Elvis Blogs - Elvis McNeely

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.

Our family traveled 4 hours south Saturday morning to visit me mum. Although hectic, like most trips home are, this trip went well. Stela, my three year old, did really well in the car and was not intimidated to speak only English with her grandma and grandpa.

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.

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!

I am glad to hear the leader of Al-Qaida has been captured. For some months now I have doubted this war will do any good. But, no matter how you look at it, we are combating evil. I know many people don’t agree with that.

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.