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Drupalcon Boston 2008 Coding Sprint at the MIT Stata Center

Submitted by mikehostetler on Fri, 03/07/2008 - 14:43

Drupalcon is wrapping up today with a code sprint hosted at MIT's Stata Center. At least 100 drupal developers are all gathered in this beautiful building right now.

My goal for the day was to submit one patch back to the Drupal project. The ways of collaboration in Drupal are designed to keep the project quality high. The effort required to download the code, change something, test it isn't new. However, the extra steps of creating a patch, explaining what the patch does, submitting the patch to the issue queue, receiving feedback from other developers, changing my patch, uploading it again, etc, etc is new.

So, as of 4pm, I was finally able to submit not just 1, but 4 patches back to the Drupal project. Surpassing my goal is pretty exciting, but contributing back to a project that's given me so much is even more exciting. If you don't know about Drupal, check it out at http://drupal.org.

Gmail + Google Reader Greasemonkey Script Evolved

Submitted by mikehostetler on Mon, 10/16/2006 - 08:53

After seeing the excellent Gmail + Google Reader Greasemonkey script over at persistent.info over the weekend, I had to install it.  I am an avid Gmail fan and use it as my central hub for all online information.  With Google Reader's new version, I resolved to try it out as well.  I've been using Google Reader for about a week, so I don't quite have a good review of it yet, other then to say that I LOVE the keyboard shortcuts.

I have over 100 feeds in my reader.  I've learned that I cannot read over 100 feeds a day, so I've got my short list of daily feeds, which are set aside via a label in Google Reader.  I can scream through these feeds in about 15 minutes a day, which is just the right amount of news for me. 

Keynav and Clipregion - Two new jQuery Plugins

Submitted by mikehostetler on Tue, 07/25/2006 - 07:20

Things have been pretty busy, but I've managed to crank out two new jQuery plugins.  They are currently sitting in a newly created project environment I am building for Qcodo called QForge.

Keynav - Keyboard Navigation Plugin for jQuery

Clipregion - jQuery Clipregion Plugin

QTabPanel - jQuery Tab Panel for QCodo

Submitted by mikehostetler on Mon, 06/26/2006 - 10:17

Another software release to announce today in response to this thread.  I haven't used this a whole lot yet, but a few weeks ago I whipped up a Tabbed Panel for Qcodo.  It uses the excellent jQuery javascript library and the jQuery Tabs Plugin.

See the attached file for the code and examples.

QDrupal - Drupal module with the Qcodo Framework

Submitted by mikehostetler on Mon, 06/12/2006 - 10:33

UPDATE

  • After some feedback, I've updated the version of QDrupal.  You can find it below.   

 

Over the last few months, I've become involved with the Qcodo and Drupal projects.  I use both projects and believe in both of them.  Because I love Drupal and Qcodo and want to use both, I've created a mashup of the two for use in my own projects.  I've shared this code with a few people and the response has been positive.  So, I've decided to release a preliminary version.  Eventually this code will live in the QForge.  When that happens, I'll update this post.

Denver Drupal Meetup After Action Report

Submitted by mikehostetler on Wed, 05/03/2006 - 08:45

The second Denver Drupal Meetup was held last night at Paris on the Platte, a great little coffee shop near downtown Denver.  It was the first meeting I was able to attend, and I had a great time. 

I was scheduled to provide a demonstration on how to install Drupal from scratch to create a small 5-page corporate website.  The goal was to screencast this and then provide it online for those who weren't able to attend.  Unfortunately, the ambient noise prevented this from happening.  I'm going to try and find some time this coming week to do the screencast anyways.  Dries even has offered to host it on the main Drupal website, so I won't get killed on bandwidth.  :-)

Keep a watch on the Denver Drupal Group website for upcoming events.  If you've got an idea for what to present the next time, please either email me or post it up on the groups website.

Drupal 4.7.0 Released!!!

Submitted by mikehostetler on Mon, 05/01/2006 - 07:54

It's not often that I would consider using three (yes, three) exclamation points in a title, but today I could have almost used four. 

Dries announced at 4:25AM MST that Drupal 4.7 has gone gold.  This is very exciting, I've been waiting for this release for a LONG time.

Way to go everyone.

What makes this even better is that I'm going to be presenting at the Denver Drupal meetup tomorrow night.  I'll be able to use the 4.7 branch to install a full website!  Talk about releasing just in time!

http://drupal.org/drupal-4.7.0

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FireBug plans to add javascript debugging

Submitted by mikehostetler on Thu, 04/27/2006 - 09:37

FireBug plans to add javascript debuggingFireBug plans to add javascript debuggingHave I mentioned how much I love FireBug yet?  If you work with HTML, CSS or Javascript at all, it's a must-have Firefox extension.  The developer, Joe Hewitt, has taken many "best-of" extensions and combined them into one.  Now, as if that wasn't good enough, he's adding javascript debugging.  Goodbye Venkman, I won't miss you.

Representational State Transfer (REST) Client for Testing

Submitted by mikehostetler on Fri, 04/21/2006 - 17:41

Overview

I was in need of a REST client to use to quickly test a REST server I'm building. Nothing existed out there so I'm releasing this little gem.

It currently supports GET, POST and DELETE through Prototype's AJAX library. It's meant to be simple and easy to modify.

I am releasing it under the GPL License.

 ChangeLog

April 21, 2006 - Initial Release 

 Download

Version 1.0 - rest_client1.0.zip 

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Exciting times

Submitted by mikehostetler on Mon, 04/17/2006 - 08:24

I'm not going to apologize for not posting.  However, I thought I'd at least post a quick "What's going on?".

Exciting things have been happening over in my neck of the woods lately.  First off, my wife and I are buying our first house.  I'm really excited about this.  We've put an offer on a condominium up in the mountains and found it was in foreclosure!  We're moving forward on that, but it's a big old hairy mess.

Next off, Greg Knaddison and I have partnered to start a simple little business that will be targetted towards the Drupal Open Source project.  I don't want to give it away yet, as we're still laying plans, but it should be pretty exciting.

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