Jake Strawn | himerus | Professional Drupal Web Development and Design

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Posted by himerus
2010-03-07 10:41

Freelance Consulting & Work in General

Well, 2010 is here, and so is March, and my blog has been pretty quiet for a while because of an insane amount of contract work that has left me with minimal time for anything outside of paid work. Drupal freelance has been VERY good to me over the last 4 months since leaving my full time employment. It was no doubt a very scary situation to be in again, but everything worked out for the best. Even the FT job that I ended up not getting that I was completely sure I wanted ended up falling apart for a reason.

Freelance Consulting/Contract work is a touchy business, and not for everyone, but for me, it really is a great way to be. What mainly attracts me to it is the ability to work from home, set my own hours, and oddly enough, make a lot more money than most full time opportunities. My days of commuting to ANY office are in the past, and while I will/am still considering FT positions that allow 100% telecommute, there's no reason for me to ever want to get out of my jammies and deal with office drama again.

Drupalcon San Fransisco

Enough of that catching up business, I wanted to talk Drupalcon! This spring, Drupalcon is in San Fran, and is going to be the largest Drupalcon ever. With already over 1500 registered attendees, this will be larger than the Drupalcon last year in Washington D.C., and is sure to probably surpass 2K atendees before the event actually gets here next month.

Drupalcon Paris was my first ever Drupalcon to actually be able to attend, and after an amazing experience there, including getting to present on the 960.gs/ninesixty theme, I knew that it would take a lot to keep me from going to each and every one after Paris.

The 2010 Agenda

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Posted by himerus
2009-12-31 10:27

personal

Well, it's come quite fast, but here is the new year & new decade just a short while away. This past year has been a crazy whirlwind for me personally and professionaly, and 2010 promises to likely continue down that same path.

2009 was a "ramping up period"

Of course I moved from my long time home in Colorado during 2009, and made my way to New England for a job that later didn't work out, but provided me 6 months of stability in a new location, a great group of new friends & associates, and a lot of great memories. 2009 also really changed both my dedication and immersion into the Drupal community. I attended D4D back in June in Boston, made it to Drupalcon Paris in September for my first Drupalcon event, and Drupalcamp Montreal following that up. I now regularly attend the Boston Drupal Users Group, and still skirt around the New Hampshire group, and always end up missing them for some reason!

2009 also ended for me as a freelancer/contractor again, and that has been the most rewarding change of all. It has brought me back to the life I enjoy leading, to being my own boss, making my own schedule, choosing what I want to work on or not, and most importantly not having to deal with higher ups that are complete douche-waffles. This last spurt of freelance work again has really reaffirmed why I worked freelance for so much of my professional career.

Overriding Field Handlers in Views with your own custom handler

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Posted by himerus
2009-12-16 17:40

The Problem

Today I ran across an issue when trying to format out some Views that were integrated with Organic Groups. I needed to format out a few things, and the one I will speak on and demonstrate here is pulling out the member count in an Organic Group. By default, when you pull that data out in a view, it creates a link to the default OG page for members inside a group. The default path for that page is: og/users/$nid/faces. I find that link horrible, ugly, and just pure nasty in a nutshell. I really don't want anything in a client facing path that references a module name or abbreviation in the path. Of course, you could use a custom path to overwrite those path(s), but that's only if you really want to also use the default view that OG provides for members.

In the project I'm working on, these links that I'm modifying point to a custom panels page with multiple views inserted that relate to the members of the group. This gives me a flexible usage so that any time the member count of the group is pulled & displayed using views, that it will render the way I want, and link where I want the user to go.

In that handler function provided by OG it's also only wrapping a link around the numeric value of the member count, but what I need is more text available to that linking the full text like 24 members.

The project I'm working on has some unique requirements in the wireframes & designs related to the groups, and so some custom work was needed. This walkthrough will show a setup in a custom module that overwrites the default field handler that views uses to render that field.

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