Dec 21, 2009

CodeBreaker is a MasterMind(tm) clone. I decided to program this on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I was tired of the lack of configuration of the gnome-mastermind client (which I love, nevertheless), and my knowledge of GTK is limited to less than nothing, so I programmed this one to allow the user to configure the number of holes, the number of colors, how many turns the user has, and if you want to repeat colors in the code or not.

As it stands, it has no real colors. It's all...

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Nov 4, 2009
Apart from the Ann Arbor Drupal User Group, in which we meet every month to discuss all things Drupal, we've been wanting actual Drupal training for a while. Whether it is a class, a seminar, DrupalCamp, or the official DrupalCon, there's always something new to learn. Weeks ago I learned of a Drupal workshop in town organized by one of our very own A2DUG members, Jim. I could not attend the...>> Read more
Sep 21, 2009

I was checking my Drupal issue queue and saw an update to an issue on which I gave a possible solution around 3 months ago. It was marked as fixed by the the maintainer, KarenS, known to pretty much everyone in the active Drupal community for her Date and...

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Feb 12, 2009
Good fortune is on my side. This was more evident when I found out that the DrupalCon guys were starting a wait-list, starting in order from those that posted a request for a ticket.. The fortunate part was that I was one of the very first in the forum. Phew! Still, I didn't get my ticket thanks to that wait-list, but because someone that couldn't make it to the conference did the same. I will assume that he went, one by one, FIFO-style, through the list of those who posted in the forum, until...>> Read more
Jan 28, 2009

This morning my manager said: "Victor, I've got good news for you! The company will pay for your conference, plane ticket, hotel, the works!". Yay! I was suddenly the happiest person alive. I quickly went to my computer and loaded up the DrupalCon website. I felt the blood in the upper part of my body go to my legs when I saw the evil sign that said "Sold Out!".

Fail.

I looked for a phone number to call...

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Dec 19, 2008

A few weeks ago I read about ArbCamp 2008 in the a2geeks.org website. I promptly signed up to attend. Free pizza and geek talk is too good an opportunity to pass.

The sign-up list filled up pretty quickly, so they opened up a waiting list. When they saw that that one was also filled quickly, they changed from SPARK Central to CottageInn Pizza. We took control of...

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Dec 15, 2008

In a previous post I mentioned that I created a Drupal module that takes any CCK content type and enables multistep functionality for it.

Nice. I finally took the time to remove any non-generic and non-standard code, so that I can publish it.

I'll quote from the README:
Multistep adds multiple-step functionality to content type editing forms. It does so by assigning a step number to each...

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Nov 25, 2008

This weekend I got my first CVS submission to Drupal accepted. It's the aforementioned CCK Field Definitions module, available here.

With this, I am officially an initiated drupaler, but first I had to get it actually committed to the repositories.

I'm not too well versed in CVS. I don't think anyone is. There was so much information on the Drupal website that it was actually dizzying. I read page after page...

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Nov 25, 2008

...when you go to your first local Drupal User Group meeting and think it's cool to hang out in IRC trying (although not always succeeding) to help other people while talking geek stuff.

And so was my first experience with the Ann Arbor Drupal User Group,

I went there at the appointed time and quickly felt at home sharing my Drupal experiences with others whom I barely knew. I knew one or two things myself, but...

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Nov 18, 2008

This Drupal module displays your CCK content type fields along with their descriptions in a dictionary-like fashion. It also allows certain users to edit those descriptions.

What is the purpose, you say? Well, I created a website for medical data entry. The information gathered in the website is used for researching the outcomes...

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