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:

Here’s a quick tutorial going over how to get a simple tooltip working using the jQuery library and the Tooltip plugin. We’ll set up the help text to be displayed when a user mouses-over a question mark next to a form element.

Often designers won’t budge on allowing you to use text for primary navigation menus. In the past images were embedded directly into the HTML and awful javascript functions were used for displaying multiple states. Nowadays, though, you can use images and text to please designers and search engines by doing a bit of simple math [...]

I’m evaluating a collaboration/project management web application called Project Pier. So far I like it, but I got a weird upload error when I was testing file uploads. The error read: Failed to create folder: /var/…xxxx.xxx/httpdocs/uploads/

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Apple uses this SproutCore thing for a lot of their mobile stuff. I’m going to play around a bit with this. Tom gave it a shot, says that so far it’s very rails-esque, in that you can create an application just like running rails myapplication. Also, he mentions that once you build it, it will [...]