by gregoryheller | Jun 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
Recently I’ve been looking into new web2.0 and, I guess web3.0, and social media trends – sites and services that are popping up like mushrooms after a rain. I’ve found many interesting one and wanted to share a few, and at the same time ask that if you know of anything really cool that you think I might not know about, please send it my way, either by email/contact form or tag them on del.icio.us for:gregoryheller A few weeks ago Aaron called my attention to esciencenews.com which is a new site populated with articles culled from the net by “the Eureka! news engine, a fully automated artificial intelligence.” The site is pretty cool. Especially if you are a science buff. But if you are looking for news on, say politics, or wine, you are not going to find it there. Enter the loud3r network: loud3r.com is a network of sites that use “a combination of human editorial input combined with semantic software to assemble all the best content, from a web-wide perspective, for any given topic. The technology learns from user behavior, allowing the site to react to the community’s interests and preferences. We sift through the bad, so you don’t have to.” It’s in beta and you need to get a beta code for some of the sites, but they seem pretty forthcoming. Topic specific sites in the network include buzz3r.com about web2.0 stuff, vot3r.com about politics, decant3r.com about wine, glaci3r.com about the environment, dapp3r.com for men’s fashion and quite a few others, all ending in — you guessed it — “3r”. trackur.com is a paid service for...
by gregoryheller | Jun 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
Ron asked me for a little help on a side project where he was having trouble adding a link to a CiviCRM contribution form to a primary navigation menu. This is a pretty common requirement: you want a “donate now” link in your primary nav. You are using CiviCRM for donations. You figure, “I’ll just add the civicrm contribution form url to the path field for my menu item.” Well, unfortunately you figured wrong. Drupal will strip out some of the special characters in the civicrm contribution for url and your link will be broken! I am sure there are other ways to handle this, and I would love to hear some suggestions. I’d also live to see path aliasing for civicrm contribution forms, or some fixes to the way the menu system and drupal path aliases handle special characters, but in the mean time, here is what i do: I create a page node, select php for the input format and use the drupal goto function like this: where the url for the civicrm contribution form is mysite.com/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1 Either use the menu feature of nodes (where in the node add/edit form you create your menu item) or visit admin/build/menu to add a menu item for your drupal page...
by gregoryheller | Jun 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
<p>This morning I decided i would drop into <a href="http://www.flyingapron.net/">flying apron vegan bakery</a> after grbbing a cup of coffee at stickman (both in Fremont). I've been to flying apron before, and was not really impressed with their sweet treats, but i figured i would give it another try, maybe I just didn't get a good one. And besides <a href="http://babycakesnyc.com/">Baby Cakes</a> (in New York) manages to make everything awesome and vegan, so I know it can be done.</p> <p>Dissapointed again! I got something called an apricot footprint. it is like an oily biscut of sawdust with a mascerated over-ripe apricot in the center.</p> <p>I'm sorry, there is no compelling reason to eat this, even if you are vegan (which i am not) or have celiacs (which i don't). Garbonzo flour does not, it would seem, make good sweet treats… and canola oil is no substitute for whatever they were substituting it for. But lastly, how could they not make a good apricot compote of some sort without sugar? i mean, use some honey, or agave, a little stevia to boost the sweetness...
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