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Sean and Laura are getting married!

jrb — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:59:00 +0000

Sean and Laura are getting married next month!!!

For those of you who don't know, Sean took a gap year after graduating high school to travel Europe. He met Laura (who's from Spain) in Galway, Ireland. They're living in Vilanova i la Geltru outside of Barcelona.

And, Laura's an artist. That's her artwork on the announcement!

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Trip to Maine - Sunrise on Cadillac Mountain

jrb — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:28:22 +0000

On our last day in Acadia, Daniel and I got up at 4:00 in the morning to go see the sunrise from the top of Cadillac Mountain. It's the highest / easternmost point in America, so we were the first people in the United States to see the sun rise that morning. Along with the hundred other people that were there, that is.

Daniel took these pictures (except for the one with him in it).

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Trip to Maine - Kayaking

jrb — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:16:40 +0000

We went on a kayaking tour around Southwest Harbor. We paddled about 6 1/2 miles.

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Trip to Maine - Cadillac Mountain Hike

jrb — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:09:44 +0000

We all hiked from our camp site at the Blackwoods camp ground to the top of Cadillac Mountain and back on the South Ridge Trail (about 8 miles). Daniel took a bunch of pictures.

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How to fix "Call to undefined function phptemplate_get_ie_styles()" error when running Drupal's update.php

jrb — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:35:24 +0000

When running the update script on a new a new installation of Drupal version 6.20, I was getting this:

 Fatal error: Call to undefined function phptemplate_get_ie_styles() in htdocs/themes/garland/maintenance-page.tpl.php on line 23

The problem turned out be that the .info file was missing for the Minnelli theme, and that's the default theme for the maintenance page. I'm not sure how it went missing, but I just copied minnelli.info from a different Drupal installation into the themes/garland/minnelli/ directory and all was well.

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How to keep Drupal from caching a page

jrb — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:44:20 +0000

I ran across a problem on a site today where some custom voting code had stopped working correctly. Eventually, I figured out that the actual problem was due to the page being cached, so it wasn't showing the updated results. I didn't want to turn off caching so, my next step was to figure out how to turn caching off for a particular page. The Google found CacheExclude, a module that allows you to do just that-- turn caching off for specific pages.

That module did the job, but I wanted to know exactly how it worked. Looking at the source, the "magic" was basically a single line:

$GLOBALS['conf']['cache'] = false;

In my case, the pages in question were created by custom code, so I just added that line to my code rather than adding another module. That will prevent Drupal from caching the page.

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Computer under the stairs

jrb — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:09:55 +0000

Karen and I (yes, mostly Karen) finished a built-in bench and computer desk in the space under the stairs. The bench is hinged to create a storage area underneath.

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Hiking on Harper Creek

jrb — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:32:08 +0000

For Karen's birthday (coming up on Thursday), we took the boys and went hiking on some trails around Harper Creek in the Wilson Creek area. We did about 6 miles, and it was a blast. The trail included a bunch of creek crossings and Sean and Daniel had a great time looking for and catching crawfish, salamanders, and newts. I caught a Northern Water Snake at the falls.

Along the way, we found some natural water slides that Daniel and Alec wanted to try. Karen and I checked out the landing area and figured that no one would die (probably) and let them loose. They did fine up until Daniel's final run when he caught some air, overshot the pool he was going to land in, and hit the big rocks on the far side. He did survive, though. Check out the video.

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A fix for Drupal form error messages not showing up

jrb — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:07:36 +0000

I was having a problem with using the Login block form on the home page. Error messages related to the login (e.g. "Password incorrect.", etc.) were not getting dispalyed when the login failed. They would show up only after reloading the page again.

In my template, I had this:

<div class="content"> <?php print drupal_get_form('user_login_block'); ?> </div>

What I figured out was that the error messages weren't actually being generated until after the call to drupal_get_form() was made. Because this call was inside the template, they were not set for the template to display.

The fix for this is to create a function to make the call to drupal_get_form() and grab the resulting error messages (if any). So, in a module or in template.php, you need to create a function like this:

function THEMENAME_get_login_block() { $form = drupal_get_form('user_login_block'); return theme_status_messages().$form; }

Then, in your template, do this instead:

<div class="content"> <?php print THEMENAME_get_login_block() ;?> </div>

This makes sure that the error messages are set before the form and the mesages themselves are displayed.

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More Firefox Finger Swipes

jrb — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:22:59 +0000

Some more Firefox finger swipes on the Mac:

Three-finger swipe up: Home key (top of the page)
Three-finger swipe down: End key (bottom of the page)
Three-finger swipe left: Browse back
Three-finger swipe right: Browse forward

You may need to go into about:config to set. I didn't...

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