I'm back at Uni now, and I've started to work on bits for the site that got me into Drupal, WarwickMaths.org. It needs some tweaking so that users can find the different sections more easily. I'm thinking of some kind of ajax tabbed interface on the front page, or at least a supplementary side menu.
I've also taken on the Embed Filter which allows you to put <embed> tags in Drupal posts. We'll see how this one works out, but I'm just trying to get a handle on the issue queue at the moment.
I've only got three weeks until I have to go back to university, and so I've only got three weeks left being a freelancer, at least for this 'summer'. Sad times. It's been really good fun, and I'm going to miss it.
I the unlikely event that someone reads this post, is a web developer, and hasn't heard of Firebug, you need to keep going...
FireBug is the ultamate developer extension for firefox. It essentially allows you to walk the DOM tree in a nice way. But when I say nice way, I mean very nice way. It's just utterly cool. I find new features and find I can do new things with it everyday. I can't imagine doing CSS, javascript or web development without it.
I thought that trying to keep up with Drupal development was bad. Constantly changing APIs, functions parameters reordered, but at least that was once or twice a year. Facebook is even worse!
I've recently written a facebook app, ShiftBuddies, for the company I work for, Computerminds, we had some nice functionality that would show different content on a user's profile block depending on whether you were the profile's owner, or a visitor.
As part of my work for computerminds, we've just launched a facebook app called ShiftBuddies
You can add in when you're days off are, and so can your friends, then you can compare and see who is free when.
Awesome.
This week I've started working for a company called ComputerMinds in Bristol.
It's been really awesome so far. I've been looking at a site that has got some heavy video integration, and I've been adding some CCK stuff. CCK really is a nightmare sometimes, and actually makes life hard! It took me ages to work out how to pragmatically insert data into CCK fields. Also, it turns out I'm not going to want a nodereference field that is aware of node revisions, so I'm going to have to tinker with that widget some more!
My studies are over for another year, so I'm available to work on Drupal sites over the summer (until September.)
If you want to get your site Drupalised or tune your existing Drupal site, contact me
I while ago I found a drupal module that could index attachments made to posts. So you could search for them using the built-in Drupal engine, however, it's not well maintained and lacks features.
I've decided to branch the module, and work on my own code, make it much more user friendly and usable. Features I plan to add are:
The new home of the Warwick Mathematics Society has been launched by aella at warwickmaths.org
The site represents a considerable number of hours of development time, and is still under active development by aella.
Keep watching the work pages for some of the modules used on that site to appear for free download.
If you are a society from the University of Warwick, and would like a similar site, please feel free to contact me
