First of all Drupal administration UI is different, not all bad, but definitely different. It has a clean look & feel to it but there is not a logical placement of where to edit things, etc… Compared to Joomla UI is doesn’t stack up, but on the good side it actually works much better then Joomla or DotNetNuke (whose admin UI also takes a while to get used to). Maybe it’ll grow on me or at least I’ll understand their logic.
I was racking my brain trying to figure out how to enable the forums in the navigation section. I could clearly see where it was disabled but couldn’t for the life of me figure out where to enable it.
Here is the UI of it:
Clearly it’s disabled, right? Turns out although the checkbox looks disabled, in reality to turn it on you are suppose to select it anyway’s. Come on guys, things that look disabled are suppose to act disabled.
Written by Tim on May 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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GraphicLeftOvers.com - Interesting idea for design work that never sold.
Free Mind Mapping Application
Searching for data in a large SQL database - This will come in handy.
Blackberry 9000 first look - I’m not that impressed, I expected a little more with the iPhone pushing the mobile boundaries.
Written by Tim on May 9th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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So we finally bought a next gen gaming console. We ended up going with the wii over xbox 360, and lastly Playstation 3. We already have an xbox with at least 30 games that my 5 year plays with a passion. Seriously, this kid will kick your butt in most games. I use to be a Madden champion but he beats the old man on a regular schedule these days. He has really gotten into First Person Shooter games and the wife and I thought it would be a good idea to steer him away from the shooter games at this stage. Don’t get me wrong, I’m definitely one of those Americans who clutch to my guns and religion in tough times and I’m not much for sheltering or parental control over real world violence but getting the kid back to the fun games is a good idea.
The bottom line is the wii is awesome. It’s complete family fun, my wife loves tennis and bowling, its the first time she has ever got excited over a video game. The soon to be coming wii fit looks right up her alley too. Nick (5 year old) has been playing baseball & golf non stop. I think it really helps his hand eye coordination too. We got Guitar Hero too and it’s a complete hit for everyone, including the 2 year old who is training for Dancing with Stars apparently. If you are looking for some good family fun or a great party entertainer, the wii is it.
The bad news. No matter how many times you tell a kid something, sometimes they have to learn the hard way. This morning while playing wii boxing, Nick let the remote slip and a crack, busted, non repairable LCD HDTV is what we have now. Of course he didn’t have the wrist strapped on. We told him x amount of times last night, “You have to wear the strap.” I have to take some of the blame though, I didn’t set the best example, several times not strapping in. Lesson learned for the both us, the hard way of course.
Written by Tim on May 7th, 2008 with 10 comments.
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Free tds comes to Mac OS X incase you need to connect to a ms sql server from the Mac.
Fixing flickering UI on TabContainer Asp.NET Ajax
MojoPortal - .NET open source CMS that runs on Windows or Mono - via WebDevRadio
SilverStripe - PHP MVC open source CMS - via WebDevRadio
Google’s Eric Schmidt Interview - So youtube isn’t making money yet, new products coming out this year and web 3.0 is probably going to be mobile apps.
Yahoo Messenger beta for Vista - WPF goodness at work
Written by Tim on May 1st, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Enterprise iPhone (a week with 2.0 beta)
Wordpress 2.5.1 released - 2.5 has security issue.
Hacking jQuery ThickBox - A couple of nice add functions for Thickbox
jQuery Combo Selector
GridFox - Grid Layout Firefox Extension
OpenEXT - There is a ton of feedback, mostly bad, about extjs changing their license status to GPL. This guy isn’t happy.
Written by Tim on April 29th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Twitter edition. I’m going to give this twitter a try - catch me at tjb. So far it’s ok. I’m looking for a nice Blackberry Twitter App, not entirely sold on Twitterberry or using GTalk.
Twitterberry - It’s ok, but I’m not entirely sure how to reply to someone or auto notice of friends tweets.
Digsby - IM, Social, Twitter all in one application.
twitterrific - Mac Only twitter application
twirl - Cross platform twitter application written on Adobe Air platform
http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps - Main resource for twitter applications
http://m.slandr.net/index.php - Mobile site for twitter.
Twitter API talk
5 iPhone Twitter Hacks
Written by Tim on April 24th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Comparing Popular Javascript / AJAX frameworks - And the winner is…jQuery of course
Microsoft unveils Live Mesh - Substitute Mesh with Mash and that’s what you have, a mash of existing Microsoft technologies in a windows pane. Oh and you can write in your own plugin. Facebook as an application anyone?
Central Ohio Day of .NET 2008 Recap
Online JSON Editor
eBay suing Craigslist - You know it’s bad when your own investor is suing you.
Behold Wordpress, Destroyer of CPUs
Written by Tim on April 23rd, 2008 with 1 comment.
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