Enhanced Security in Tableau 8 – Applying User Filters to Data Sources
This week I had the pleasure of speaking in Boston at EACUBO with a friend and business associate, Ted Curran (Executive Director of Finance at Carnegie Mellon University). EACUBO aims to promote high-quality, professional development opportunities to higher education officers. This, year Ted and I had the opportunity to share how data analytics helped transformed […]
Unboxing Drupal 8: Forms and Views (part 3 of 3)
Earlier this week, we looked at changes in content editing for nodes and blocks. Today we’ll be looking at the implementation of forms and views modules in the core of Drupal 8 as well as drawing some overall conclusions. Built-in Contact Form The ‘Structure’ page contained another item that really caught my attention: Contact form. My […]
Running a Jekyll Blog Using Github Pages on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
In my last post I described installing Ruby on Mac OS X with RVM. The main reason I wanted to do this was to run a Jekyll Blog using GitHub Pages. So, in this post I will guide you through the process to get a GitHub Pages Blog up and going. 1. Installing Python and […]
Unboxing Drupal 8: Content Editing Versus Drupal 7 (part 2 of 3)
Last week we started looking at the visual changes for the development release of Drupal 8. Today, I continue to investigate the differences, particularly in regards to editing content. Improvements to the Node Edit Form After glancing around briefly for part 1 of this post, I decided that my test site needed some sample content. I created […]
Unboxing Drupal 8: An Initial Comparison to Drupal 7 (part 1 of 3: The First Glance)
I was sitting at home recently thinking “I wonder how life is going to change when Drupal 8 is released for production websites”. So when I arrived at the office the following morning, I was determined to investigate that question. I cut my teeth on Drupal development with version 6, and since then I’ve developed […]
Installing Ruby 2.0.0 with RVM and Homebrew on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
This is a tutorial on how to install Ruby 2.0.0 on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. 1. Install Xcode and the Command Line Tools If you don’t have it installed I suggest you install Xcode from the Mac App Store and install the command line tools in Xcode Preferences -> Downloads. Otherwise if you […]
Drupal 7 and Omega – Part 2: Delta and Context modules
Let’s extend the flexibility of the Omega theme. With only a few clicks, you can add and remove regions from specific pages throughout your site. Think of it as creating custom theme tpl.php files without writing any code. Using the Delta module (http://drupal.org/project/delta) along with the Context module (http://drupal.org/project/context), you can assign page-specific layouts using […]
InterWorks Joins Tableau on Tableau 8 Tour
InterWorks will join Tableau Software on the nationwide Tableau 8 Tour to promote the newest release of Tableau. InterWorks Inc in the US will be sponsoring the US tour dates, and InterWorks Europe will be sponsoring the Manchester and London dates. The coast-to-coast, 42-stop tour will hit most major U.S. cities, beginning March 5 in […]
Quick Tutorial on Overriding Drupal Views using Templates
Scott and I were recently invited to Oklahoma State University to provide Drupal training for their web admins. Drupal has been on the main campus for a couple of months now and is creeping its way onto the extension campuses. Web admins from each campus – Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Muskogee – and every department […]
Getting Started with Omega and Drupal 7
There are several new Drupal theme toolboxes available that now allow easy-to-setup responsive and adaptive layouts. As of this publishing, Omega allows the most power for a newcomer to Drupal and theming without adding additional front-end styling that comes with a contributed theme or template. The Omega UI allows a developer to easily customize the […]