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Reports for drupal

Posted Sun, 20/09/2009 - 11:08 by chris

I've been trying to find a reporting module that does what I need but it seems I'm going to have to write one myself. I shall be trying out the charts module for the first time too. It's in alpha still but it's worth a shot for now. I'll be displaying tables anyway so it's a bonus to have the graphs.

Wondering if there are any other modules I could use. Also I have been thinking about how to make the processing faster. Ideally I'd run the reports on cron and display the results from the cache. Not settled on a method yet though.

Dries Keynote - Drupalcon Paris 2009

Posted Wed, 02/09/2009 - 07:30 by chris

Session now over. Please click read more to get to the live blog.

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.

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.

New site up and running

Posted Sat, 30/05/2009 - 19:22 by chris

I finally can say that the biggest, most complicated site I have ever worked on has gone live. It's not finished but nothing ever seems to be. It's a great feeling after about 6 months solid development time. I have a lot of people to thank, especially Donald Lobo from CiviCRM.

It's been a long job but I'm sure it'll be worth it. I've written a little bit about what I did over at civicrm.org for those that are interested here http://civicrm.org/node/573

I guess now all I need to do is wait for feedback and try and get the remainder done.

Thanks all,
Chris

Using FCKeditor and Image Assist from Drupal

Posted Wed, 13/05/2009 - 21:58 by chris

Firstly, congratulations all the book sprinters. You did well. I'll be having a good read of it this weekend.

Before I delve into some code I'd like to give you my motivation for doing what I'm about to describe.

I need image uploading, ease of use and consistency. I also don't want to bother with maintaining 2 versions of fckeditor. I knew it shouldn't be too hard to get it working across to 2 systems and to be honest it wasn't. It took a little more to find out what the Image assist module needed though.

A nice feature of fckeditor is that we get a nice button in the editor toolbar instead of the link below the textarea as it would normally be. To get fckeditor and image assist working in drupal together you will need to copy img_assist_fckeditor.js from fckeditor module folder into img_assist folder. If you get a white empty popup screen then you have missed this step out.

On to some actual coding. Please make sure your drupal modules are all working before trying this for your own sanity's sake.

CiviCRM with Drupal

Posted Fri, 27/03/2009 - 08:54 by chris

Various aspects of integrating drupal with CiviCRM on a real life project. I'm getting more and more involved with the development of Civi so I may need to post a few links to pages on civicrm.org. Please bear with me as things develop.

Breaking the back of it

Posted Thu, 12/03/2009 - 20:33 by chris

I'm not sure I can remember back as far as the beginning of this project but up ahead I do see a glimmer of a hint of a finishing post.

I've had a bit of a steep learning curve but I think I've managed to get a grasp of how civicrm ticks. The next step is moulding it to my will; most of which is done.