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This website is composed of information connected through taxonomy. It is simultaneously a proof-of-concept and a means to allow Agaric to share and store information both within the collective and the world as part of our open documentation philosophy.

Building Beauty presentation documentation and links

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 15, 2011 - 11:40pm
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The Site

  • http://daniel-libeskind.com/
  • Horizontal continuum for all sections
  • Press request and access functionality with Organic Groups
  • Complex, structured project content type
  • News, press releases, etc.
  • Events listing
  • About Daniel Libeskind section, including sub-project listing with galleries
  • Project, one-by-one galleries
  • PDF Generator
  • Mobile version ...including for BlackBerry

Potential ways to easily scroll horizontally

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 10, 2011 - 7:56am

A related thought: If we static position to the screen our header and footer, instead of the div scrolling the whole page scrolls, which might be easier.

Possible libraries:

Incremental improvements make Drupal's code awesome

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 2, 2011 - 3:24pm
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A fix was recently committed to both Drupal 8 and Drupal 7 to use #attached for block_admin_display_form() instead of drupal_add_css(). It only came up in my "Your issues" block on my drupal.org dashboard because, it turned out, i was the one who had initially complained about it. And that's all i did- looking for core examples to tell readers of dgd7.org how to write good code, i noticed core was in fact doing it wrong.

Notes and links on hacking in a custom active state path for menu links

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 2, 2011 - 10:57am
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<?php
function feature_frontend_preprocess_links(&$variables) {
  kpr($variables);
}
?>

Preventing Agile Scrum methodology from degrading code quality

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 2, 2011 - 9:47am
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"practical advice for avoiding [delivering broken software with Scrum] – whether you’re an Organizer or you’re an Activist Developer"

The key problem identified is that incentive to abandon code quality to meet time/budget and feature goals.

The solution is to, first, not allow tests, in code, automated, or human, and other issues of code quality to be cut off from the features that are being built. Hide the time in the task estimates if absolutely necessary.

But also:

Simplify Drupal by Building Core Features with Building Blocks

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 2, 2011 - 9:29am
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It takes a very long (and enlightening and entertaining and informative) article to get there, but Jeff Eaton makes the key point which i think we all know in Drupal but can have trouble expressing. This is the key big picture for very many of our Drupal 8 initiatives:

More executable paths through code correlates with higher likelihood of bugs

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 1, 2011 - 11:27pm
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The McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity metric (which counts the number of different executable paths through a module) proves to be an excellent measure of code quality. The more paths through a program, the more complicated it is, and the more bugs the program is likely to have.

http://www.enerjy.com/blog/?p=198