Wednesday, March 10, 2010 - 12:12pm
It is no secret that Comcast DNS servers are at times terrible: http://blogs.computerworld.com/node/5672
At work we've found that for some reason we couldn't reach google, gmail, or all of our google products. This happened several weeks ago and was worse on Macs and our Linux machines.
We all switched to using OpenDNS, instructions here for Ubuntu: https://store.opendns.com/setup/operatingsystem/ubuntu , and not only did our web-surfing get way quicker, but we were able to reach google without a problem.
Sunday, March 7, 2010 - 11:41pm
I couldn't find this anywhere else online, so I thought I'd post it here. I think of this poem every year when the Oscars roll around. I don't think the celebs are as 'talentless' as Bukowski claims but I think he meant this as both serious critique and tongue and cheek.
This
by Charles Bukowski
self-congratulatory nonsense as the
famous gather to applaud their seeming
greatness
you
wonder where
the real ones are
what
giant cave
hides them
as
the deathly talentless
bow to
accolades
as
the fools are
fooled
again
you
wonder where
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 9:35am
list from Alex's post: http://groups.drupal.org/node/51408
I and a number of folks from Zivtech and the Philly area proposed sessions for DrupalCon San Fran in April. Voting for the sessions is now open. Vote the Philly ticket!
Jody Hamilton: Zivtech
How to Change Everything and Hack Nothing
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 - 8:37am
I've been staring at the linux folder structure for some time now. I've gotten used to where everything goes, figured out that 'etc' is for configuration and 'var' is for variables and so on, but never actually seen an explanation of it. That was why I was interested to stumble upon the Filesystem Hierarchy Documenation: http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html
Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 2:10am
I wanted to add a feed of all of my friends tweets from Twitter. Twitter provides the feed but hides it behind (it seems like htaccess) password protection. The friend feed isn't available yet in the Drupal Twitter module: http://drupal.org/node/690658 (the patch looks fine but I couldn't get the 6--3 dev version to save any user data). I wanted a quick solution and didn't have time to debug that growing module. What to do?
I found here: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/7336 that you just need to use the following:
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 1:15pm
This is course is an introduction to Drupal. No former knowledge of Drupal or website creation is required. Through six two-hour classes we will create a community video site. The final product should look something like this.
Everyone will be encouraged to setup a local installation using the Acquia installer, wamp, or mamp.
The concepts we will cover will include basic Drupal site architecture, menus, blocks, regions, cck, cck field modules including emfield, views, the Drupal community, core vs. contrib, module evaluation, and more.
Friday, December 25, 2009 - 2:11pm
One of the things I've been playing around with in the last six months is my SEO ranking. The terms I've been most interested in are myself "Aaron Couch" (I'm so modest) and "Drupal Philadelphia". Zivtech of coures dominates the latter, but this is something I've just had fun playing with.
Saturday, December 19, 2009 - 12:14pm
Cross-posted at: http://www.zivtech.com/blog/using-drupal-put-more-control-hands-clients-...
We are very excited to announce the launch of the DCTV and Beyond Bullets websites.
DCTV is a very cool media arts center based in New York. DCTV's firehouse was home to Democracy Now and currently trains 2,000 students a year. The relatively small organization can boast to winning 15 Emmy awards!
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 1:11am
I have been following the buzz about Features since the folks at Development Seed started talking up the project earlier this year. I've used Features second-hand through distributions like Open Atrium and Managing News but hadn't had a chance to dig into the module.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 5:13pm
Philadelphia has elected a new District Attorney. Seth Williams is the first African-American D.A. in Philadelphia after a landslide win against Republican Michael Untermeyer: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/69051812.html
Seth also joins a growing list of candidates who have won using Drupal. Zivtech was proud to support Seth and is looking forward to seeing what he can accomplish as District Attorney.
See Seth's site: http://www.votesethwilliams.com