the life and times of emijayne

At work we have multiple servers, mostly Windows, but a few ‘nix boxes.. the main ‘nix box I tend to use is running our Intranet. The problem I am having now is the need to set up links on the Intranet to documents on a Windows server.

Oh.. and while I’m on the subject, there is this great set of Power Toys that integrate nicely with Windows.  Granted, some or all of these things have most likely become a part of Vista and Win7, but for those of us still behind the times, they make life a little easier. The one I [...]

This Bulk Rename Utility for Windows is just.. pure awesomeness.  I had about 25 albums of pictures that needed to be renamed before uploading to our photo gallery at work.  Once I decided on a format that I wanted to use.. it took me only about 30 minutes to go through them all.. well.. minus [...]

I have around 10 drupal installations for various work projects.  I love them.  Drupal *is* the awesomeness. As awesome as Drupal is, using a WYSIWYG editing module makes life so much easier for posts and pages.  My choice is fckeditor.  It has everything I need and could want.. it has the perfect auto exceptions (for putting limited or [...]

Months ago, I wrote this way-too-complicated Views set of blocks so that the child menu items would appear beneath the text of the parent page.  It was ridiculous.. I had like 15 blocks and I hadn’t even finished entering in new pages yet. Today I decided that I would make another push at getting this [...]

I gotta say that I love this combo.  Drupal is in myshort list of programs to use for developing sites.  Zen is seriously the best starting place for theming.. without having to start from scratch. Today’s playtoy: Drupal 6.12 MySQL 5.0.45 PHP 5.1.6 Zen Theme 6.x-1.0 Meta Tags Module Nice Menus Module DHTML Menu Module [...]