Elvis Blogs - Elvis McNeely

Summary: This is a really simple snippet that allows you to have more controll over of a page's styling needs.

Tomorrow is the start of the “Quicker Drupal adoption: The 10 minute challenge”. The original post brought a good amount of feedback, which I am summarizing and will post a follow-up in the coming days. I hope some of the comments/ideas get implemented.

Recently I stumbled upon the "modulator", a script that builds a .module, .install, and .info files for you on the fly, naming the files along with the functions as well.

Words - Can't explain the love a child gives a parent. I always knew I wanted to be a dad growing up but I never knew the buckets of new emotions it would conjure up. Once child(ren) arrive in your world you soon find out this life isn't so much about you, as it is about them. The moment we realize that, our life changes.

Shopping.com API Update: On May 14th, 2008 Shopping.com released the new version (version 3) of their API, the Shopping.com API, commonly called the SDC API. If you were a Shopping.com API version 2 user you will be very happy to see such changes as...

Challenge: Spend 10 minutes 3 times a week for 4 weeks answering questions in Drupal.org forums. When? Starting July 1 (2008). What's that? "I don't know enough yet" OR "I'm too busy developing core". Don't make up your mind just yet. Read on…

Over the last couple of weeks I have been planning how to introduce, educate, and train Drupal to the Purdue University campus. Although nothing is in place permanently, the introduce and educate parts will be done primarily through presentations on campus.

Task: Recently a client asked for a simple yet flexible and scalable solution to modify the user profile output for a particular role (client is using the profile module). The client also wants to grant this role full html privileges with certain profile fields.

I was happy to see Ubercart, eCommerce for Drupal, show off a shiny new design. Ubercart's previous design was fine but the new design does add a flare of "professional" grade.

Task: 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.