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Glades!!

This entry was posted on Thu, 02/05/2009 - 19:20

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This entry was posted on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 14:26

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Looks like "the shocker" a.k.a "W" administration has been more productive in the last month than it has been in the last three years in terms of undoing decades of work to protect the environment and some of the nicer parts of North America.
 

The last-minute rules passed during the "midnight hours" of the George Bush presidency differ from his predecessors because they are basically a project of deregulation - not regulation. Among the most far-reaching:

• Industrial-size pig, cow and chicken farms can disregard the Clean Water Act and air pollution controls. ...

• Restrictions will be eased so power plants can operate near national parks and wilderness areas.

This entry was posted on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 22:57

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This entry was posted on Tue, 11/18/2008 - 21:16

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I recently inherited the task of migrating a drupal site's user information from usernode to CiviCRM contact records. It's been a difficult task given the version of CiviCRM -- it was a 1.7 alpha release that had to be updated to CiviCRM 2.0x, which in and of itself was no small task.

Once that part was complete I had to collect all of the usernode objects and move them into a number of custom fields, which meant that I spent a lot of time sifting through the documentation and the source code.

Here's the kicker... CiviCRM almost supports this sort of thing out of the box. It would appear that one must simply translate any desired node objects into a csv file, and then use CiviCRM's import tool to map the columns to your custom fields. It appears that all of the CiviCRM components also support this.

This entry was posted on Mon, 11/17/2008 - 19:18

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Palin Sound board

This entry was posted on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 21:39

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This entry was posted on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 00:41

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I recently purchased a duet from slimdevices.com and so I've been listening to a lot of new music lately, which has led me to port 5.x version of the last.fm module to drupal 6.  The module uses last.fm's api to gather recently played information for a specific user, but could be reworked to gather other information such as charts etc. Currently, the module will attempt to retrieve cover art and will display if the track is currently playing.

This entry was posted on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 23:57

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I have been looking for a nice script to automatically grab cover art for me and I came across this nice little utility:

getalbumart.php

Once installed, grabbing cover art is often as easy as invoking "getalbumart.php -c -n cover"

This entry was posted on Mon, 09/22/2008 - 03:00

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A very small SEO boost for a few interesting articles.

• Can the presidential candidates please stop obsessing about tedious issues like the broken economy and the creeping resurgence of the Taleban?
  
  
• Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has accused the United States of emboldening Georgia to start a war in the Caucasus to test Russian resolve.
   
• The accounts of the partying atmosphere under the Bush administration's oversight of the MMS - or as Devaney put it "a culture of ethical failure" - could prove politically sensitive, given the prominent role of energy as an issue in this election year.

  - Sex and drugs for US oil firm regulators
  
  

• "You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig. You can wrap up an old fish in a piece of paper and call it change. It's still going to stink after eight years. We've had enough."

This entry was posted on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 00:06

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