Blog

As well as my blog, which contains most of my newer writing, this is also an archive of (most) of my older print based music writing, general reviews, creative writing, opinion pieces and much more.

It's likely to be somewhat ramshackle and I'll tidy it up over time, but enjoy in the interim!

My New housemate

He must works nights as I rarely see him, we’ve never spent a night together, just watching TV or anything like that, but he must have a set in his room, and a penchant for cheesy old horror films, because sometimes in the middle of the night I hear odd muffled shrieks and yells coming from his room.

Price on Application with Ubercart 3 and Views

Submitted by ChrisChinchilla on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 22:35

A few weeks back I needed to create an ability for certain products in Ubercart to be available for 'price on application', there were a few modules floating around that pertained to do this, but none seemed to work in Drupal 7, so I racked my brain on how to accomplish this as simply as possible and came up with something quite tidy…

I created a field on the product content type where content editors could enter the text to be displayed instead of a price, in my case, called 'field_price_on_application'.

Featurefull vs Usable

I've been having some thoughts recently on the paths that many open source projects seem to follow and who they are really designed for, the developer or the users?

As always, this is work in progress and I'd be happy to maybe do a presentation on this at some point…

Do we focus too much on cramming features into open source projects, instead of paying attention to making our products/projects something that people will genuinely want to use and enjoy using?

Nexus 4 – The Android iPhone and that's ok

I decided to upgrade my Samsung S2 to a Nexus 4, there were several reasons for this…

Talking at Web Directions Code

I am honoured, happy and excited to have been asked to speak at a Web Directions event, Web Directions Code, here in Melbourne on the 2nd and 3rd of May.I am talking on how to debug and test your mobile web apps, somehow squeezing all I know into 15 minutes, it's going to be fun!

How long did that website really take to make?

That snazzy website your looking at took a while to make didn't it? What do you reckon? Maybe it took the developers a few months to make. Perhaps its taken them a few years of iterative development to create and perfect something more complex.

But what about everything else you're using, ever given any thought on how long they all took to make?

Talking CiviCRM at Joomla!Day Melbourne, 20th Jan

Completing the tricefta of talking about CiviCRM at every user group for every platform it's available on in Melbourne, I'm talking about CiviCRM and Joomla! at this weekend's Joomla!Day.

it will be a brief features overview on CiviCRM and how it integrates with Joomla!. I'm talking on the 20th of January at 10am. See you there!