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A quick tip for Views newbies…
In Views 2.x (Drupal 6.x), if you want to add or remove fields in a Views display, and you want that to override the Defaults display instead of updating it:
Let me introduce you to the best language you’ve never heard of: Objectivist-C.
Although academic computer scientists have generally dismissed Objectivist-C, it has a zealous following among self-taught programmers and college sophomores.
Objectivist-C was invented by Russian-American programmer Ope Rand. Based on the principle of rational self-interest, Objectivist-C was influenced by Aristotle’s laws of logic and Smalltalk. In an unorthodox move, Rand first wrote about the principles of Objectivist-C in bestselling novels, and only later set them down in non-fiction.
Here’s what you need to know to program in Objectivist-C. [more...]
Posted by jstrecker on 2012.03.14 @ 22:39
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Need to store up some items and process them en masse in a cron job? That’s a perfect use case for the Queue API (for Drupal 7+) or the drupal_queue module (the backport for Drupal 6).
Concrete example: One of our consulting clients was using a synchronous webservice for their retail store locator. We needed to create a form where store owners could change whether they’re listed in the store locator. When a store owner submits the form, should she have to wait around while our site sends her change to the store locator webservice? We didn’t think so. So we decided to use Drupal’s Queue API, which lets us save up all the store owners’ changes and send them to the webservice in a batch.
Here’s a simple example of adding items to a queue in a form submit handler and processing them in the next cron run. [more...]
“You should read this book,” a friend told me. “It says that women don’t make as much as men because they don’t negotiate their salaries.”
The book was Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide, by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever, published in 2003. The notion that “women don’t make as much as men because they don’t negotiate their salaries”, it turns out, is a myth — a myth spun from the sloppy science and sexist assumptions of Women Don’t Ask. [more...]
Posted by jstrecker on 2012.01.03 @ 22:25
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When you’re getting started with iOS development, it’s hard to figure out those first steps. What developer tools do you need? What are some good tutorials to start with? Where to begin delving into Apple’s thousands of pages of documentation?
That’s why I created iOS Development on 1 Page — a not-overwhelming guide for iOS newbies.
Is there any essential info about iOS development that should be added to iOS Development on 1 Page? Let me know!
