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Drupal Tip - what modules I have installed and why
December 23, 2009

drupal is a great CMS. there are hundreds of third party modules - code that extends functionality that you can install. however, finding the modules you need can be daunting. many claim to do similar things, so which should you install? key factors are:

  • is it available for the major version of drupal you are using? do you have 6.x installed but it is only available for 5.x?
  • usage - the more used a module, the more chance for future releases and bug patches or feature...

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Drupal Tip - seo part 1 - eliminate duplicate content
December 21, 2009

part of basic seo is having no duplicate content on your site. the major search engines - google, yahoo, ask and bing will penalize you heavily for it. in addition to real duplicate content, there is the issue of pseudo duplicates caused by a singular node having multiple urls that you can access it by. by default a drupal installation is littered with multiple copies of each page.

when url aliases are enabled, you may have eight versions of the page. for instance if node/4 has the alias '...

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OpenGL Tutorial #0 - setting up netbeans and jogl
December 16, 2009

Synopsis: In this basic tutorial, we will be setting up the netbeans environment to make use of the JOGL netbeans package.
Tech Blog Item - if i was a tech/program manager...
December 15, 2009

part 1: hiring and training

screen out before hiring. enthusiasm is good, but only goes so far. especially in technical matters. training makes people better, but takes time.

i would rather have three to five highly skilled (and well paid ; ) coworkers/employees then twenty newbies, underskilled workers, or 'yes man' drones.

have an incentive for seasoned, top employees to stay on - yes they cost more then someone fresh out of school, but make up for it in pretty much...

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Tech Blog Item - more productive browsing
December 15, 2009

one problem I encountered was having TOO many bookmarks. way too many. over 1400. yes, many were good sites or articles. the problem is that they have not been used in ages. for instance I had bookmarks on a dozen programming languages but have only been using a few of them in the last couple of years. there were dead links, and duplicates - I knew, but didn't want to check each by hand.

so I set out to simplify my life. first, I am using two great firefox plugins - xmarks and checkplaces....

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Tech Blog Item - NetBeans OpenGL Pack
December 10, 2009

There is the Java Open GL or JOGL, a version of OpenGL for Java. Furthermore, there is a 'Netbeans OpenGL Pack' which is fantastic news to me since I made the switch to Netbeans. Straight from the Netbeans OpenGL pack logoproject website comes this description:

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