I’ve been theming the hell out of a few drupal sites lately, and I’ve decided to use echo over print in all my theme files.

Just found this from The Idea Shower: CSS Text Wrapper. It lets you wrap text around non-rectangular objects, which is usually undoable in HTML.

I just came across Drush, a drupal command line utility. Sounds like something I should’ve checked into a long time ago. At least I do use the shell for a good amount of my work, but it looks like Drush could even further speed things up for me.

Packt Publishing was kind enough to send a copy of MODx Web Development by Antano Solar John for my review. The book covers the essentials of building a site with MODx, and it’s a pretty good read.

modx CMS is quite different than other CMSs. In fact, it’s quite a refreshing change. Instead of worrying about nodes, views, sections, categories, and all the other fun stuff that goes along with building CMSs, modx takes a much different approach: You worry about the output. Period. It’s quite different.

Funny: Facebook showed an ad. I clicked it, thinking it’s worth a look:

If you’ve worked with MVC frameworks, then you’ll probably agree that the VC portion of MVC is pretty nice. It really helps keep your presentation code separate from application code. For example:

I had a difficult time trying to get Drupal to load a menu directly from a template file, such as page.tpl.php. I had a menu titled ‘Header Links’. This is not one of the default menus included with drupal. Those are Navigation, Primary Links, and Secondary Links, and by default, these three menus are available [...]