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Tuesday, August 2, 2011 - 7:46pm

Rebecca has been hard at work reading 150 books this summer. Occasionally I get to pick up a few crumbs of her literary smorgasbord. Liked this one:

Technologies

by George Oppen

Tho in a sort of summer the hard buds blossom
Into feminine profusion

The 'inch-sized
Heart, ' the little core of oneself,
So inartistic,

The inelegant heart
Which cannot grasp
The world
And makes art

Is small

Like a small hawk
Lighting disheveled on a window sill.

Like hawks we are at least not
Nowhere, and I would say
Where we are

Tho I distract

Monday, January 17, 2011 - 5:54pm

Rebecca and I are taking that next step.

Of course I had to make a Drupal site for the occasion: http://rebeccaandaaron.us/

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 5:41pm

originally posted: http://www.zivtech.com/blog/creating-custom-plugin-context

Context is one of the most useful architectural modules for Drupal. Context works by setting conditions such as a path or a node type and, if that condition is present, reactions such as adding blocks to regions or setting an active menu.

Context comes with a number of useful conditions and reactions. But what if you need something more specific? Context offers a well-built API that makes creating your own conditions and reactions a relatively painless procedure. The API is well documented but hopefully this example will be useful for some folks.

Saturday, October 9, 2010 - 3:16pm

I recently designed and through together a site for Sherrie Cohen for her campaign for a Philadelphia City Council at Large seat.

I can't remember when I first met Sherrie, it has been a long time now, but I most recently worked with her during the campaign to save the libraries and essential city services back in 08/09: http://coalitiontosavethelibraries.blogspot.com .

I support Sherrie because she is true to her motto as tireless "warrior for economic and social justice." I look forward to see her mix it up this campaign season and to a victory next Spring.

Friday, September 17, 2010 - 8:27am

I've gotten together with some folks around Madison to start a group called "Net Neutral Wisconsin." The specter of a tiered internet has been hanging over our heads for a number of years now. The image above, if I recall correctly, is at least four or five years old.

Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 11:34am

Today is RJS' first day of classes this semester at UW. She's teaching a class on comic books (ahem, 'graphic novels') so she made this awesome image for her students. Was so impressed I thought I'd share.

Saturday, August 28, 2010 - 11:35pm

Like most folks working on the web I spend most of my time doing my development on my local machine. At Zivtech we also have a development server on which we test and share and allow the clients to add content and give us feedback. And then we have the live sites themselves. If everyone is up-to-date between the three, the sites will look exactly the same except for the URLs.

To help differentiate I made this simple Grease Monkey script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/84808 that places an unobtrusive reminder in the bottom corner of the screen. Just a helpful tool for the grind.

Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 8:08am

Since I've moved to Madison, I've been working for the ziv from home. I'm interacting with folks from Philly and all over. In this work-a-day internets-everywhere world it often feels weird chatting, talking, and emailing with folks without seeing where they are. So here is my setup.

Monday, July 26, 2010 - 8:00am

photo by Peter Coons

Thanks to the folks from UW and Brazen who helped put together DrupalCamp Wisconsin in Madison this past Friday and Saturday. There were over a hundred folks in attendance, great sessions, and Drupal cupcakes!

Here are the slides from my presentations:

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 7:47am

Sadly, after almost two years and about two thousand miles I had to sell the Rebel. It was hard watching some stranger drive away with it. Thanks for the memories little guy!

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