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  • User Profiles as Nodes with Drupal

    Submitted by Smithmilner on Sat, 2010/06/19 - 1:48am

    I'd like to start June's blog post with a neat Drupal module suggestion, Content Profile. I've been working with it for the past few weeks and I've definitely warmed up to it. It displays nodes as part of a user's profile. You can have multiple nodes set up as part of a multi-page profile, for example. A Profile node and a User Advertisement node. User's are limited to 1 of each type, which is handy but also limited. I'd like to see options for multiple nodes of content profile type, that way a user could create 2 or 3 Advertisement nodes if that was the desired outcome. Check it out, it may be just what your project needs.

  • Smithmilner.com is now under SVN version Control

    Submitted by Smithmilner on Sun, 2010/04/04 - 1:34am

    Hey Internet,

    All the rain has driven me to have a complete veggie day at home. I have spent the past 2 weeks studying subversion and reading the Red Bean Book to wrap my head around some Subversion(SVN) features other then update commit and checkout. I started testing by using a fresh drupal installation. Then I purposefully created conflicts to understand how it all works and resolve them. It all went smoothly.

  • Van DUG - Reusable & Deployable Drupal Sites

    Submitted by Smithmilner on Tue, 2010/03/30 - 3:28pm

    Hi Internet,

    I know it's a bit late but better than never. Several Days ago I went to the Vancouver Drupal User Group March Meeting. I had a good time! My main objective of course was to network but I really learned quite a bit about how I can increase efficiency on my Drupal site deployment as well ways to reuse parts of older projects with some development tools.

    The presentation topic was Reusable & Deployable Drupal Sites with Shawn Price. It was very informative and very technical. The bread and butter was all about how to do things well once, and only once. The techniques used Drush heavily and involved the Features Module and Install profiles. To avoid breaking the DRY rule he showed us the advantage of keeping a basic drupal installation profile as well as a set of features for any occasion.

  • Front End Drupal

    Submitted by Smithmilner on Fri, 2010/03/19 - 12:46pm

    My copy of Front End Drupal - Designing, Theming, scripting by Emma Jane Hogbin and Konstantin Kafer finally arrived!

    Front End Drupal

  • Surrey DUG - Drupal Design to Theme

    Submitted by Smithmilner on Fri, 2010/03/12 - 2:05am

    I finally made my way out for the regular Surrey Drupal meetup. This month's topic presented by Katy Laan was the steps on how to take a Drupal theme from .PSD file all the way into a CSS Layout theme. A lot of designers/themers/skinners out there create the site page as a static XHTML document before incorporating it into a theme. This is a step I usually skip but I'd like to see if I can optimize my template code by writing it static first.

  • Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!

    Submitted by Smithmilner on Fri, 2009/12/25 - 11:54pm

    Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all music lovers all over the world! I hope you all got the pressie you wanted and had a long overdue family dinner!

  • Artistic Impulses

    Submitted by Smithmilner on Thu, 2009/08/06 - 11:58am

    The current and past term at BCIT have left me in a dried up lake bed, creatively. I hadn't made anything nice to look at in quite some time. Yesterday, I came in to the New Media Centre a few hours early and explored http://www.smashingmagazine.com for fun and inspiration. I made a nice background image for the girlfriend and a bunch of throw-aways for fun. It's always fun to let your photoshop brush run wild for a bit!

  • Heated PHP

    Submitted by Smithmilner on Tue, 2009/07/28 - 2:08pm

    Hey guys,

    Welcome to the blog! I'm going to be blogging this semester on my web learnings, life and cool tools you guys should check out. First mention is my rant. This heat is killing me, I have slept over the covers all week and it makes me very uncomfortable!

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