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by Joaquin Lippincott, President
By now you may have heard about the frenzy for grabbing a personalized URL for Facebook. Within 15 minutes of the service being available Friday night, over a half million had Facebook usernames and within 12 hours the number grew to 3 million. Read More…
by Barrett Olafson, Director of Web Development
I was recently working on a Brazilian Drupal 6.x site that uses CCK forms and needed some functionality to map a dropdown select list of states to another dropdown of cities in the chosen state, which I accomplished using a combination of the drupal_json function, as well as jQuery and AJAX, hooked into the drupal menu system. I learned how to use this functionality quite easily from Pro Drupal Development Chapter 17 - Using jQuery and have implemented it on a number of sites to date. Pro Drupal Development is definitely worth having as a desktop resource. Read More…
by Joaquin Lippincott, President
Facebook just announced a public API to the Facebook Stream (aka Facebook updates). This adds to the already sizable API's available via Facebook and takes them into direct competition with Twitter, who's success can be at least partly attributed to their open API and the plethora of Twitter driven application that are now available. Read More…
by Sean McKeon, Web Developer
Ran into an interesting little snag this morning - a client's Drupal site was spitting out "Access Denied" errors for all page loads by anonymous users. It didn't appear to be a permissions problem - the nodes just wouldn't let anyone look at them. A bit of Googling found a bunch of posts like this that say that, for some mysterious reason, Drupal can lose the contents of the node_access table and you need to repopulate them. Read More…
by Joaquin Lippincott, President
I just read an article by @marshallk (thanks to @turoczy for the link) asking how much you would pay for Twitter. Mr. Kirkpatrick seems to think Twitter is pretty darn valuable and would be willing to pay $50 per month. Included in this article is a poll asking people how much they would pay for the service. I found that pretty interesting. Based on when I filled out the poll (at 169 votes) the breakdown was: Read More…
by Sean McKeon, Web Developer
If you've built out more than a few Drupal projects, you've probably gone through the same song & dance a number of times - find the most recent release of core, download, find the most recent release of Views, download, find the most recent release of CCK... Read More…
by Barrett Olafson, Director of Web Development
We recently needed to fill missing geocode values in a project's database. Using some PHP magic and taking advantage of hook_cron() this is how we filled the missing values: /** * Implementation of hook_cron() * When the cron runs, try to resolve any locations that have a lat or lon = 0 */ function overmap_cron() { Read More…
by Joaquin Lippincott, President
I recently received email notification that Authorize.net will be deprecating their SSL 2.0 Protocal the week of March 16 - 20, 2009. All of our Authorize.net ecommerce development was done using the 3.0 version, even going back a few years so it's been around a while. However don't be surprised when ecommerce sites (especially old ones) stop accepting transactions in the middle of March. Read More…
by Sam LaRoe, Account Manager
Last night, nearly 90 people packed into The Agency for the official kickoff presentation with the Social Media Club - Portland. Read More…
by Barrett Olafson, Director of Web Development
Some browsers like to be helpful and help by remembering certain form fields. I was having a problem with Firefox auto-populating my some of my form fields (specifically field type 'password' and 'password_confirm') in a custom module I wrote. Read More…