Elvis Blogs - Elvis McNeely

I thought I would share with the rest of the community this great little time saver. FireQuery, needs Firebug, allows you to query the DOM and see what changes take place - without saving a file or refreshing the page. Just like testing  CSS changes in Firebug.

I am not a whiz with jQuery, though the logic is simple, the syntax is still new . Trail and error can be a slow method to learn a new language / technology but, Firequery got me to the point of failing quicker - to learn more quickly. If that makes sense... Before I knew it I was writing my own jQuery plugins.

A big thanks to binaryage for this very needed tool! I am know jQuery newbies find it useful and am sure jQuery pros do too!

I am just reaching out to the Drupal community to let those who knew me by mcneelycorp, that I am now elvis2. I wish there were a more formal way of announcing this, like through sticky signatures. Why the name change?

My 4 year old knows I work with Drupal. Sometimes she will rush to the keyboard and klak her fingers on the keys looking for attention. When I ask her what she is doing she repsonds "making a website - like you daddy".

This day (of the video) I let her get one step closer to becoming the next drupaler in this house...

UPDATE: I had a sever issue and had to rebuild the site. Currently the video is unavailable.

Just wanted to plug for Virtualmin and Drupal...

I have been using Virtualmin for about 6 months now, so far so good. Though cPanel is widely used and looked at as a standard, the Virtualmin control panel doesn't mess up your OS (I use Centos 5). cPanel does many overrides and changes to the Centos OS, and some say cPanel creates a security risk to Centos.

During the last few days I have been working on a module that automates updating product information from distributors.

About two weeks ago I shared a site recipe (Drupal + webform + SugarCRM) to get Drupal talking to SugarCRM. In my previous Sugar post I mentioned I would make a patch for sugarwebform module, since it was a bit out dated (Sugar changed it's code a bit causing sugarwebform to break).

This project was set aside last June, as I was working on it in my spare time. Shopping.com (aka SDC) is now pushing all it's partners to switch to the Version 3 platform within the next 6 months. Yikes! I figured I need to give this module more priority. Here is the progress so far, for Drupal 6. What is functional...

A client recently asked for SugarCRM integration with Drupal. I just wanted to report on my findings. There are two SugarCRM + Drupal solutions...

Our city now has a Drupal group / meetup!

Problem: A client requested to show an error message on the /cart and cart/checkout page when the order shipping weight is greater than 500lbs. They are shipping grass seed and need the purchaser to complete the order over the phone.

As you get your hands dirty with Ubercart you will find little things you don't like. Some of the little things are important and others are not. If you stick with Ubercart long enough you will learn that with time, skill, and determination you can modify your Ubercart install as your wish - most of the time.

Thanks to Dmitri (and Bevan) who has contributed a new module (Vertical Tabs - Drupal 6 only currently) that minimizes vertical scrolling on node forms.

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.

The script is written in Perl, I know this is not the "Drupal" way, but it is darn easy to use. Normally you would need to build these files by hand or piece one together. There is also a "module" to build a module skeleton for you - module builder. I prefer the Modulator simply because it is faster.

The script also works a bit with SimpleTest (see below) too, a nice feature.

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.

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