In the eyes of Robin Monks » Drupal

Podhurl Inc. Needs Vector Artist for Project

Robin Monks — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:17:23 PDT

Image via Wikipedia If you are a vector artist looking for a small project, Podhurl Inc may have something right up your alley: Podhurl Inc. is seeking a talented vector artist to design game elements in the style of several popular card games. The artist would need to create a unified, modern style and produce vector resources [...]

Version 1.6 of Add Another Module for Drupal Released

Robin Monks — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:01:28 PDT

Add another module has been recently updated with another new time-saving feature; you can now display “Add another” tabs on certain node types. I’m also taking the time to think of what else can be done to make the usual node creation workflow easier for end users. I’ll be looking for suggestions on how to improve the [...]

Microsoft’s Browser Selection + User Ignorance Lets Google’s Chrome “cheat”?

Robin Monks — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:11:41 PST

Michael B. from the Mozilla Marketing list recently posted an hypothesis on why Google Chrome may suddenly start taking a much larger chunk out of the browser market now that Microsoft's browser selection screens are appearing in the EU. "I've a hypothesis to explain Chrome's recent and sudden surge of usage share the last couple months. Let me first say that almost every time I ever ask what web browser someone uses, the answer I get is Google...."

Europeans Get a Taste of the Browser Choice Screen

Robin Monks — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:59:31 PST

We might finally get more people off of IE, FINALLY. It might seem like a minor thing, but it isn’t. Microsoft has been fined billions over browser choice (or lack thereof) in Windows, and the solution that finally satisfied EU regulators was a browser choice screen, which would let users choose a web browser rather [...]

Web 2.0 MacGyver

Robin Monks — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:35:38 PST

Image via Wikipedia TV shows like MacGyver and Junk Yard Wars, as well as real world survival and minimalist training [even camping] tell us that it’s cool to take bits of whatever is lying around, and jury-rig it into something useful, and potentially vital to our survival. Today as I was thinking about the plethora [...]

WordPress Upgrade: I could cry

Robin Monks — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:54:54 PST

[This whole post is written tounge-in-cheek. Please don't flame/bash/perl or python the author.] I just did an upgrade from WordPress 2.7 to 2.7.1, and it was completely done in under 5 seconds. Didn’t need to connect to SSH, didn’t need to connect to FTP. I click two buttons and my blog was running the latest [...]

Admin Role: Another Drupal Module That Just Makes Sense!

Robin Monks — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:25:56 PST

If you’ve been using Drupal for any amount of time you’ve probably ran into the problem of needing to go to the access page each time you enable a module to ensure the admin users have permission to make full use of it. This is a module that I was planning to write, but then [...]

Reviving CivicSpace Theme: Making a useful Drupal theme for grassroots communities

Robin Monks — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:51:21 PST

Back in the day, the CivicSpace theme was designed by Chris Messina (factoryjoe on twitter, amazingly tallented guy) for CivicSpace. The theme was designed to make it incredibly easy for grass roots organizations and campaigns to develop a site that had the style and features they would need for their campaign or community to suceed. [...]

Add Another: A New Drupal Module That Just Makes Sense

Robin Monks — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:44:17 PST

In my wishlist last month, one of the items I had on my list that didn’t already have a solution, was the ability to have a message when a user created a node that would present them with a quick way to add another node of the same type. Today, I’m happy to say [...]

[via lifehacker] New Year’s Deal: Get 24 Months of Hosting + Domain for $11

Robin Monks — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:10:44 PST

Image via Wikipedia If anyone missed that deal, here is another for $97 off any yearly plan, and $51 off a monthly plan (no known expiration date). The coupon code is rm0 (are-emm-zero), and, since all the dicounts are set to the maximum possible, I don’t get any kickbacks from anyone using this (just like [...]