Add a field to Contact Us form in Drupal

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I needed to add a checkbox to Drupal’s Contact Us form for a client of mine. The client requested that I add a way for those filling out the form to request a newsletter. I discovered it’s pretty easy to add a form field and get it added as part of the email that’s sent…. Read more »

See who's following your friends on Twitter

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Twitter allows you to see who users are following, but for whatever reason, doesn’t allow you to see who is following users. This is lame, and I’m not sure what the thought process is behind it. But there’s a neat little Google search hack I came up with today that you can use to see… Read more »

Mephisto to Typo migration?

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This blog you are reading is powered by Mephisto. I originally created this blog using my own code in PHP and was so tired of re-inventing the wheel that I went out and researched what I thought would be the best blogging software for my needs. I’m in love with Ruby on Rails, so one… Read more »

I got screwed by Adobe AIR Beta 1

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For anyone out there using Adobe AIR products already: BEWARE! Something that I didn’t pay much attention to when downloading Beta 1 was that it was going to stop working on December 11. I’ve been using an application called Ora Time and Expense that only works with Beta 1, which is why I haven’t switched… Read more »

piped navigation with css

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You’ve seen piped navigation before. Typically found in the footer of websites, appearing as a list of links separated by a | (pipe). There’s a nice way to fake piping using really clean, standards friendly code along with our friend, CSS. I’ve been using this method for years now and am quite happy with it…. Read more »