Elvis Blogs - Elvis McNeely

A local friend and judge shared with me the other day about his venture in blogging - to make aware of county court budget concerns. He and a colleague are using blogspot as their blogging space, Carroll County Courts Blog. A warm welcome from one blogger to another!

Like most geeks we all had or have a Rubik's Cube. I never played with one growing up but over the years it seems my mind needs these kind of problems to solve. A few weeks back I got the cube out to show my three year old, just to see how she would respond. She loves puzzles and will definitely be a logic person.

On a recent project a client asked for the following: when visiting a taxonomy term, if that term has children, to display a new block displaying the children terms. The block would also need to have the parent term as the title. Here is how this can be done...

Template Monster that is. Template monster has decided to offer Drupal templates.

Some years back I had a module made to use Shopping.com's API, unfortunately the module never made it to Drupal.org nor has been updated for the newer versions of Drupal. I blogged about this shopping comparison drupal module several weeks back.

Over the past year some online services have popped up offereing busienss owners the ability to spy on their competitors. Spying as in knowing what organic keywords their competitors are ranking for as well as any paid advertisments and those related keywords being used.

I run LiteSpeed on my server and just love the performance it provides. During a recent Apache update the server decided not to restart on its own. After I discovered it I went in to WHM to restart Apache, forgetting that LiteSpeed doesn't restart on its own. Once done, I guess Apache changed some dir/files to "nobody" ownership. Suddenly some sites would not work.

I am working towards releasing a revenue sharing module back to the community. The module is based off a shopping comparison api, much like the Amazon module. This module will allow medium to large sites to leverage their traffic outside of advertising banners, Google Adsense etc.

Every where you read on Drupal.org, Professional Drupal Development book, IRC ect, all of us who know Drupal intimately say "Not to hack core" files. I include core module files with that statement. Here are a couple of reasons why: