HTTP://WWW.NETVIBES.COM In my experience with talking with folks that are much more tech savvy than I, one of the most surprising things is how few people know about Netvibes, even more surprising is how few people in the world actually use this brilliant free resource.   I’ve had this post in draft forward for well over
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Well this was a jolly good problem that took 4 hours to fix. I’ve implemented the Audio Module this week to allow our Sound team to upload soundtrack, foley and effects work just the same as the 2D and 3D guys upload their work.  Unfortunately when I went to upload a 40MB .ogg file the
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Or is it?  because for a long time trying to install a few editors for posts and content I saw nothing!  My first foray was with FCKeditor, which was rough around the edges and ended up having a major major bug in it.  Ugh, so annoying.  When you went to edit a post it would
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The first Obvious yet overlooked thing I just got around to setting up with a module called ‘Comment Notify’ Comment notify is a great little module that I didn’t even think about over the past week and a half of drupal setup but it is such a common sense one that I wonder how it
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So the 1/2 a chapter is accounted for because of a little upgrade that needed to happen on jquery UI.   You should do this regardless of if you’ve encountered any bugs but I started to receive errors telling me that ui.core.js is missing.  In which case you’ll need to install the latest version of jquery.ui
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If you were thinking that the Drupal excitement was going to let up as we progressed then you are definitely in for a treat because it’s still as troublesome wrangling this CMS to do exactly what I want it to as before. Because I’ve spent the past 2-3 years working with Dotproject I’ve come to
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Alright, what is this, day 10 since I started up the Drupal install, although really only day 5 since I’ve gotten serious with this beast.  The love affair has certainly been rocky but there might be an end in sight.  Today is the first day that I’ve gotten enough of the underlying systems in place
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Alright, the nightmare of getting a fully integrated Wiki into Drupal is finally over.  Hopefully some lucky soul finds this and saves themselves the literal days I spent getting this up and running.  At the end of my last post I mentioned a few links and articles here and there and I’m happy to report
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So for the past few days I have been up to my ears in Drupal.  I am finding the overall setup and implementation easier than I remember although it certainly is time consuming to learn and get things just right.  The biggest thing I would say is finding a theme that looks somewhat decent to
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Up until this point I have been managing remote teams with a smattering of very useful tools.  phpBB3 or YaBB for message boards, Dotproject for project management, MediaWiki for internal documents, TeamSpeak for our voice conferences.  My toolbox was built up our of trial and error and sometimes following the path of least resistance.  But
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