Coder’s Eye

I’ve been working on a Drupal module to automatically make CSS-styled drop-down menus from the built-in menuing system. That’s been going great, and I’m really enjoying Drupal’s modular architecture and theming abilities.

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Developing sites for clients involves a lot of heavy CSS work for me.

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I’m building a new Drupal 5 site for a client, and I was dreading the hack-work I was going to have to do to make it look like what the designer had come up with. There are at least five distinct page templates in the crazy thing!So, I started trying to figure out how I would handle such a beast.

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I keep needing to do this, darn it! I leave a project for a few months, possibly push it live, and then I go back to fire up the dev server but I simply cannot remember the password I used for admin during development.Why don’t I use my stupid-development-password? I don’t know, but this seems to happen with some regularity.Luckily, it is trivial to fix with a few lines at the python commandline.Deep:/opt/webapps/invisible bruce$ ./manage.py shell 20:49:14 DEBUG root: loaded from /Volumes/Shoebox/Users/bruce/.logging.invisible.conf20:49:14 DEBUG settings: DEVELOPMENT MODE20:49:14 DEBUG settings: DEVELOPMENT MODE2007-02-16 20:49:15,610 - root - DEBUG - loaded basic config20:49:15 DEBUG root: loaded basic configPython 2.5 (r25:51918, Sep 19 2006, 08:49:13) Type “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.IPython 0.7.2 — An enhanced Interactive Python.? -> Introduction to IPython’s features.%magic -> Information about IPython’s ‘magic’ % functions.help -> Python’s own help system.object? -> Details about ‘object’. ?object also works, ??

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I’m continuing to enjoy working with jQuery.

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