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Enabling Custom taxonomy markers in views

As part of the build out of a recent client site with location enabled architectural case studies, I modified the Gmap module (patching gmap_plugin_style_gmap.inc) to support taxonomy markers in Gmap Views (http://drupal.org/node/327053). Previously custom markers were only displayed on the standard map/node page.

The inspiration for my patch was included as part of DEV (http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/gmap-6.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz) , but not the desired functionality.

Startup Equity Division - How to cut the founders pie

In a previous post I promised to share a spreadsheet which helps calculate startup equity division.
There are two sheets. "Cutting the Founders Pie" provides overall instructions as well as an overview of:

    xotbox and the Founders Pie

    I had a chance to listen to Andy Sack (http://asack.typepad.com/) and a bunch of other tech industry, startup type folks at the 6 Hour Startup Conference this past weekend at the Columbia City Theater in Seattle. Great space.
     

    Web Search, Text Mining, and Lucene

    Giving a little talk for Ankur Teredesai's Web Search class at UW Tacoma today on leveraging Lucene for web search and text mining.

    As with most presentations, the slides are just a jumping off point for discussion.

    the new look for Hazel Consulting

    Many thanks to Sarah Johnson for the great new look.

    Like many programmers my aesthetic sense is, shall we say, a bit off. Sarah did a great job, although she may be a little disappointed that i rolled the theme live before I finished it.

    But it looks so much better than the last one http://old.hazelconsulting.com

    Drupal Camp Vancouver 08 Hardening and Optimizing Slides

    Slides from talk at Drupal Camp Vancouver 08.

     

    Video that Gregory Heller shot at DCV08, its about 600MB's to download and covers the performance version of the talk.

     

    Linux Fest Northwest Talk -- Drupal GOTCHA'S - Hardening and Optimizing your Drupal site

    Drupal GOTCHA'S - Hardening and Optimizing your Drupal site. With a strong community and robust core, Drupal, an open source content management platform, is a solid foundation on which to build your website, whether it be community or corporate. The community has contributed almost 3500 (3472), this can be a bit overwhelming for someone trying to put up a Drupal site that is fast and secure. This talk will cover some of the easiest, and most important things you can do to improve the performance and security of your site.

    Port your Views to Modules, speed up your site and save your code

    There are two key benefits derived from a Views to Module port:

    1. speeding up your site
    2. version control on your code

    One of the things you can do to improve performance on your Drupal site is to port all your views to modules, then turn off the Views UI.

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