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Re: Give me your podcast suggestions!

RobLoach — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:10:20 -0000

Linux Link Tech SHow
Linux Basement
Acquia Podcast
Lullabot Podcast
Jupiter Broadcasting
Progressive Aggressive

Re: Facebook could kill Twitter? Yeah, and I'm a flying pig

RobLoach — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:06:08 -0000

Twitter is trying to be one thing and one thing only. A way of posting public status updates. Facebook is trying to be everything at once. They're completely different services, and neither of them are going away in favor of the other.

OpenMicroBlogging FTW!

Re: Drupal and the Desktop Online | Rob Loach .Net

RobLoach — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:50:27 -0000

Really sorry, but I don't have the code anymore....

Re: The perfect Drupal development environment

RobLoach — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:57:20 -0000

Yay! http://drupal.org/project/demo and http://drupal.org/project/demo_profile .

Re: kkkkkkk

RobLoach — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:14:22 -0000

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Re: kkkkkkk

http://localhost/drupal/6/node/2 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:14:22 -0000

Re: kkkkkkk

RobLoach — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:12:27 -0000

This is child of test, damn it.

Re: kkkkkkk

http://localhost/drupal/6/node/2 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:12:27 -0000

This is child of test, damn it.

Re: kkkkkkk

RobLoach — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:03:13 -0000

This is the second test!

Re: kkkkkkk

RobLoach — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:49:50 -0000

This is a test, damn it!

Re: Hello!

RobLoach — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:01:48 -0000

This is a test comment Hello!

Re: Test

RobLoach — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:26:41 -0000

Yo, what's up?

Re: Drupal 7 Code Freeze = Two Months?

Cris — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:43:30 -0000

I'm personally hoping for a June-July time frame for D7. Working for a Drupal based dev company, I can say with some authority that we aren't using D6 hardly at all yet, and that just blows my mind... it's been out for 6 months! I know other Drupal companies are in the same (or similar) boat. When you have to meet <a href="http://www.cafemuhabbet.com/" title="adtech ile reklam 2.0 dönemi başlıyor ve Trkycmhrytllbtpydrklcktr r10.net seo yarışması">adtech ile reklam 2.0 dönemi başlıyor ve Trkycmhrytllbtpydrklcktr r10.net seo yarışması the needs of customers you have to have as feature complete a product as possible, and D6 is still missing a few features before we can say that. Those features (thankfully) are under development, but still...

Re: SoundMAX + Vista = Pain and fail

http://coldacid.net/blog/2008/11/05/soundmax-vista-pain-and-fail — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:35:45 -0000

Sorry dude, you just ain't selling me on it. Especially not Eclipse, you've already heard and read my rants about that POS.

Re: SoundMAX + Vista = Pain and fail

RobLoach — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:22:04 -0000

MonoDevelop 2.0 is pretty slick now. I use Eclipse primarily though. If you're looking to build .NET software applications, the closest you can get on Linux is a Windows XP/Vista VirtualBox, or Mono.... VirtualBox is pretty awesome though, particularly with seamless mode turned on.

Re: SoundMAX + Vista = Pain and fail

http://coldacid.net/blog/2008/11/05/soundmax-vista-pain-and-fail — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:11:49 -0000

No.

I write programs for WIndows XP and Vista, therefore I need Vista, even if the hardware is old and crappy. There are hardware alternatives supported by Vista, which aren't expensive at all, that will give me back my beloved sounds.

On top of that, there are no good IDEs on Linux. When Microsoft starts releasing Visual Studio for Linux, perhaps I'll reconsider making Linux my primary OS. Until then, nay.

Re: SoundMAX + Vista = Pain and fail

RobLoach — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:58:36 -0000

The answer is Linux!

I've been really enjoying Linux Mint, although they haven't yet updated to Ubuntu 8.10. I keep on hearing Fedora is good too. Linux Mint is pretty much Ubuntu, prettified, with some usability enhancements and the restricted extras.

Re: Unspoken Rules of Drupal

RobLoach — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:47:07 -0000

Hey Tom! Loved your post :-) .

1 & 2: What if you want Drupal behind a reverse proxy? What if you want to use memcached? node and path caching with advcache? Serving files from a dedicated file server? All require changing core. Drupal core is not perfect and does not provide all the flexibility needed, especially when running large sites on more than one machine.

I have absolutely no problem with changing core, as long as it's documented where the patch is in the drupal.org issue queue. I wouldn't consider that hacking core because it's documented, and it's publicly available on drupal.org.

If you're behind a reverse proxies, you should be participating in one of the oldest Drupal.org node issues available: http://drupal.org/node/7881

For dedicated or external file servers, it really depends on what you're trying to accomplish, but the Media Mover API is pretty robust. Of course, it depends on what you're doing. Amazon S3 anyone?

Memcache is here. Advcache is here. Both are documented and there is a push for more of this in Drupal core itself.

Again, I have no problems with changing core, as long as there's some documentation outlining what's going on, as well as an ongoing issue in the Drupal issue queue so that progress is made into making it possible to accomplish the same thing without having to change core. It's hacking core that I'm against.

Also, upgrading a hacked core is actually very easy - download the release tarball of the version you're running, download the latest release tarball, diff 'em and apply that patch to your hacked core, I've gone from 5.2 to 5.11 without having to hand patch a single thing.

Upgrading a hacked core is possible, but isn't that fun. Can't go wrong with a simple "cvs update -r DRUPAL-5-11".

4. Ugh, there are so many half-finished, poorly written or overly general modules out there. Yes, I could use messaging and notifications module to send email alerts when someone replies to each user's comment. It would add nearly 9k lines of complex code to my Drupal install and require hours to learn to configure or I could write my own in 100 lines in a couple hours.

I hit this all the time and I really wish that I could have the resources to fix all the problems that I find in contributed modules that I use/maintain. Sometimes, you do have to just put together your own small solution into fixing something that already exists. In a Drupal Utopian society, however, every contributed module would be awesome and do what it advertises perfectly. The big ones (CCK and Views) fall in this category and that's part of what has been attributed to Drupal's success. Other small unpopular contributed modules though? Not so much. Sad, but true....

Someone inspired by fc_helper hell?

lol

7. This would be great except for the 200 lines of errors that all my contrib modules generate. Another point against #4

Again, spend a bit of time hacking at the module and contribute a patch. It might resurrect the module so that everyone could benefit from it again. You're right though, sometimes we just don't have the resources available to fix things and just have to hack our own solution.

9. Mostly agree, but deadpr0grammer seems to have a good time complaining about everything, might be worth a shot.

Haha, you know him too well.

Re: HTML formatting in a comment?

RobLoach — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:17:49 -0000

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Re: Unspoken Rules of Drupal

RobLoach — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:52:09 -0000

Patch++

Re: Unspoken Rules of Drupal

RobLoach — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:08:19 -0000

Dave wins!

Re: Unspoken Rules of Drupal

RobLoach — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 05:27:11 -0000

Haha, caught on my own rules! :-)

Re: Gone for a week, back October 27

RobLoach — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:29:43 -0000

Have an awesome cruise!

Re: Google Reader & Google Apps for Your Domain - Why Can't Google Share Accounts?

RobLoach — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:54:45 -0000

I'd love to have Google Reader in part of my Google Apps on my domain. Wish Google would push more services there....

Re: Disqus and Drupal: Rethinking Comments | Rob Loach .Net

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:58:41 -0000

just testing module