributed much what made Drupal both pretty and awesome,...
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Doing It With Drupal
Next week marks the beginning of Do It With Drupal, the three day conference made of pure awesome held in New Orleans.I'm really getting excited to seeing all the Drupalfolk again, as well as meeting...
View ArticleOff to Washington for DrupalCon DC
I'm on my way to Washington, DC to attend the annual DrupalCon. I'm really excited to see everyone again, talk some geek, have some beers and, of course, learn a lot.DrupalCon is done! I had an amazing...
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The One Year No-Blog-Post Anniversary Blog Post
David Akermanis pinged me yesterday on Twitter ("Twatted me" just sounds so wrong) stating that it has been a full year since my last blog post. And it's true it's that old, March 3rd, 2009 was the...
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DrupalCon San Francisco
On my way to the airport to hit up DrupalCon San Francisco! After hearing so much about San Francisco, I'm really looking forward to seeing the areas. If you're there, be sure to check out the...
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San Francisco!
Didn't realize just how beautiful San Francisco was until visiting. DrupalCon SF 2010 was absolutely amazing, photos on Flickr. I really loved the sessions, meeting everyone, and visiting the city....
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