Bytes in the Margin

Both of the lifestreaming projects discussed in this Ars article are both built using PHP frameworks, one Zend and the other is CodeIgniter.  I was pleasantly surprised, I expected them to be Python or Rails projects.

If you're looking to build your own style plugins for Drupal's Panels module, the following post will step you through how to do so. The functions and files you'll need to declare are a bit arcane and this beats stepping through the panels code yourself.  I've found the rounded corners plugin that ships with panels is ...

Please ignore this post, which makes the utterly ridiculous recommendation that customers should care about what tools developers use in their work.  Programming is such an individualized task that what works for one person will not necessarily work for someone else.  

The FeedAPi module is a nice little workhorse module that can create nodes out of item from an RSS or Atom feed.  Couple it with the Views module, you have a very low effort aggregation solution.  But since FeedAPI creates a node for each item, Views will link to the node on your own site when ...

I originally posted this as a comment on Keith Casey's post about Software Development Failures.  I've tried to expand my thoughts a bit here.