As a website developer I have decided to work almost exclusively with the Drupal CMS. I will continually update this blog with information regarding my experience with Drupal, recipes and code snippets that are helpful along the way.
In my experience with Drupal I have found it sometimes difficult to interpret the help/notes/instructions given by other developers - hopefully the documentation here will be easier to understand than most.
I recently had an issue with flash widgets, particularly the dynamic rendering module, being disabled when the lightbox launched/opened. I originally thought that this was an attribute of javascript and flash incompatibility or a layering issue (which is usually the case).
Upon clicking a thumbnail, the lightbox transition would begin and immediately the flash would disappear or be hidden.
Did I mention that I love Surpass Hosting? It's the reassurance that I've got "people" on the inside who can respond to my issues and fix them right away that really gets me excited. Granted - there have been times when issues haven't been resolved the way that I would have preferred, but overall Surpass is solid.
Before I forget to post about it, I wanted to write about importing and exporting data using drupal, the Feed API, Views Data Source and the RDF Project (which I still need to investigate).
I've been managing a pretty hefty CRM (http://www.civicrm.com) for a client which has always run pretty slow, but as the client has started using it more, the slow down became a huge issue.
Celebrating the one year anniversary of the Fort Collins Internet Professionals Meetup, we changed up the format and had members of the group present several 5 minute presentations. The format, inspired by (or taken directly from) O'Reilly ignite format, requires each presenter to create a 20 slide presentation - each slide advancing automatically every 15 seconds.
I have intermittently experienced an issue with several of my drupal sites in which after logging out of the site the content still appears as if I were logged in. Pages would still appear editable, blocks that should only be seen by authenticated users could still be seen. A fix (that is in the works) can be found here: http://drupal.org/node/197786#comment-1218604
It's always a bit frusterating when you can't figure out what the problem is - as drupal continues to improve there are more and more tools that can tell you how to target an issue or determine where the issue was originated (like the theme developer module see: http://www.drupal.org/project/devel ). There is also the amazing FireBug addon for firefox which I could never live without.
