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Excel to Drupal: Tracking Training Sessions

Submitted by neil on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 01:26
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I’ve been working in corporate America for 10 years.  In this time I have seen business of all shapes and size run off of Excel spreadsheets.  Don’t be me wrong, I use Excel as much as the next guy, but when your entire workflow process is focused around updating and tracking information an Excel spreadsheet then you better take a step back and look at what you are doing.

Code Dreamers, Taxonomy Menu, Blog to it and Drupal

Submitted by neil on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 21:19
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It’s been a while since I’ve posted and I’ve been very busy.  I launched a new consulting service I call Code Dreamers.  I’ve spent tons of time on Taxonomy Menu and started to develop my ideas for Blog to It.  Drupal has began to take over my life and I’m loving it.

Upcomming plans for Blogs of Indy

Submitted by neil on Sun, 01/25/2009 - 17:26
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I haven’t posted an update for Blogs of Indy in a while.  I wanted everyone to know that I’ve been hard at work on coding and haven’t had a change to blog out it.  Here are some upcoming plans.

New Version of Feedapi Taxonomy Compare

Submitted by neil on Sun, 01/25/2009 - 15:25
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I release a new version of my Drupal  FeedAPI Taxonomy Compare Module.  I found a bug in how the new term was being related to the node.  I was using taxonomy_node_save function from taxonomy.module.  One of the first lines of code in that function is “taxonomy_node_delete_revision($node);” which removes all terms from the node.  Well I was including the current terms in what I was sending this function.  Only the new term.  So the end result was that all of the terms were removed exce

Selecting a PHP IDE

Submitted by neil on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 01:16
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Over the past few years my php development was rare and disconnected.  Notepad++ fit all of my needs.  It has a debugger plugin and some syntax highlighting.  Now that I am becoming a free lance developer I needed a more full feature IDE.  Most of my development will be for

FeedAPI Taxonomy Compare Module

Submitted by neil on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 16:45
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So I’ve done it.  My first contributed module.  I’m not say it’s good or going to change they way you use Drupal but it’s useful for me.  Since I’ve been working on my RSS aggregate site www.blogsofindy.com, I have needed more control over how the feeds are being pulled in.  I put together this module to give me more control over Taxonomy.  If you use FeedAPI check it out and give me your thoughts.

http://drupal.org/project/feedapi_taxonomy_compare

More features for the Blogger

Submitted by neil on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 15:31
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Apparently Google indexed the bogsofndy.com site and notified a few of the blog owners that their content was being published.  This was unfortunate because they saw the site before it was ready.  After a few email discussions they were on board with my idea.  I was also able to pull some good suggestions.  I now understand how passionate many bloggers are about their content.  This has lead me to add some features that will benefit the bloggers.

Blogs of Indy Update

Submitted by neil on Sat, 01/03/2009 - 01:22
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I have made alot of progress since my last posting about Blogs of Indy.  I have completed another module.  This time I am going to release it to the general public.  I’m currently waiting on my drupal cvs account approval.

TweetDeck

Submitted by neil on Sat, 01/03/2009 - 00:38
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I found a new application today called TweetDeck. If you user twitter and you have windows, this program is a must.  It makes it very easy to keep up to date on the tweets from your computer rather then logging onto the website.  The installation was a breeze and you receive real time updates when a tweet comes in.  If you receive several hundred a day, then you can filter what you see based upon who it’s from, if it is a direct message or if it is a reply.

Blogs of Indy Version 0.0000001

Submitted by neil on Wed, 12/31/2008 - 05:26
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I have completed the first version of Blogs of Indy.  http://blogsofindy.com.  This is a very early version and I still have a lot to work to do (see pervious posts).  You can get the general idea though.

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