Eric's blog

I'm heading out for New Orleans today with Frank and George. It should be a great seminar. There are some very interesting presenters. I'll be blogging while there so keep an eye out here.

I'm lucky enough to work at a company that allows working from home, but recently my @home pc died suddenly.The motherboard was dead. So being no stranger to having PC's fail, I decided that now was a great time to rebuild my computer, and this time, make the leap to Ubuntu as my @home workstation.

With Drupal5 and Views, theming was very straight forward: just add a specifically named function and there you go. Views2 changes all of that, and that is frustrating at first.

A new module pushed into the wild! This module takes the grunt work out of creating url aliases for views using taxonomy term id arguments.

Check out Dummy Lipsum, OpenInWindow and Tab to Window add-ons for Firefox.

Install this extension and you can copy the current html page title to your clipboard.

One of our clients uses Feedburner for an RSS feed they provide. They also want to use Tumblr. I was asked, “What is Feedburner anyway?” If you’re wondering the same thing, here’s some basic information.

Here are some IE and Firefox web developer tools that help with fixing CSS / HTML issues.