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It's official

RoloDMonkey — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:48:34 -0400

For years, iRolo.net was both my personal and professional website. Since the site makeover, it has become purely a venue for my professional publications. However, I have always had a lot of fun, non-work-related content that I wanted to share. Therefore, Anna and I are announcing annadrew.name. Feel free to hop on over and take a look.

Drupal Droplets: Task One

RoloDMonkey — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:41:36 -0400

The setup

Recently, I did some pro-bono consulting work for a client. As part of our agreement I made it clear that I would retain the rights to the code I wrote. The reason I did this is because I wanted to be able to give back to the community, and now I am going to do that. The work was made up of six tasks, ranging from trivial to complex. I intend to write six articles based on these tasks. This is the first.

Services

RoloDMonkey — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:33:53 -0400

The lists below may seem sparse. This is deliberate. I could give you a laundry lists of every programming language, software package, operating system, and technology buzzword that I have ever worked with. I won't subject you to that. I will just tell you my greatest strength:

I find solutions.

Drupal, webform and Dynamic Checkboxes

RoloDMonkey — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:03:19 -0500

Below you will find my description of how I made a new component for Drupal's webform module that dynamically displays a selection of checkboxes. I will go over why I made it. Then I will explain the code step by step. I have also attached a copy of the file for download.

Drupal, Firefox and the Mysterious Grey Line

RoloDMonkey — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:06:25 -0500

Ever since I started making custom themes for Drupal, I kept running into a strange problem. If my theme or my content included a table, when I looked at it in Firefox the table would have a thin grey line on the top. I finally figured out what was causing this and I would like to share it with you.

If you want to skip the lecture, you can click here for the solution.

New Drupal "blueprint" Template for iRolo.net

RoloDMonkey — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:06:55 -0400

Update 2008-08-22: This page has received a large amount of traffic from people looking for implementations of the Blueprint CSS theme project. Here are some links to help out those people:

 Doesn't Do Style

RoloDMonkey — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:18:23 -0400

While making the first article in the "Mistakes I've Made" series. I immediately came across the fodder for the next. I was trying to create CSS for my code examples and discovered that using <pre /> just won't cut it anymore.