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Website Crashes IE8 Browser with sysfader.exe Exception
So here’s what may be a crazy new IE8 CSS bug that can be triggered under the right circumstances. At MothersClick [http://www.mothersclick.com/] we started to get a few bug reports about “my browser crashing” when viewing the site. As hard as we could try, we couldn’
RightScale & Drupal - How to Get Internal IP Address
I’m working on a new project that has a Drupal site running in the cloud–specifically Amazon AWS [http://aws.amazon.com/] with RightScale [http://www.rightscale.com/] sitting on top to manage our servers and automated scaling scripts. The advantage of RightScale is it allows us to manage
How to Save and Archive Your Geocities Account (with jQuery + Firebug)
Back in the late 1990s, Geocities [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoCities] was all the rage and free 2MB of space for hosting your website rocked. It was in 1997 that I first put my own websites online and Geocities made it very easy to host. Fast-forward 12 years and
Drupal Behavior to Fix IE6 CSS Background Image Flickering
When the new myLifetime community launched we wanted to focus on performance, and one trick was to minimize HTTP requests by using the CSS sprites technique. For a great run down of this technique and examples of other major sites using this, check out this resource on Smashing Magazine [http:
myLifetime Community Launches
Recently, the new myLifetime Community [http://community.mylifetime.com/] launched and it has been an overwhelming success. With members joining at such a fast rate, it’ll soon be surging past 100,000 registered members [http://community.mylifetime.com/community/members]. This site is separate from the main myLifetime site
Blog Redesign and Drupal "Spring Theme" Released
Almost exactly 1 year ago I redesigned this blog and today, I unveil yet another new design. This time, it’s running Drupal 6 and all that goodness. I’ve enhanced the contrast on the design quite a bit and really improved the readability on posts and comments, along with
MothersClick Acquired by Lifetime Networks
MothersClick.com [http://www.mothersclick.com/] and the rest of the ParentsClick Network [http://www.parentsclick.com/]have been acquired by Lifetime Entertainment [http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/l/story.aspx?guid=%7B764B126C-2071-4605-8222-7FA1E481B0EE%7D] . I’ve been working on this site and with Dietrich (CEO & founder) for over
Getting Drupal to Play Nice with Your CDN
Note: A better version of this patch is going into Drupal 7. View the issue/patch here [http://drupal.org/node/499156]. Getting Drupal to play nice with your CDN [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Delivery_Network] can be a bit of a hassle. You have to make sure
Creating an Alpha Pager with Views 2 and Drupal 6
UPDATE: Earl comments below [https://tedserbinski.com/drupal/creating-an-alpha-pager-with-views-2-and-drupal-6/] how this is already built in. Two different ways to achieve a similar result, each with their own pros/cons. Hats off to Earl Miles [http://www.angrydonuts.com/] and the rest the views developers [http://groups.drupal.org/views-developers] they
The Paulding Light
Last week we were in upstate Michigan and went to see the Paulding Light just outside of Watersmeet, MI. This is a mysterious phenomenon of blinking lights, that looks like a mini star.