October 2010

Vilepickle's Weekly Link Digest 10/29/2010

Submitted by David Lohmeyer on October 29, 2010 - 9:46am

This week's links are pretty solid.  Happy birthday Internet!

Vilepickle's Weekly Link Digest 10/22/2010

Submitted by David Lohmeyer on October 22, 2010 - 10:12am

This is something I'd like to do every week.  I see a lot of cool articles online and want to share them.  Some are nerdy, some are useful, and some are just cool.

Linking blog updates, Twitter, and Facebook together

Submitted by David Lohmeyer on October 19, 2010 - 3:05pm

The web is becoming more socially bloated (sorry, more socially rich) every day.  One thing that's handy is only needing to post your updates in one location rather than 3-5.  How is this accomplished?  You'll need a few tools to begin with.

Using PuTTY to manage your SSH logins in Windows

Submitted by David Lohmeyer on October 13, 2010 - 1:25pm

This may be something you already do if you're a web developer or have anything to do with Unix but I figured it'd be a decent reference for someone just starting out.  PuTTY is your SSH client for Windows which stores login information to remote servers.  It makes it so you don't have to do things via a regular command prompt manually every time you need shell access.

What you need

JQuery Dropdown Menu Styling in Drupal

Submitted by David Lohmeyer on October 8, 2010 - 10:14am

DrupalSN posted a nice guide to styling exposed View dropdown menus with a JQuery plugin and some stylish CSS.  The guide there worked perfectly except for the step where he hid the submit button.  I changed this:

.views-exposed-form label,
.jquery_dropdown_page .views-exposed-form .form-submit {
  display: none;
}

to this:

A List Apart's survey about people who make websites

Submitted by David Lohmeyer on October 5, 2010 - 10:40am

A List Apart's survey results about people who make websites for 2009 has just been released and it contains a wealth of fascinating statistics about the web development / design field.  Over 20,000 people participated in the survey and it has things like education, gender, salaries, age, seniority, and many more metrics.

Proprietary Software vs. Open Source: the CRM

Submitted by David Lohmeyer on October 1, 2010 - 2:01pm

This is obviously an amazingly large topic, but having recently been forced to increase usability of a business process with a monolithic Constituent Resource Management program (Raiser's Edge) I feel like I need to voice my opinion.  I have been a great fan of Drupal for the past year and my appreciation of the open source nature and ever-changing state of the software is great.  Processes greatly improve over time, the community talks about problems and fixes, and there seems to be a flexible solution for (almost) everything.