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January 21, 2008 by Digett

Seize the Day

We are all well aware of Carpe Diem. We can translate the Latin phrase without pause, but understanding and applying it in context is much different. Some interpret it as an excuse to let go of all our fears and live each day to its fullest potential. People then jump out of air planes with a board strapped to their feet, or scale 1,000 foot cliff faces without safety harnesses.

July 2, 2007 by Digett

Building forms with cck, actions and workflow

We just finished building a simple form application for a client. Previously we have been big fans of webform.module, but this time we decided to go another route. After seeing some posts around drupal.org about using a combination of cck, actions and workflow to accomplish some of this same functionality, I decided to give it a shot.

June 7, 2007 by Digett

asset.module updates

So many changes have been made in the last week. The most obvious are the inclusion of a new youtube integration module and much improved views support. The youtube integration actually is a by-product of the most significant improvement, the cleaned-up and enhanced API.

May 6, 2007 by Digett

Asset.module committed to Drupal cvs

I have finally gotten around to committing my asset module. In short it is my attempt to create a more cohesive user experience for handling file assets in Drupal.

October 22, 2006 by Digett

New Maintainer of sifr.module

Today I became a maintainer of the Drupal sIFR module. This module was written by Jeff Robbins of Lullabot to implement the fantastic sIFR flash/javascript library.

August 20, 2005 by Digett

Add the Latest Version of Rails When Deploying

I'm working on transitioning our Rails deployment process (which consists of some shell scripts on the server) to SwitchTower. ST is so good, it inspires folks to write poetry. But, I have a growing stack of patches that I need applied to the latest version of Rails.

August 14, 2005 by Digett

The Flash and Javascript Marriage

There are two main things I dislike about working with Flash: messing with the complicated OBJECT tag and duplicating work. The object tag forces you to properly encode your flash variables and write them twice (once for Internet Explorer, once for other browsers). Yuck.

August 3, 2005 by Digett

rsync for Windows Users

If you're a Unix system administrator, rsync is the obvious choice for speedy remote backups. It only sends the differences of files, allowing me to quickly synchronize a directory of important files offsite.

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