Funkadelic Playground Thoughts from The Shrop

Church Relevance has release its picks for the 90 top church web sites. The blog post below explains that they are based on design, usability and innovative ideas. That still sounds very subjective to me, but once you look at some of the sites in the list, there is no denying that we can all learn a good deal from these web site designs.

http://churchrelevance.com/resources/top-church-websites/

I have been a huge fan of the Lullabot podcast series at http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/. I think that Epoisode 62 is one of the best podcasts the Lullabot crew has produced.

PHP 4.4.9 was just released on August 7th, 2008. This will be the last PHP 4.4 release.

http://www.php.net/archive/2008.php#id2008-08-07-1

Even though Views1 for Drupal 5 may not be as hip today, I have been wanting to share this bit of code to allow the creation of blog type category listing from taxonomy. I haven't tested if this works with views2 and kind of doubt it will since Views2 seems to be a complete rewrite.

The results of this View can be seen in the right sidebar of my wife's blog at http://lisa.shropshires.net.

I have used MAMP for a long time, but I recently decided to build a development environment on my MacBook Pro to mirror my test and production servers. MAMP uses Apache 2.0 and I really wanted to run Apache 2.2. I also needed custom PHP for use with Oracle databases. I just want

ed to share the documentation to setup my development environment. Feel free to comment and let me know if you have any improvements.

Cornerstone is a Mac OS X SVN client. I can tell you that this app is awesome!

The interface takes a number of UI cues from iTunes by using one window. The one window interface is much more efficient on a laptop. You do have the option in preferences to switch to a multi window mode.

I Just added some block visibility code snippets to my www.snipplr.com account at http://snipplr.com/users/shrop/tags/drupal/.

I presented a brief intro to jQuery at UNC Charlotte's Web Developer's Group meeting on June 27th, 2008. If you want to check out the slides, they are linked below:

What's jQuery Presentation

I am just not a fan of drop down menus. I think they should be avoided at all cost. They don't always work in every browser and they can become a usability and accessibility issue. Jeffery Zeldman sums it up nicely: http://bobchristenson.tumblr.com/post/38016909/when-i-see-a-drop-down-me...

I am a big fan of subverison. I current use a combination of TextMate, ZigVersion and command line SVN to work with Subversion for my University development at UNC Charlotte.