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  • My New Computer

    Submitted by Smithmilner on November 14, 2010 - 7:46pm

    Got back from Future Shop today with bag in hand and a new computer! The good ole 17-Inch MacBook Pro has certainly been a good companion all these years but it's time to move forward. The new model is the Macbook Air 13-Inch. it's nearly 2D and has more disk space than my 17-Inch beast did anyway.

    On other fronts, I had some fun this weekend hanging with some of the Affinity Bridge crew for ArianeK's bday! The events consisted of brunch and music. It gave me a good chance to see everybody outside of the work environment.

    I plan to blog in the near future on how taking up the reigns of GIT has been. My crash course on drupal features, new (to me at least) site deployment with install profiles and drush make files.

  • User Profiles as Nodes with Drupal

    Submitted by Smithmilner on June 19, 2010 - 12:48am

    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 April 4, 2010 - 12:34am

    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 March 30, 2010 - 2:28pm

    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 March 19, 2010 - 11:46am

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

    Front End Drupal

    I'm just starting chapter 3 and so far it's really well written. It's very easy to follow and I can't wait to get into the meat of the book. I've just been through the "preparing yourself for Drupal" chapters for any work experience tips and I'm happy to report I have not missed anything important in my developments. I'll let you know what I learned and thought was important. I'm hoping learn some page template secrets as well as theme function magic.

  • Surrey DUG - Drupal Design to Theme

    Submitted by Smithmilner on March 12, 2010 - 1:05am

    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. A useful tool discussed is the starter theme in particular the Basic project. Smithmilner.com was actually created from the Basic theme. I'm looking forward to putting some of these tricks I learned into practise. Perhaps a smithmilner.com redesign is in order.

     

  • Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!

    Submitted by Smithmilner on December 25, 2009 - 10:54pm

    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 August 6, 2009 - 10:58am

    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!

    I'm starting to get a feel for the classes Term 4 has to offer. They are more about business then any class previously, which scares me! I haven't been to PHP class in ages because of the holiday (BC day). I find myself excited in anticipation of Saturday's PHP class.

    Maybe if i like any of my recent works i'll link em up here.

    Final note:

    Go check out http://www.smashingmagazine.com you can spend hours exploring.

  • Heated PHP

    Submitted by Smithmilner on July 28, 2009 - 1:08pm

    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!

    After being away from school for 2 weeks, I have found myself the tiniest bit behind in my learnings. I spent a few hours last night reading through extra chapters of my PHP text book because it's so darn interesting. Currently we have been tasked with creating a database with a table full of clients, arranged in rows. I can add clients, update clients and view clients but i cannot figure out how to delete rows from my table. Over the next week i'll upload my documents so people can actually see what i'm doing and perhaps comment.

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