The Graceful Exits blog

User loading and saving in Drupal 6.x

Nearly a year ago I broke down user_load() and user_save() in Drupal 5. I had to put together workflows for a number of jobs, specifically integrating the creation, instantiation and updating of users with an external system. Fast forward nearly twelve months, and we have to do it all over again for D6, for different work.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31

• Farmoor Reservoir worth the walk today. Shiny, flat and cold; solid under sun. #
• @wesayso you and @tomd have inspired me to install Quicksilver for Ubuntu, aka gnome-do #
• @wesayso "...
  

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EditInline second alpha release

EditInline was first discussed here. It's a Drupal module that provides your site with handy editing links, inline with each node title, which rather than taking you to a separate editing page use a lightbox overlay on the current page to provide an inline editing interface.

It's currently in alpha but available under GPL on the Torchbox public subversion repository.

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Oxford Geek Night 12 this Wednesday

It might be a bank holiday for you, but I'm currently putting the final touches to Oxford Geek Night 12, which is this Wednesday.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-24

• Buds, @brighty, that's it. Do keep up at the back there. Bulbs live underground, of course. #
• Lots of cooking with @griffinkate today. New bakeware is the harbinger of banana muffins, I've learned. Buy some more trays! #
• I feel awful. Solids so far today: 1 oatcake, 1/5 banana. What hit me?
  

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17

• My hangover drifts in and out of my head. Right now it's sitting at the kitchen table, so I'm sitting in the lounge. #
• @griffinkate er... Mint Sauce! Hahahaha... Oh. #swinefail #
• Styling form submits... "first, change to using the button element." Oh. Plan B?
  

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Creativity isn't all that common

Beth Kanter advocates Creative Commons in the latest post on her blog about not-for-profit organizations and social media. She discusses how she's managed to introduce often quite recalcitrant nonprofit sub-sectors to the concept.

I can't comment on not-for-profits in general.

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The problem of many types of content

David Yelvington mentioned back in December 2008 that his Drupal site had over 30 content types:

Why on earth so many content types? It's easy to see good reasons for news items to be structurally more complex than a simple blog post. But we also have some types of content you probably wouldn't think about at first. Wire stories are an interesting case.... Promos are another....

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-10

• Baking bread, full of home-made soup, listening to Fleet Foxes, with garden lights from @j4 + @addedentry twinkling away. This is the life. #
• @davecranwell the App Engine bug queue is quietly responsive if it's an actual conflict; the plain Google Group noisier but less useful.
  

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Oxford Geek Night 12: messages, generators and hot, hot sex

The lineup for OGN12 has been finalized, and we've got another special feature. This time round, our two keynotes have been replaced with an extended superkeynote about messaging technologies---the web, social media, small communications and instant messaging---called The webs are made of messages.

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