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Making Drupal 8 Mobilicious 11 Sep 2012 | 08:09 pm
The time to shape our future is now At Drupalcon Munich, one of the awesome things was seeing so many people show an interest in helping out with Drupal 8’s Mobile Initiative. On the Friday after Dru...
PHP with Homebrew 25 May 2012 | 04:20 am
Tapping a new feature Homebrew is pretty damn sweet if you are a developer on Mac OS X. It’s the package manager that doesn’t suck. But the developers that run Homebrew aren’t PHP developers. And th...
The right way to learn CSS 8 May 2012 | 01:30 am
I often get asked about recommendations I may have for good resources for learning CSS. I learned CSS during the dark ages. The only online resource was the spec itself (light blue paper background an...
Rethinking Drupal’s Theme/Render Layer 19 Apr 2012 | 12:25 am
Drupal 7 and the Arrays of Doom This Friday through Sunday, I’m going to San Francisco to attend a sprint to “rebuild the theme layer” in Drupal 8. This is the next exciting step in a journey I start...
User-defined keywords in CSS 3 Mar 2012 | 06:54 am
A look back at my hopes before Sass Today I came across some notes I made 5 years ago in March of 2007. In it I dream of a world where I could define my own “CSS keywords”. Today I have something bet...
A cautionary tale for the Drupal community 16 Jan 2012 | 10:51 pm
Don’t get cocky, kid. Kevinjohn Gallagher recently wrote “WordPress has left the building”, expressing his colleagues’ and clients’ frustration at trying to use WordPress when CMS capabilities are re...
Thanksgiving wishes for Zen contributors 24 Nov 2011 | 04:34 am
and how to do the same in your project The Zen theme had its fifth birthday on October 11, 2011. While that milestone just slipped past without my notice, I’ve recently been thinking a lot about thin...
Building in the buff 7 Jul 2011 | 07:28 am
the developer’s “designing in the open” Steve Fisher and I have talked about “designing in the open” on our Using Blue video podcast. The current design on that website is a work in progress; as we f...
Stop ignoring Lorem Ipsum 4 May 2011 | 12:32 am
And learn to use your tools properly A quick Google search shows the “Death to Lorem Ipsum” meme is a reoccurring one that is once again hitting the twittersphere this week while An Event Apart is in...
Introducing the “Succinct” style for IRC 10 Nov 2010 | 11:45 pm
For those with a love/hate relationship with Colloquy Colloquy (freely available at http://colloquy.info) is a very nice Mac OS X desktop application for IRC. However, it is in serious need of some d...
