CivicActions

Inspired by Funny Monkey and their "Wordlizing" of their Knight Drupal Initiative application I decided to have a quick play myself. I thought it would be interesting to see what words CivicActions frequently uses in our blogging, so a few days ago I took a quick export of all node text from our database, cleaned it up a little and started playing - see the attachments for the results. I think number 5 and 6 are my favorites, although I am quite partial to the arrangement in 3 too!

I am co-presenting coder at DrupalCon Szeged with my co-maintainer Stella who has been co-maintaining coder for about a year. See the session write-up

This presentation will be similar to the one given in Boston. But Since we have less time, and since we are co-presenting (meaning even less time for me), I'm pre-releasing parts of the presentation in this blog.

If you're a themer, you know you want it. You crave for it every day. It's a hunger, never relenting, pushing you closer each day towards the brink. You'd consider doing just about anything -- legal or otherwise -- to end the agony of using Internet Explorer 6.

Some time ago, Kieran approached me about the possibility of running coder on patches submitted to Drupal.org.

Because of some outstanding work by Stella, and (of course) Moshe a.k.a. drush, Kieran's wish is now a possibility. The actual patch issue is here.

Drupalcon Szeged is one week away. I am glad I am attending, and I am planning on leading a Birds of a Feather (BOF) during the conference. The focus of the BOF is creativity and programming. I want to discuss the weird mix of human behavior and code. Sounds strange I know, so let me describe in more detail.

A short, quick and easy tip for views theming and customization.

To customize the text or the destination path/url of a 'view more' link in Views. Add this to template.php in your phptemplate theme and add cases.

To rebuild the menu in Drupal 6 you have to go to admin/build/modules.

In drupal 5 the menu is cached in the cache_menu table, so it is easy to invoke a menu-rebuild by emptying the table with a simple mysql command like TRUNCATE cache_menu;. (I have a handy script that empties all tables starting with cache_).

The CivicActions team has gone a little crazy the last couple days using a new site (faceyourmanaga.com) to create avatars of themselves. We'd like to think of them as the CivicActions Action Figures, or even the CivicActions Super Hero's.

DrupalCon Szeged is fast approaching and though we are a sponsor, I'm sorry I won't be able to attend. A number of my colleagues from CivicActions will be there though including Doug, Robin, Kevin, Jozef, look for them in sessions and at the Day 1 Exhibition.

Via Noneck

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