November 2007
3 posts
NIGHTMARE drupal primary links menu active...
Avoid duplicating paths in your Drupal Menu system — the menu administration does NOT prevent you from having menus with similar paths, and actually, will chug along quite happily with duplicated path names — that is, until you try to troubleshoot while menu highlighting isn’t working for one particular node type.
Even worse, it’ll highlight unevenly —...
firebug: awesome tool, high price.
in memory, that is. If you’re using firebug and simply flipped it on for everything (mostly so you could ‘tut-tut’ at the endless js errors of other sites), you are probably restarting firefox at least 5 times a day.
really, it’s worth just whitelisting the sites you’re actively working on. I find firebug indispensable (particularly the DOM Inspector functionality...
October 2007
6 posts
embarassing confession: My knowledge of...
Fortunately, I’ve fixed it somewhat by reading through this:
Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps
here’s the gist: absolute and relative positioning are pretty worthless on their own, but when you combine them with parent-child element relationships, THEY ARE UNSTOPPABLE pretty cool.
tangential remark: i also have a great question to ask interviewing designers now too:...
DSLEXTREME, DDWRT, bridged modems, and doing...
So SBC decided to switch me back to a $29.99 plan for DSL after a year of service was completed with them. I’ve hated SBC ever since I started with them, seeing how it took me TWO WEEKS of calling their tech support EVERY DAY before they were able to get my line up (they kept sending their line technicians out when I was home, without notifying me — I’d have to spend two days...
CROPPING: imagemagick and drupal crop
the image.imagemagick.inc file that comes with the Image module appears to have (what I think) is a minor bug — the crop command does not use the viewport setting (!). This means that cropped gifs and other files which do not discard canvas info post-crop will retain their original size (although image information OUTSIDE of the crop will appear blank) rather than having their overall size...
NOTES: mysql cli to postgres psql cli
show databases -> select datname from pg_database;
use DATABASE -> \c DATABASE OR \connect DATABASE
show tables -> \dt OR \display tables