savan thongvanh

@tonybibbs (blog) recently tweeted asking what are three common problems in IT jobs that suck? From the perspective of an architect from a top Fortune company, here's my list:

• working on huge platforms in stagnant technology (does that count as two?)
• getting stuck on projects for a long time that you don't like or grow tired of
• dealing with the demeanor of "lifers"

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First steps to ramping up on Drupal.

1. Set up a site.
2. Add all relevant blogs to Bloglines
3. Listen to back podcasts & blog entries from Lullabot and Dries
4. Start contributing to a module

I'm trying to decide now which module to contribute to. I think it's going to be an easy one, possibly fixing the compatibility issue w/ the Blogroll module.

It should be a fun adventure!

Here's a quick snippet for detecting the major mobile cilents:

<?php
$isIphone=strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'iPhone');
$isRIM=strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'BlackBerry');
$isCE=strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],'Windows CE');

$isNotIphone=(false==$isIphone);
$isNotRIM=(false==$isRIM);
$isNotCE=(false==$isCE);

$isFullBrowser = ($isNotIphone && $isNotRIM && $isNotCE);
?>

So today I stood up another Drupal site. It's been a while since I'd done so. Everything was still pretty straight forward but I do want to note one thing.

I ignorantly disabled the login block. Ignorantly, not unknowingly or unwittingly, intentionally disabled it because I'm the only on that's going to be updating the site. The idea was to discourage people to attempt to sign up for a Drupal account. Great idea, I'll just disable the login block. Done!