Javascript, Drupal, PHP
On May 9-10, Vancouver will see its second ever Drupal conference, Vancouver Drupal Camp 2008. The event will feature multiple tracks and will take place at two downtown locations.
If you're interested in helping organize or sponsor, let the organizers know how you'd like to contribute on the wiki page!
If you're a command line junkie, Gnu Screen command is a handy, handy application. It simulates multiple terminals from within one terminal using a relatively easy to learn array of keyboard shortcuts. For example, you can keep top running in one virtual terminal, vi in another, and a bash prompt in another. If you're an OS X user think of it as Quicksilver for the command line.
After half a year of organizing by the Vancouver PHP Association, the Open Web Vancouver conference is open for registration. This year, unlike years past, we've opened up the conference to non-PHP technologies, such ss Ruby and Python, which should make for a new dynamic.
After working with the Georgia Straight for a little over a year, it's satisfying to finally see our web team's vision unleashed. We've launched a redesign that combines a new look with a new navigation scheme. In the previous version, content over a week old was only accessible through the "back issues" interface. In the new version access to content is more blog-like. Content flows in reverse chronological order for each topic and can be subscribed to via RSS.
At the Georgia Straight, we've implemented our first contest based on user generated content and user content rating. In partnership with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, we're offering a $1000 makeover to the highest rated contestants who submit their photos. By rating the submitted photos, our users get to decide who should get a makeover.
When testing different user roles in Drupal, there is a handy trick that leverages Gmail's ability to pass information in via your email address. For example, if your Gmail email address is "fakeemail@gmail.com" you can pass additional information by adding a plus sign before the "@" and the additional information after the plus sign. For example, "fakeemail+extrainfo@gmail.com". When creating test users with different roles, the role can be specified in the email address using this technique.
The good folks at the Vancouver Drupal Users Group allowed me to make a presentation about my open-source contest and survey module for Drupal, Multiforms.
Oct. 2007 Presentation for Vancouver Drupal Users Group (PDF) viewable online here
I got an article published in Georgia Straight Living magazine! Yay! The article is about high definition television... not necessarily something close to my heart, but it was fun to research.
