I started to revive urlgreyhot for occasional blogging. I've discovered in the past few months that although I primarily have posts to share on UX, there is still the occasional post that is of topic for Konigi, so I'm now posting again here to discuss working with Drupal once again.
I started reading Travis Tidwell's Flash with Drupal book this month to learn what I can about delivering content from Drupal Views into Flash and will post a short summary in a few days. Packt makes the introduction and Chapter 10 on User Management available as a free download for anyone who wants a taste. What I've been most interested in the past are really modest solutions to things, e.g. creating interactive blocks or widgets of content that I can put in a sidebar. But, my skimming of the book has also gotten me interested in how to deliver more complete Flash widgets in larger portions of the page, e.g. creating dynamically rendered visualizations of content using stats from views and ratings.
Will be posting more as I make it through.
Here you go, Fred. My combination of the Evernote and del.icio.us bookmarklets for Firefox/Safari/Chrome, made for nerds that want to save to both. I just combined the two, separated by a semicolon.
Firefox
Drag the link below to your Firefox bookmarks bar.
Safari
Drag the link below to your Safari bookmarks bar.
Chrome
Drag the link below to your Chrome bookmarks bar.
Based on demand to use the wireframe icons on web sites, and to use them in Adobe Illustrator and Visio, I've created EPS and PNG versions that include a Royalty Free license agreement. You may use them in your UX documents, but the license also permits you to use them in web sites.
There are restrictions for use on commercial products or commercial applications that offer products
or services for sale or for fee-based usage, however. For details on the license and prohibited uses, please see the Royalty Free License Agreement.
ToneMatrix is a simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute.
Love this idea at City Bag Trade. Downloadable pattern to sew a bag from recycled fabric. Old Nylon jackets work well apparently. You can also send a jacket in to be converted into a bag.
WebEnabled looks like an interesting software sales/services platform. Developers can build pre-built applications and servers. One example might be an open source CMS configured for a specific industry with a suite of associated plugins to support the functionalities required by its use case. I'm thinking this is something like an installer profile with the developer's own code bundled in. Developers can then sell clones of their applications, consulting services, and ongoing support to customers. Customers can buy and host the application anywhere they like.
You have to hand it to TED for bringing together some of the most amazing speakers in the world. Jill Bolte Taylor is one of those people. She got a research opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: She had a massive stroke, and watched as her brain functions -- motion, speech, self-awareness -- shut down one by one. In this inspiring talk, "My stroke of insight," she speaks of the revelations in the moments of both confusion and clarity during her stroke.
You have to watch the whole thing to get to this final point... (watch first)
I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be. And I thought that was an idea worth spreading.
Awesome stuff.