Adding Social Media Sharing to Your Drupal Content
The title of this post should be “Adding Social Media Sharing to Your Content” as the service we’re going to look at is not only for Drupal, but Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Joomla, TypePad, Posterous, Flash, the iOS or Android SDKs, an email newsletter or just a static site. AddThis is “the world’s largest sharing and […]
5 Developer Tips for Making Drupal Administration Easier for Your End User
A majority of the work for a Drupal site goes into theming the public facing side. Website usability has been drilled into our heads for years, so we tend to be very mindful of how navigation works, what colors are used, and how graphics are placed. One thing that tends to get overlooked, however, is […]
Episode 1: Introduction to Drupal – Install MAMP/WAMP, Drupal 7, and Setup a Sub-theme
This is the first episode of several to come over the following weeks. I thought this would be a good chance to break that barrier of entry for many of you wanting to get your hands dirty with Drupal. In this episode we setup a testing environment which will allow you install Drupal on your […]
Non-Traditional Data Sources in Tableau
Tableau gives us a lot of ways to connect to data. We can easily connect to Excel, Access, SQL Server, Oracle … the list goes on and on. One place that’s not in that list is email. We get a lot of data that’s been copied from some data source somewhere and pasted into email. […]
Creating a custom form page in Drupal 6 with a module
Webforms are great when you want to make a quick and useful form in Drupal. However, sometimes we may want a little more control over that form or need to run some custom PHP code when the form is submitted. Keep in mind, we can always use hook_form_alter() to modify Webforms and mold them to our […]
How to Add Tabs to Drupal pages
BEWARE: INCREDIBLY SIMPLE These steps work for: Drupal 6 Drupal 7 The Need We had a client request come in that required for us to add a new tab to the user profile for a new page. The Problem How in the world of Drupal are you supposed to add a tab? Use hook_menu_alter? No. […]
Quick Connect to Excel Spreadsheet from Tableau
There are a couple ways we can connect to data in Excel … today I want to show you one that many people overlook. You can simply drag an icon for a file that Tableau recognizes (Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel or a Text File like a .csv or .txt) from your desktop or Windows explorer […]
How to use AutoHotkey to remap your numpad keys to something useful.
Are you tired of having to remember that ALT+0176 is the degree symbol ° ? Maybe there are other special characters that you want to be able to type easier. Personally it was the degree symbol that got me, and since I never use my numpad, I decided it would be much more useful if […]
DFW.TUG Year End Retrospective
Last night was the Dallas – Fort Worth Tableau user group’s annual holiday party. They say there aint no party like a data geek party, I think the 15 data geeks in attendance last night would agree! One of my favorite traditions is the year end retrospective blog post. This has been a fun year […]
Enhanced 2011 Final Harris Poll Results Tableau Style
As the last week of the college regular season football schedule ended, the big debate was if Oklahoma State did enough to earn a spot in the BCS Championship game. As an Oklahoma state fan, I believe they did, after they demolished a pre-season number 1 Oklahoma squad, but as we all know now, the […]