Solving technology problems, one at a time
Bai Yun’s fifth cub was born on August 5, 2009 in the San Diego Zoo. Of course, I’ve been diligently shooting over-the-top-cute screen captures from the webcam ever since. Here are some of the best, in order.
On installing the OAuth module in a Drupal site, this error appeared: fatal error: class ‘OAuthCommonHooks’ not found in [path] Fatal error: Class ‘OAuthCommonHooks’ not found in /drupal-6.13/sites/all/modules/oauth_common/oauth_common.module on line 58 Apparently you can fix
Continue readingBy default, Drupal enforces file-size limits on uploads. Although there is a place in Drupal’s File Upload settings to alter the maximum file sizes (/admin/settings/uploads), chances are your PHP settings limit file size to 2MB
Continue readingIf the scratch disk used by Final Cut Pro cuts out in the middle of an export, Final Cut Pro becomes unstable: the next time you try to launch it, it will crash on startup.
Continue readingNow that Internet Explorer 8 is out, I’m getting some reports of font-size issues: text that looks fine in all other browsers becomes very tiny. When I check the same pages in my own IE8
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Drupal’s Draggable Views module makes it possible to create tables with Ajax-style drag and drop rows. Each row has a “handle” that makes it possible to drag it up or down to change the order of the items in the table. Draggable views are perfect for making “To-do” lists, outlines, and any kind of list where you need to constantly reorder individual items. I recently used it to build a draggable “card sort” view for research cards. This enables a researcher to enter cards in no particular order, then organize them when it comes time to write up the research. It would work just as well for organizing a novel or script.
The problem with the Views module is that there is sort of an irreducible complexity to designing a view, and it can be quite difficult at first to figure out all the steps involved in getting the outcome you want. There are so many options and settings and a few minor usability issues which make it all quite confusing at first. This tutorial will give you an introduction to the concepts and walk you through building an idea organizer using draggable tables.
Here’s a closeup of a Draggable table. Each row has a cross-shaped “handle” that enables you to drag the entire row up and down the table at will.
Good news for those who are interested in creating interactive learning content on the Mac: Adobe Captivate for Mac is in beta testing. You can volunteer to test the pre-release versions here: Prerelease Interest Form
Continue readingYou can set up multiple workspaces in CVS. This is useful for maintaining DEV, TEST and PROD environments, syncing them all to the project in the CVS repository, or it can be used to maintain differerent projects. You can also have more than one project folder in a single workspace.
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