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Crowdsourcing and the Cambrian House

Cambrian HouseAs a member of the Cambrian House (CH)—although not an extremely active one—I've found it to be quite an intriguing idea/concept. Without going to into detail about it, CH members submit ideas to the community and the community fleshes it out and decides if they think it is viable. If it is CH does whatever possible to provide the project with funding to make it a reality.

Drupal 6.3 and 5.8 - maintenance and security

Well I'm about 9 days late on this so most of you have all ready updated your site to the latest 6.3 and 5.8 releases. If you haven't I suggest you do so as soon as possible so you can keep things secure. With that said however, I haven't exactly practiced what I'm preaching. This site and the rest of my Drupal 6 sites have all been udpated to 6.3 from the obvious 6.2. Although this was much easier as they are all being run from the same install-base.

I am not just a ni(twit)

Okay, okay, you caught me. As you can probably tell, I've been slacking. I haven't setup the wiki yet. Matter of fact I haven't even started it. I have however decided to take the "plunge" and sign up for a Twitter account. A tech-friend finally convinced me to do so, since it is a good way to keep current on some of the latest techno-news.

Organization through Wiki

Well, I have finally come to realize that I need to setup a personal wiki. As I mentioned in some earlier blog posts, I wanted this site to be more than just information about me. I want it to be information FOR me; and for anyone else who may need some answers to various/numerous web questions.

As some of you have noticed, I recently posted a few code snippets to help with some common tasks. However, Drupal doesn't seem to want cooperate with displaying the snippets properly. Also, doing it this way makes it a bit to cumbersome to keep track of these snippets. Instead I've turned to the

Rotating banner using JavaScript

Currently at work we are using an Adobe Flash® for an ad rotator to show different promotions to our customers. Due to recent issues we are trying to come up with a way to improve the process to make updating it, as easy as possible. Not being a flash guy, I decided to venture out to find a solution using JavaScript. After a quick Google® search nothing peaked my interest, so I decided to try and write the solution from scratch.