I’m still recovering from an amazing week at SXSW
(more on that later), but I’m totally stoked that my proposed session on Drupal Installation Profiles made it on the Open Source CMS Summit schedule. I wish I’d known a little earlier, but I’m jumping in head first over the next week to learn the ins-and-outs.
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I started reading the Detroit “alternative weekly” the MetroTimes when I, like many of my friends, discovered it was the best source of live music listings in the region. But, unlike most of my friends, I soon began to pick it up more for the articles than the show listings (”I read it for […]
I’m not quite the master of Javascript that I’d like to be. I have a basic grasp of the language and have used the jQuery library lightly for viralvideos.com; I chose it mostly because it is compact and I’d played with it since it is included with Drupal 5.
Recently, I was pointed […]
Phew. I’d been sitting on email from September. I finally got back through my personal mail inbox, replied to outstanding messages, moved some tasks over into my current GTD tool and cleared the rest. If you have been expecting to hear from me but haven’t, now would be a good time to […]
Google recently released a couple of tools that make it easy to mount folders over the network with SFTP. They did this by implementing FUSE, which stands for “Filesystem in Userspace.” FUSE supports “plug-ins” that turn various kinds of network connectivity into “mountable” drives. Google went one step further and wrapped a […]
I have a huge backlog of half-done posts. I just can’t seem to get here frequently enough. Maybe I should cut out my Daily Show/Colbert Report habit for a month — see if that helps… Anyway.
Over at work, I’ve been tinkering with a little side project with Yaron amidst the gazillion other things […]
Video projectors are all the rage in ‘new media’ art these days. For example, this project featured over at we make money not art shows a piece where a projector distorts a projected image in order to cover a 3-D surface:
This is kinda cool. It requires you to create a 3-D ‘map’ of […]
Lizz is firing up the oven for the first time in our new place to do some baking. Some time during the move the labels on many of our kitchen canisters went missing. We’d identified everything but weren’t sure which of the two identical, black canisters held baking soda and which held baking […]
I should probably be updating you all on the crazy long weekend I had. I saw many Michigan friends, drank a lot, started a company, cooked a new dish. But that must wait. Today I discovered yet another approach to automatically initiating a software download. This time, from Google Earth. […]
Following up on my three windy posts about tracking download statistics and javascript, I’ve noticed two other, simpler approaches in common use. Apple uses an invisible iFrame for the iTunes download, like so:
<iframe width=0% height=0% scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ src=’http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iTunes7/
Win/061-2794.20061031.iTZW2/iTunesSetup.exe’></iframe>
No javascript required, apparently. I’ve also seen various other sites use a much simpler javascript approach […]
