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Tip: Turn off Firebug when using TinyMCE

I just discovered that Firebug, the indispensible web development plug-in (add-on) for FireFox, does not play well with TinyMCE, the WYSIWYG tool that can be used to provide rich text editing in text blocks on websites (including this one).

Tip: Adding Google Map API Key properly to enable GMap Views in Drupal

Yesterday during Lab Hours we went through the process of adding and configuring a GMap view in a Drupal site. We've done this before but ran into a few hurdles that we'd forgotten about. Here is the first of several tips to keep you from suffering as much as we did.

Five ways to support open source software

Yesterday, I went to the entertaining and informative Open Circuits event, held by the Twin Cities Open Circuit, a new local knowledge-sharing network working to demystify computers and information technology.  In keeping with their ten-minute-talk format, I spoke briefly about my thoughts on supporting open source.  I'll share them here.

Drupal Gallery Tutorial

Two weeks ago at the TC Drupal meeting, then again this past week at Lab Hours, the issue of using Drupal to create and maintain an image gallery came up. The general agreement amongst attendees at both gatherings was that using CCK, Imagefield, Imagecache and Views is the way to go but that no configuration of such was making everyone happy.

Advantage Labs SVN Repository Structure

The Advantage Labs, Inc. managed Drupal repository is available for public checkout and browsing.

You can browse the repository online at or you can check it out using your Subversion client of choice. To check out the SVN repostitory, point your client to:

http://svn.advantagelabs.com/managed

The managed repository has the following basic structure:

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