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 […]
ShoreTel 13: Call Forwarding to Cell Phone
One of the nice features about ShoreTel is the ease of use of the ShoreTel Communicator. One feature that can be enabled is Call Fowarding. This feature can allow users to forward incoming calls directly to a phone number of their choosing such as Google Voice, a cell phone, or a home phone. ShoreTel Communicator: […]
Musings on Tableau Custom SQL connections through the JET driver
I’m en route to San Jose for some work with a new client then a weekend in Salt Lake City for a few laps on the Great White Icicle! I usually try to have some kind of grander plan for my blogs, but this one is simply designed to save you some time if you […]
Google Analytics Traffic Sources: Social Network Referrals
If you found this article via a web search, I want to preface that I am not a daily user of Google Analytics these days. I have been in the past and really enjoy geeking out over the data when I take the time to log in, but I really only dig around a couple […]
Leverage Tableau Server to create Dynamic Parameters
En route to Portland, Oregon to celebrate Chris’ 30th birthday! Another quick blog post here to walk through a technique I use often with my clients who have a Tableau Server setup. This is a great technique to really take advantage of two of Tableau’s best functionalities in a somewhat atypical manner. Parameters are a […]
Interactive 6 Nations – Week 2
Week two of the RBS 6 Nations Championship is now in the books. 3 excellent matches were scheduled over this past weekend, with the highlight expected to be the highly billed championship decider in Dublin between Ireland and England. Game Previews: The first match taking place on week 2 has the Scots hosting the Italians […]
What Woke My Computer Up? (Windows 7/8)
For the last few months, I had been plagued with an issue where my laptop would seemingly at random come out of sleep. I found no useful information in the event log, and couldn’t pin down the cause. When my laptop was in my bag, it made a nice heater – scary, and luckily I […]
Sophos UTM v9 Intrusion Prevention and Creating Exceptions
Overview Sophos’ Astaro firewall appliances and UTMs can come with a variety of configurable features, such as intrusion prevention, web security, and mail security. Some of these features, such as intrusion prevention, utilize open source technologies, such as Snort (http://www.snort.org/), an open source network intrusion prevention and detection system. The Problem After a fairly recent […]
Force10 S25/S50 Switch – Duplicated Enter over Telnet
Issue: Whenever Enter is pressed over Telnet to a Force10 S25 or S50 switch, the new line command is processed twice if the telnet session is from Windows. I recently hit an odd issue on a number of Force10 S25 switches that have been recently deployed. I’m used to using terminal applications via RS232, telnet, […]