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Posts from November 2008

want more drupal?

If your answer is “yes”, you’re going to want to attend the drupal4lib camp in February! It’s conveniently scheduled the day after Code4Lib ends, and is generously being hosted by Darien Library which, I hear, is a quick train-ride away from Providence. Props to Karen Coombs for taking an idea we came up with in [...]


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10 November 2008 @ 9pm

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from the “celebrating our failures” dept

This is from a design/marketing/communications company’s website. I love how they’re not afraid to showcase ideas that didn’t fly:
Think of this as the final resting place for ideas that - for one reason or another - lacked sufficient postage. The road to change is littered with them.
You can’t have innovation without failure, right? I’d love [...]


on drupal, part two

If I had to pick the single most useful module out of that whole list, it would be an easy choice: CCK. It’s a super-powerful module that allows you to define content types across your site and create custom fields for those content types.
So, say you want to create subject guides on your drupal-powered site. [...]


on drupal, part one

If you want the basics on Drupal, you could do no better than to spend some time combing through the project’s website. Actually, scratch that, the one thing you could do better than combing through the website would be to grab the software, install it, and mess around with it for a bit. It’s easy [...]


one-person(ship), revisited

As I mentioned previously, I gave a presentation at Internet Librarian about one-person project management. Most of what I spoke about (OK, all of it) was borne out of my experience with the web redesign project I worked on over the past 8 months, but really, I got the idea to talk about it when [...]