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Drupalcon Paris 2009 - Day 1

Posted Tue, 01/09/2009 - 17:29 by chris

Official day one was more a warm-up day but the venue was plenty busy enough. The code sprint room was rammed and overflowed into the break-out room where the sponsor expo is.

I was hoping to blog from the barcamp but I ended up hosting one of the sessions and then looking for my phone for the other 2. That was annoying as I found it in a pocket of my bag I’d already checked about 5+ times. Bah.

Anyway, fun was had by all despite the internet being a bit temperamental. Apparently that has been fixed for tomorrow.

Drupalcon Paris 2009 - Arrival

Posted Mon, 31/08/2009 - 07:29 by chris

I took the Eurostar over and arrived at about 17:30 local time which gave me a few moments in my room to change but I soon headed out to the venue to see who was there. I met up with a couple of hitherto unknowns and we ended up going to grab some food at Chez Papa’s.

I really have go to recommend the Magret de canard (with the poivre vert) it was cooked just right. Tomorrow is the proper first day of the con so I shall be up with the birds to do some work, listening, learning and networking.

Drupalcamp Paris 4

Posted Sun, 30/08/2009 - 17:31 by chris

I shall be live blogging (or trying to) from the first session I will be attending on Tuesday 1st Sept at Drupalcon Paris 2009. I'm hoping that the twitter hashtag of #drupalcon doesn't saturate the feed though. I might have to remove it if it gets bad.

The barcamp page seems a bit full so I might not get in. Also I have a huge amount of work to do. Every time I try and get to a con like this work gets in the way. Bah. We'll see how it goes.

iPhone Games

Posted Wed, 26/08/2009 - 08:09 by chris

I'm quite keen to get into writing some games for the iPhone. I started one a while back, before the game kit made networking easier. I'd like to get back on to it and rewrite it to take advantage of the new stuff. If anyone else has aspirations of a similar nature, please get in touch, maybe we can work together on some iPhone booty generating goodness.

All over the place

Posted Wed, 26/08/2009 - 08:01 by chris

Well I'm looking forward to drupalcon in Paris next week. If anyone wants to meet up to talk about drupal, UX, CiviCRM or making the world a better place using drupal, please get in touch.

I'm probably going to have to miss much of Saturday's schedule but otherwise I shall be there and firing on most cylinders. There's some pressing work I need to continue with while at the con so you may find me in the 'do some coding' parts.

I'm also looking forward to being able to take a moment to look at drupal 7 and what it has to offer, and then what I can offer it in return.

IE8 This Way and That

Posted Tue, 21/07/2009 - 12:45 by chris

With IE8 coming along to carry on muddying the waters of browsers and compatibility I thought it prudent to note here the method of getting IE8 to emulate IE7 using a meta tag. There are a few reasons for this that I won't go into here but one of the main ones is for old sites not undergoing a code overhaul.

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />

Should get IE8 to behave in the same way IE7 did and things should look as you made them do when initially designing for Microsoft's inherently flawed browsers.

Getting back to the iPhone

Posted Sat, 11/07/2009 - 08:12 by chris

I've recently bee asked to get a quote together for an iPhone app and I want to rewrite one of my earlier attempts at an app so this weekend I'm going to try and get the basics of an app together as a bit of a refresher. Wish me luck. I've been using php and actionascript for some time now so I'll need to switch modes on my head.

Back from London

Posted Mon, 29/06/2009 - 21:46 by chris

Got back late last week from London. I enjoyed the time I was there but I don't think London life is for me though. I did think that getting around was easy enough though. Loved the oyster card.

I got very warm down there. Partly because I over packed in a minor way. I took my camera and rarely used it, I packed a few warmer tops because I saw a forecast for rain and we had blistering sun instead and I took a massive book I didn't read.

Spending a couple of days in London

Posted Tue, 23/06/2009 - 08:18 by chris

Right now I'm sat in a nice little meeting room whilst doing the intros to the next couple of days' worth of CiviCRM discussions. We have people here from charities, core developers and various other orgs.

Will be tweeting things as I go through and any significant findings will be posted here or another blog post.

Give it up for the CiviCRM core team

Posted Tue, 16/06/2009 - 08:42 by chris

I had to do some big changes (or so I thought) on the contact search recently. I needed to be able to choose the fields in the results view and also display memberships. It turns out that the field chooser already exists and is little used. The next thing was the memberships which did need a bit of of hacking but generally I was impressed and managed to get it working in just a few hours. Without all the base code working so well it would have been days I reckon. Cheers.