spencercritchley.com Archives: October 2009
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31 October 2009
Top Drupal Gotchas: “Access Denied” and Permissions Problems
Cross-posted at O’Reilly Broadcast.
The Drupal Content Management System keeps getting better and better. But the learning curve is still steep and the interface is still tricky – even after working with it for several years, some gotchas keep tripping me up. That tells me it’s worth jotting them down, hopefully to spare a few other Drupallers falling into the traps I’ve fallen into enough times for all of us.
This time: Mysterious problems logging in or accessing content.
These are fairly common and can have a variety of causes. The ones I’ve found most often…
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28 October 2009
Politicians’ Web town halls boost their approval ratings – Nextgov
Lawmakers’ Internet-based town hall meetings increase constituents’ approval ratings for the politician, enhance citizen engagement in politics and ultimately impact the probability of participants voting for that member of Congress, according to a new Congressional Management Foundation report. CMF Executive Director Beverley Bell said online meetings offer lawmakers a flexible tool for communication in addition [...]
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25 October 2009
WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal
From Personal Democracy Forum: http://personaldemocracy.com/node/15131 WhiteHouse.gov has gone Drupal. After months of planning, says an Obama Administration source, the White House has ditched the proprietary content management system that had been in place since the days of the Bush Administration in favor of the latest version of the open-source Drupal software, as the AP alluded [...]
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21 October 2009
300,000 strong for health care reform
The target was 100,000. But volunteers across the country blew past that goal by early afternoon yesterday. New goal: 200,000. The result? More than 300,000 calls in one day! All in support of the health care reform this country needs so badly. And Monterey County Democrats were part of it. When health care reform is [...]
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17 October 2009
Betty Moon: “I Get High”
What a blast to see this after all this time – I didn’t know Betty ever made a video of it. My brother Owen wrote the song (Betty added new lyrics) and I was the arranger and played guitar on the recording.
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6 October 2009
Four schools fixed, six to go
I’m happy and proud to see this story from the Monterey Herald. Four elementary schools fixed, six to go, thanks to the $90 million Salinas Measure A bond campaign in 2006. Rick Rivas and I did the communications, Gary Karnes did the field organizing, and the school district staff and parents worked really, really hard. [...]