Chris Charabaruk

Putting together a display table for your Toastmasters club: A great way to provide information and keep members updated!

Chris Charabaruk — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:45:13 -0700

Shortly after the last time I blogged about the display table at Toronto Go-Getters, it changed again, but only slightly. So I’m taking this opportunity to present for the third time our display table, and tell you how to arrange one for your Toastmasters club.

Drupal's poor design

Chris Charabaruk — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:14:17 -0700

Image via Wikipedia

While I’ll no doubt get lots of flames from Rob about this, I’m not afraid of saying that Drupal sucks as it is right now. That’s not to say it’s not getting better (for sure, it is) but a lot of problems that I and others have with Drupal stem from some poor basic design choices, which would require a stupendous amount of work to fix. Hiveminds Magazine covers a few reasons for why Drupal isn’t as good as it could be.

Drupal Publisher, now with gallery support!

Chris Charabaruk — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:33:42 -0700

Drupal Publisher for Live Photo Gallery has just been updated to provide support for image galleries, as per the update to SPU and Imgblog. It’s still pretty raw, but Drupal Publisher keeps getting more and more usable as time goes on.

Drupal Publisher for Live Photo Gallery 0.2

Chris Charabaruk — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:03:44 -0700

Image Gallery support added

New SPU, new Imgblog release

Chris Charabaruk — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:57:51 -0700

I’ve just put up both the next version of SPU, as well as a new development release of the Imgblog module for Drupal.

If your game isn't fun, you have a bug

Chris Charabaruk — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:52:22 -0700

Last night at the Toronto IGDA meeting, I got in a bit of a chat with a few other guys about playtesting to determine how fun a game is. I was bringing up a lot of usability testing examples involving Microsoft’s Usability Labs, and their methods of gauging user reaction to products. (While never having been there, I have read about how they do things, and it’s very sensible.)

Security implications for gallery support in Drupal Publisher

Chris Charabaruk — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0700

Coming up for SPU, Drupal Publisher, and the Imgblog module is support for galleries, as implemented by the Image Gallery module. This will make use of the blogid parameter in spu.newImage (it’s not just there to look pretty in the specs).

That crappy Facebook redesign is just killing... Apps, that is

Chris Charabaruk — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:29:16 -0700

Anthony Ha over at VentureBeat demonstrated the pain app developers on Facebook are facing thanks to the much maligned redesign.

Pro Photo Tools 2!

Chris Charabaruk — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:22:47 -0700

I don’t know how I missed this, but a couple weeks ago, Microsoft released the second major version of their Pro Photo Tools software, which is what I use for geotagging my pictures.

My site is way too cluttered...

Chris Charabaruk — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:44:05 -0700

There’s all sorts of things piled all over the place, and it’s getting to be a real eyesore. I’m considering yet another redesign, one that simplifies the layout and content. Any suggestions on designs I can follow that still allow me to pack in the same content (such as portfolio pieces, projects, my non-blog writings, etc.) without it being a mess like this?