GeoIP

Posted Wed, 03/31/2010 - 23:13 by Chris

Lately, I have had a lot of conversations about GeoIP.  And, I have had a lot of fun with requirement documents that make it impossible to test configurations.  I should be clear...I didn't want to have these conversations, however, others did and I had to partake or be consider ostensibly rude.  But, I digress...XKCD.com comes through again with a commentary that seems to come straight from my internal filter.

 

Christmas GPS

Posted Tue, 03/30/2010 - 22:22 by Chris

Several years ago, Amy and I were trying to figure out what to get each other for Christmas.  After watching a Tennessee Wildsides episode on Geocaching, we independently got the idea that GPSr's would be a great idea.  So on Christmas day, we opened up our gifts to each other and saw that we got our own Garmin eTrex Ventures.  Although we didn't play the game referenced in the comic, we have enjoyed countless stories and experiences in our geocaching finds.

Nivo Slider Module

Posted Tue, 03/30/2010 - 14:02 by Chris

One of the great things about the Drupal Views Module is all the additional styles and plugins that can be used for displaying the view.  This could be GMap (for displaying maps with locations on it), carousel, rotate, or slideshow to name a few of my favorites.  Today, commits started to be applied on the Nivo Slider jQuery image slider.  This new kid on the block of jQuery image sliders looks like it has a huge upside potential.  And, judging by th

Checkfront for Drupal

Posted Mon, 03/29/2010 - 11:47 by Chris

From time to time, I have heard folks wonder aloud how they might integrate a reservation system into Drupal.  Would they have to develop their own module or was there something available already.  Today I was notified of the Checkfront Module for Drupal.  The notification came out before the commit release, but hopefully the release will roll in the next 24 hours or so.  This module interfaces with Checkfront a Software as a Service (SaaS) reservation system.&nbsp

PPI Graphics Goes Live!

Posted Wed, 03/24/2010 - 16:48 by Chris

PPI Graphics, a commercial printer in Canton, Ohio, launched their brand new website last week.  An award winning company, this site provides a web presence that they were lacking.  This has special consideration since it is the family business.  As long as I can remember, my father has been in printing.  And, actually, my first contract job was when I was a teenager there.  First, I mowed some nearby lots that were next to the property, and then I wrote batch programs that loaded HP fonts into the typesetting c

Setting Up a MultiSite Drupal Installation Using cPanel

Posted Sun, 03/22/2009 - 20:49 by Chris

Recently, I had a need to set up a multisite installation on a shared hosting environment (Hostmonster).  My only access to the server currently, until I jump through the appropriate hoops to get SSH access, is FTP and cPanel.  Try as I might, I had difficulties with the installation until I found this article here.  Unfortunately, there are just a few missing steps, so with credit to the original author, kham08 over at Drupal Groups, I am going to give a fuller explanation.  Finally, play careful attention

Drupal Updates Not Updating

Posted Thu, 03/19/2009 - 22:03 by Chris

I recently logged into my website and got the "a security update is available for your site" message. In this case, I needed to upgrade from 6.9 to 6.10.

I have a couple of upgrades under my belt, so I downloaded the tarball and started the process of upgrading Drupal. Everything ran without an error and after finishing up the update, I was kicked out to my administration page. But, the page said "a security update is available for your site." Huh, what? I just updated?!?

Growing Up Opie

Posted Sat, 02/21/2009 - 18:41 by Chris

When I was a kid, my dad used to love "The Andy Griffith Show". Under two criteria. It was a black and white episode and that Barney Fife (Don Knotts) was in it. Because of the way the show was syndicated, on a bad night you could get a single helping of Andy, Barney, Goober, and all the rest. But, on a good night there was three episodes on. The show became a staple of my growing up. My father, my uncles, and I all were fans of the show to the point that you were shamed if you couldn't give a 2 minute synopsis of the show after watching the first 10 seconds of the show.

Cookies Are Your Friend In Ubercart (Cannot Add Item to Shopping Cart)

Posted Mon, 01/05/2009 - 16:06 by Chris

After tracking down a "bug" in Ubercart, I thought I would share it with the community. I had a support email for someone not being able to add an item into a shopping cart that is powered by Ubercart. User was running IE7. For the life of me I could not get Ubercart not to dutifully add the item that was requested to be added to the cart. I started turning off functionality it IE (javascript, etc). I then stumbled upon cookies. Apparently, the user didn't have cookies enabled or a security setting barred cookie use.

Images Not Uploading in Ubercart? What's the File Named?

Posted Thu, 12/18/2008 - 21:14 by Chris

Wow, so a funny think happened to me on the way to work today...  Ok, not so much on the way to work as while at work.  Ubercart, which was working so well, decided out of nowhere not to upload images associated with products.