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Drupal: Single Person Blogs

Submitted by taylor on April 16, 2009 - 12:15am

I made the switch to Drupal without knowing much about the Drupal core blogging module and as it turns out, Drupal's core blog implementation is excellent, but was intended for multiple bloggers. This way a user could view the site blog page and see recent posts from any member, but could still view just the posts from a specific user (e.g. Taylor's Blog). This was good and all, but it bothered me to hack my URLs to fit my single blog site.

New Theme!

Submitted by taylor on April 15, 2009 - 9:17pm

I've finished my new theme! Me not being a designer at all means this task will no longer ominously lurk in my future! Hooray!

Mosso.com - The Rackspace Cloud

Submitted by taylor on April 15, 2009 - 4:00pm

This site is now being hosted by Mosso.com and I'm loving it. I basically got a virtual dedicated server that is easily scalable for $11/mo! This means I can have an FTP server, an SVN server, and a web server with unlimited domains all for just $11/mo!

Fun with SQL Injections

Submitted by taylor on April 15, 2009 - 1:41pm

Nothing makes me more frustrated than working to maintain a nicely formatted resume and have my potential employers ask me, "hey, can you just gimme a plain text version of that pdf?" Well, they never actually ask me that, but their web application does by showing me a "resume" field for me to submit my resume in this small, plain text box. Usually a couple thoughts go through my head at this point. Does the company who I am interviewing to develop web applications for have a web application that can handle the submission of files? If not, do I wish to work for this employer?

Joomla + VirtueMart Menu Problem

Submitted by taylor on April 15, 2009 - 12:50pm

The web designer for Utopian Coffee Co, recently contacted me with a problem he was having with the VirtueMart menus in their Joomla site. He was redesigning the site to have four main sections denoted by the items on the main menu. Each section has a submenu that provides navigation for within the section. While the user remains in the section, the respective main menu item remains highlighted. This worked fine for the Joomla submenus provided by com_mainmenu, but the VirtueMart menus broke this feature.