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If you're a frequenter of the site you may have noticed some changes lately. Yes, it's finally happened! In an effort to make our site more useful and just generally nicer, we actually worked on it

There's still a lot left to do, but over time we hope to showcase all our work here. Not just the sites, but modules and themes as well. We are also working hard on organizing our notes and documentation too, so check back soon and if you have any comments, let's hear them...

[Update: apparently Robin no longer works at Apple, but I CCd Steve too. I wonder if they'll get "or others higher" as a joke?]

Dear Robin,

Thank you for your caring responses and help just over two years ago. You may remember from that previous communication (attached) that if it were not for third-party service, I would be an angry ex-Apple customer, rather than typing this on a new MacBook that replaced my iBook.

Please bring to my letter here to the attention of Steve Jobs (or others higher, if you can).

Tip from the excellent, simple http://www.opensourcemac.org/

The Unarchiver

Uncompress RAR, 7zip, tar, and bz2 files on your Mac. Many new Mac users will be puzzled the first time they download a RAR file. Do them a favor and download UnRarX for them!

Resolution

http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html

Live from the Interactive Media Conference in Las Vegas, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's News Challenge announcements looked a little like the Drupal show. It may not be millions of dollars, but millions more people are likely to be using new local, cutting edge community news Drupal sites within a couple years.

Among the winners:

can you help me make node relativity not show the children list below the node like that?

Go to administer settings or whatever Node Relativity and click on the Display Settings tab, and change the section from a number (weight) to zero - 0 - which means don't display.

Resolution

Moving this tip over from where I posted it at Lullabot in their 50 tiips thread.

Specifically, put this in the custom argument code:

<?php
drupal_set_message('<pre>' . print_r($view, TRUE) . '</pre>');
?>

(PHP tags used for formatting here and are not entered into the argument code textbox.

To do this on a live site without regular folks seeing, while you're online as user #1, you can use this:

cvs -z6 -d:pserver:agaric@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -d term_message contributions/modules/term_message

This was a module with a dead head, so I also had to do this (I could have put the -r DRUPAL-5 into the above command immediately after the checkout).

Ebony-II:term_message ben$ cvs update -dP -r DRUPAL-5
cvs update: Updating .
U term_message.info
U term_message.install
U term_message.module

Related: If you're in California's bay area, don't miss Drupal Day on Friday May 3, a special open session of NewsTools2008's mixing up journalists, technologists, entrepreneurs.

Journalism's charge is to increase the signal to noise ratio.

Because skilled web developers set it up that way.

You'll be able to go create content --> add sponsor and just type in their company name, select their sponsorship level from a drop down list, upload their company logo and type in a description of the company as well. The sponsors will automatically appear on the sponsor page according to sponsorship level, and the top 6 sponsors will show in the block on the bottom of the page with their logo.

Resolution

I changed the mysql root password through phpMyAdmin... and promptly lost the connection– no! The password also has to be changed in MAMP's phpMyAdmin configuration file.

vi /Applications/MAMP/bin/phpMyAdmin/config.inc.php

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'changedpass'; // MySQL password (only needed