CodeBreaker

Posted December 21, 2009 - 01:24

CodeBreaker is a MasterMind(tm) clone. I decided to program this on a lazy Sunday afternoon. I was tired of the lack of configuration of the gnome-mastermind client (which I love, nevertheless), and my knowledge of GTK is limited to less than nothing, so I programmed this one to allow the user to configure the number of holes, the number of colors, how many turns the user has, and if you want to repeat colors in the code or not.

As it stands, it has no real colors. It's all represented by numbers using drop-down boxes. All through Drupal's Form API. Maybe some other lazy Sunday afternoon I'll program a nicer jQuery interface.

You can play it here: http://www.vkareh.net/codebreaker

Drupal Training - Beginner Level

Posted November 4, 2009 - 00:08

Apart from the Ann Arbor Drupal User Group, in which we meet every month to discuss all things Drupal, we've been wanting actual Drupal training for a while. Whether it is a class, a seminar, DrupalCamp, or the official DrupalCon, there's always something new to learn.

Weeks ago I learned of a Drupal workshop in town organized by one of our very own A2DUG members, Jim.

I could not attend the first session, last Wednesday, due to being out of town, so I don't know what happened. The deal is that the person that was going to teach will no longer teach. Jim then called me to see if I was available to teach the workshop. My experience with teaching and training has been limited to teaching my clients and co-workers how to use the websites I make for them.

My name on Date.module!

Posted September 21, 2009 - 14:22

I was checking my Drupal issue queue and saw an update to an issue on which I gave a possible solution around 3 months ago. It was marked as fixed by the the maintainer, KarenS, known to pretty much everyone in the active Drupal community for her Date and Calendar modules. So, my solution actually made it to the official release!

I can only think about how efficient open source software development is, that I found the solution to an error due to it affecting me in the first place. If it were closed source, how long would it have taken the developers to find the error without feedback from the community? And how long would the users be stuck with the error without being able to do anything about it?

Funny thing, though, I always read the release notes before updating a module on all the websites I administer, but somehow my own name escaped me in this case. :P

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