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Re: Stop Serving The Compliment Sandwich

nadavoid — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:37:36 -0000

I definitely agree with this article, yet for a different reason. My complaint about the compliment sandwich is that it trains the person receiving it to expect a criticism if someone starts with a compliment. They start with a compliment, but you immediately brace for the "however", even if there is none coming.

I do think the sentiment is good though. The idea that criticism is more constructive when the overall environment is healthy, welcoming, supportive, and seeks to understand you. Compliments, public praise, kind gestures: when given regularly and in isolated occasions, go a long way to create a positive culture. Just don't get in the habit of combining them with critiques. I have a lot of respect for keeping focused on the task at hand.

Re: Exporting Custom Date Formats in Drupal

nadavoid — Thu, 08 May 2014 18:16:52 -0000

Hi Nate. Great question. And you're exactly right. When adding custom code to an existing feature, the place to add it is at the bottom of the .module file. This is the only file you can count on features leaving (mostly) alone. It may add or remove some things at the top (always the top) of the file depending on what components you export or remove later.

Re: Is Drupal the best CMS/Framework available?

nadavoid — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:43:16 -0000

From what I understand and from my limited experience with it, Wordpress is simply and squarely "the blogging platform." If all you need is a blog, and maybe one extra feature added some time down the road, wordpress should do fine for you.

My preferred system is Drupal. Yes it's definitely more work to make it "user friendly" because Drupal doesn't make any assumptions about what sort of site you're going to build. Its claim to fame is definitely its flexibility and its community. I'm convinced you won't find a friendlier more helpful open source community. And as it seems you've already experienced in your work with Drupal, CCK and Views can make you feel like a powerful superhero without writing a line of code. (well, you'll probably want to do some theming to make it look exactly the way you want.)

So in my opinion, Drupal gives you the best platform for future growth and development. Adding content types, fields, multiple displays of this content (gallery, calendar, etc.) is where the meat is.

Good luck with your decision and with your future site development!

Re: Selecting a PHP IDE

nadavoid — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:46:46 -0000

Consider using Eclipse PDT. www.eclipse.org/pdt
- Free & OpenSource
- Eclipse is the foundation of a lot of other projects
- Has a lot of momentum behind it

You have a to add a few things to it to equal Komodo. But if free is pretty important, it's worth a look.

Re: 2.0 Moving Along Again

nadavoid — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:33:28 -0000

I'm so happy to see that you're able to make so much more progress with 2.0 now. I'm in awe, honestly.

I do have a request. You mentioned that you're dropping the built-in print functionality. I'd like to request that you leave it in. I think it's a real client-pleaser. As a developer, I agree with you, that print stylesheets are better. But I've gone round and round with more than one client who wanted their site to print out exactly like it appears on screen. It's still confusing to a lot of people when they hit "print" and get something off the printer that's formatted differently from what they saw on screen. But of course there's no surprise if they're already looking that stripped-down "print-friendly" version of the page.

So anyway, if the print-friendly functionality is already there, would you consider leaving it in?