An occasional thought

A sadly infrequent take on WordPress, WooCommerce, AI, and the web.

August 24, 2017
As forcing HTTPS on sites becomes more and more important, I wanted to document the process in Drupal 7 for myself (and anyone else who might find it helpful!).
January 26, 2015
A few weeks ago, I launched a new utility called DrupalVersion.com. It has one simple purpose: find out if your sites are up to date with the latest version of Drupal (6 or 7).
January 4, 2015
Last year around this time I posted an article here that wrapped up 2013 and set some goals for 2014. The slate has once again been wiped clean for the new year, but now’s as good of a time as any to reflect on the past year and set new goals for the coming one.
February 12, 2014
As a site developer for a web development agency, I often have the need to send clients pieces of content (pages, blog posts, team bios, etc) for review. These are pieces that cannot yet be live in the site, so they need to remain unpublished and be reviewed. Sending links to clients with a login string in the URL is a great way to speed up the process, but I had to write a module to iron out the wrinkles for our clients.
February 2, 2014
Lately, I’ve been trying to take a look at how I develop forms. Fields need to be validated and it’s always better for the user to be notified on the spot. But what if we can format the users’ fields for them as they fill them out? Then we can avoid possible form – or worse, shopping cart – abandonment.
January 26, 2014
So it all started when I was looking for a weather widget for a client’s website. After looking at what felt like 300 old, dated, gross weather widgets, I finally found one that is pretty nice. Scratch that, this one is beautiful. I was able to set the city name, latitude, longitude, and color for the temperature bars, but I thought “What if they could let someone (me) provide their (my) own CSS file in the URL?” So I set out to develop my concept.