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Balle-Balle! Heading to India for April
I know, April is almost the worst time to visit India. Â The weather is around 40 degrees C (that's TOO DAMN HOT for all the yanks) and the weather conditions are:Anyway, I didn't want to miss DrupalCon...
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Managed Chaos: How I use Agile and Scrum in the classroom
http://www.kattaekwondo.com/CKTKD/Images/Karate_B-Party.jpgAgile is great for developing software. It improves quality by committing to transparency and realistic estimates. It improves morale by...
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Acquia U graduates
Do you remember what your first day on the job was like? Maybe it begins with an orientation by an HR administrator; where is the coffee, how do I get on the intranet, where is my nerf gun. For many...
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Tab Wrangler or how I stopped thrashing and learned to close my tabs
Right now, on my computer, Chrome is using 1.2GB of RAM with 3 tabs open. After 20 tabs, it's hovering around 3GB. Back in the bad old days, I would easily have 30 tabs open at any given moment, and...
View ArticleFake it till you make it, one-liner to generate content for a Drupal site
Devel Generate is great module for putting some dummy content on your site. Â You can generate taxonomy terms and vocabs, users, nodes and menus. Â Other modules, such as the voting API also plugin to it...
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Google with multiple accounts: How it should work
If you're here, you probably already have a personal google account (myname@gmail.com) and a google apps account at work (my.name@mycompany.com). Â And if you didn't have the 8-6, the kids to pick up...
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Drupalstan: What's up in the Indian Drupal community
Welcome to the first of a hopefully regular update on the Drupal community in India - Drupalistan!Contribution spotlight: Capgemini helping with drupal.org testingDrupal's massive growth has attracted...
View ArticleShow and tell
We walked into school late, as usual. I had an orange hand-held Donkey Kong game with a big crack in it my mom got from the dump. I could play it for hours at night in my sleeping bag and flashlight...
View ArticleAirtel 3G data pack / plan recharge after you run out
Airtel's 3g payment service is incredibly broken. I am a heavy data user and this happens to me all the time. Here's the scenario:You buy a data pack (say 2GB for 455 INR)You use up all 2GB before the...
View ArticleSmokes
Right now, I’m thinking of smoking a cigarette. I have a chronic sore throat, which is probably from sinusitis, hopefully not cancer. It doesn’t always hurt, but I need to drink something every time I...
View ArticleBlocking Chinese Spam from gmail
Since May I've been getting a crazy amount of Chinese spam. About 40 messages a day. Although I would one day love to learn Chinese and find out how impressive I will be to my lover after taking their...
View ArticleOSX's greatest strength is its greatest weakness
I use a macbook air. I haven't always been a mac user, but around 5 years ago I joined a company which said they would spend $3,000 on a computer so I left the land of neckbeards, printed out my...
View ArticleDeath is a quick cutpurse
He comes in a message: 300 characters on the screen or in a phone call which asks you to sit down. Why should I sit down?Death steals the memories you haven't created yet. The ones you were looking...
View ArticleThere should be more Drupal girls
My 3 year old daughter Zoya's insightful post-feminist, pre-futurist, pan-fryalist, sub-sandwichist analysis on the disturbing lack of girl Drupals.Tags:Â drupalzoyagenderfunnyvideo
View ArticleSign up to be a Tab Wrangler beta tester
Tab Wrangler is now used by thousands of people! Thank you for helping make it successful! Tab Wrangler is also an open source project, which means that anyone can contribute to it and you all own the...
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Disabling or changing mac keyboard shortcuts in the menu like minimize all
Hi! This is the story of a hidden feature in OSX and a tale of frustration and anger.I needed to override the keyboard shortcut for "Minimize All" in OSX so I could use the keyboard shortcut to comment...
View ArticleYoga
- Preamble - I'm on a writing kick. My goal is 200 words or more a day. I'm going easy on myself when it comes to quality. That doesn't mean you have to, you can shit on my dreams if you'd like you...
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FREE MANDELA and other cardboard signs
"Suck my Dukakis!"My friend Connor and I fashioned the "Suck my" on paper and magic marker taping over the original sign, the phrasing of which I can't remember, but I'm guessing "Commie Dukakis" or...
View ArticleLetter to a graduate
Below is a letter I wrote in response to a job applicant. She's 24, a recent masters graduate in computer science from a mid-tier university with absolutely zero work experience. Her cover letter...
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Acquia India Webinar Ideas
Do you have a burning Drupal question? Know something you'd like to share with the world? We're always looking for great new webinar ideas and presenters. Win an Acquia t-shirt if we choose your...
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