Grumpy Monkey: Web Design and Development

OpenTerminal app

james — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:08:28 +0100

I've been using Open Terminal Here, which gives you a button to open the terminal at the current Finder window. Useful, but not without issues.
Just found http://homepage.mac.com/thomasw/OpenTerminal/ which, as an application rather than an AppleScript, is nice and responsive.
Gives the option of using pushd rather than cd, too.

Dynamic CSS

james — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:44:41 +0000

Just noticed this: http://drupal.org/project/dcss
Looks interesting and could be quite useful. Think I'll try it out at the earliest opportunity.

Drush make

james — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:40:04 +0000

http://drupal.org/project/drush_make
Use it. That is all.

Debugging mail in Drupal

james — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:24:36 +0000

There's a module for that...
devel has a setting at admin/settings/devel to switch Drupal mail to log emails instead of sending them out.
Set "SMTP library" to "Log only".
Puts useful debug data into $messages, too.

Using Views to provide better userreference reverse links

james — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:03:18 +0000

Recently, I built a site for a recruitment agency. Each advertised vacancy has a userreference field (userreference is bundled with the CCK module) to associate the vacancy with the relevant recruitment consultant.

Drush and localhost

james — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:07:52 +0000

I find I'm depending on Drush more and more for my Drupal development.
While my iMac is happy with Drush, as is our main dev server, I couldn't get it to work reliably on my MacBook until I found this lovely node: http://drupal.org/node/222611

Sign up for DrupalCamp UK

james — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:04:15 +0100

The UK's first DrupalCamp will take place at the BBC in Manchester, June 13th-14th.
The plan is for a wide range of talks and workshops for everyone from Drupal newbies to Drupal ninjas. Sign up for free at http://drupalcampuk.eventbrite.com/

Opera's icon

james — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:46:14 +0100

Jon Hicks writes about the new Mac-friendly interfaces for Opera 9.5 and Firefox 3. In the article he mentions how the Opera icon desperately needs an update and how he'd love to do it.

Web design trends 2008

james — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:12:45 +0100

Some fabulous designs gathered together by WebDesignerWall.

Webmonkey interviews Dries Buytaert

james — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:43:14 +0100

Brief but interesting interview with Dries Buytaert, about Drupal's history, plans for its future and Acquia's role.

Faux Absolute Positioning

james — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:28:28 +0100

Great article on A List Apart about handling complex layouts with dynamic content: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxabsolutepositioning
There don't seem to have been any exciting discoveries in CSS for a while, and I seem to have been distracted by PHP recently, so I'll enjoy messing around with this.

Looking forward to the next BarCamp

james — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:39:23 +0000

BarCamp Manchester was fantastic and I can't wait for the next one.

Quick reminder: Drupal NWUK User Group

james — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:13:23 +0000

Quick reminder: Drupal NWUK user group is meeting on Wednesday at the MDDA. Whether you know Drupal inside-out or would just like to know what it's all about, come along (if you're going to Leeds GeekUp you'll just have to be in two places at once: we'll try to avoid clashes in future).

Drupal 6 Released

james — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:47:17 +0000

It's on the shelves! http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0
Chris and I will run through the new features at the Drupal user group next week.

Drupal Training Course Details

james — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:35:03 +0000

Chris and I have sorted the time and place for our Drupal training course in Manchester: Wednesday 9th April at the MDDA.

Pop to the menusandblocks website for more info, or give one of us a call if you've got any questions!