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Programming

• Drupal, Programming

  Full Menu Tree with Active Trail in Drupal 6

  04.27.09 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  One of the issues I wrestled with in building websites with Drupal was how difficult it seemed to access the entire menu tree in your page template. There are several modules available that people use to “solve” this issue, but at the cost of overcomplexity and one specific feature: knowing which menu item is active [...]

• Drupal, Programming

  Making MenuTrails Work with Views 2 in Drupal 6.x

  04.21.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Want to make your breadcrumbs work properly when using a Views page and Menu Trails? The following worked for me.
  First, the good part: in modules/menutrails/menutrails.module add the following function:

  /**
  * Implementation of hook_views_pre_view()
  *
  * This will be invoked on every view request before the view is
  * themed, even if the view is cached
  [...]

• DIY, Multi-touch, Programming, Research, User Interfaces

  Tomato Touch

  10.14.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This is sooo cool. Check it out here: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/151274.asp

• Programming, Research

  Inventing the Wheel of Search

  02.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This morning when I woke up I noticed it was still very early, so I stayed in bed a little longer and thought through some of the challenges I face in my current projects.
  One such problem is high speed string-matching, or more simply put, checking if a piece of text in one list is also [...]

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