Jun 01, 2009 - 10:28 PM Another month and another ducket in my pocket. We have been working on a lot of little projects as of late. Most are in Drupal with a few .NET and Concrete projects. Here is hoping we can keep up the momentum and get more work in the shop!
I have been working on my house a little finally got an air conditioner man the 80 to 90 degree weather is murder in my top floor it is at least 20 degrees hotter then the outside temperature. Now the room stays at a even 70-75 degrees, now if I could just run my computer and have a few lights on when the darn air condition is on.
Here is hoping I can take a vacation very soon, I am circling the drain fast and am getting very close be being burned out.. ah sleep.
Robert Foley Jr.
May 12, 2009 - 10:29 PM Busy busy busy!
Well I moved my site over to a linux host as the windows server was total crap. Same source code new server, now the pages load instantly.
Work has been hectic as of late, at the middle of April it was very stressful as we had no work. Now we have drummed up lots of small projects and it should help to get us by until we can score some larger projects.
I still have a few bugs to work out on the site, but I don't think many people actually some here so it shouldn't matter much. :P Here is hoping we can keep up the momentum and keep work coming our way. I don't like being unemployed and I equally don't like to do freelance. YUCK!
Robert Foley Jr.
Apr 06, 2009 - 12:22 PM Happy Birthday me!
Well today is my birthday and the last day of a four day mini-vacation. I can't say I have done much, I mostly slept, watched tv, and played video games. The rest of the time I was cleaning my house and doing laundry.
Luckily it has been a beautiful couple of days so I hope to spend the rest of my last day outside. Maybe I will go for a walk or find a few areas near where I live I have been been to.
Here's hopping the next few months are exciting and perhaps in late July or August I will get to go on a real vacation; preferably somewhere outside of my home. ;)
Robert Foley Jr.
Mar 25, 2009 - 6:52 PM Woah, I have been very busy as of late so sorry for a few months with no posts. The project at http://www.pdx.edu has been a great success and now we are scrambling to get more exposure in the Drupal, education, and corporate communities. This means I am very busy and working on a lot of efforts all while taking the helm of a whole new department. :)
Recently I went through the process of getting several modules for Drupal up on www.drupal.org. The process had several hurtles but after following the process and meeting the requirements I have the projects up.
Modules in the suite:
menu_access
Provides global and menu specific security permissions by role and user account.
- Global security for all menus (default)
- Per menu security
menu_item_access
Provides global and menu item specific security permissions by role and user account.
- Inherits security from the parent menu
- Global security for all menu items (default)
- Per menu item security
node_access
Provides global and node specific security permissions by role and user account.
- Global security for all content types and nodes (default).
- Per content type and all nodes for the content type.
- Per node security scheme
admin_access
Provides security check integration for all administration index pages and help index pages to only display links to modules, functions, and content based on the user's permissions and access rights. This module relies on the three modules detailed above. Exclusion from items in the administration and help sections are based on security rules defined in the module permissions and can be overriden using rules defined in the navigation menu (main admin menu).
- all admin index pages
- add content index
- help index/details
Jan 31, 2009 - 12:22 PM Busy days ahead!
Well I just finished up a HUGE project for PSU and I hope we will get additional projects in the future.
Here is a summary of the project, because of the size of the project I separated it into multiple projects.
Multi-department CMS Strategy Analysis
The first project focused on identifying the current system features, business and techincal requirements, and designing a solution with budget and schedule.
Multi-department CMS Development
The development stage focused on customizing and extending the Drupal system to support the features and requirements of the client. Detailed description of the tasks
required is documented in the project profile. A quick highlight, built multi-site user management modules, build navigation and node security access modules, built google
search integration, built LDAP and OpenID integration modules. Created migration tools to convert Oracle database records into the Mysql Drupal datbase system. Required
created a 24 step set of tools and tasks to collect media, convert navigation and page content.
Muti-department Centralized Syndication Development
This development stage focused on providing a centralized syndication system that seamlessly displayed syndicated content into department Drupal websites. A detailed description
of the tasks require is documented in the project profile. A quick highlight, Utilized Views2, CCK, and custom syndication server and client modules to provide syndicated content via XML
on-demand. Developed custom filters, arguments, and views within the Views2 System to provide XML content streams to requesting clients. The major task was creating CCK extended nodes
in the syndication system and customizing broken community modules.
Yep, I have been pretty busy the last eight months now I hope we can get more work lined up as the recession is finally starting to hit my employer hard. I feel confident that with a little effort
we can easily pickup more contracts. The experience and expertise of myself and my co-workers spans over 55 years and many of my co-workers and consultant collegues have a simlar level of experience
to myself. I feel that just providing an overview of the amazing work we have done for Portland State University and Drupal will get more people wanting us to help solve problems for them.
So if you are reading this and looking for help on serious Drupal, Concrete, PHP, Ruby on Rails, and or .NET development come on over to Swipht Technologies and give us a call or email. Or just look at all of the projects and great success stories I have on my site alone.
Robert Foley Jr.
Jan 03, 2009 - 12:11 AM Well, happy new year!
December flew by like crazy, it was my first month in my house and I am still not totally unpacked. Work has been stead and other then the horrible weather everything is staying pretty stable right now.
Last night we had snow and high winds which resulted in a large branch smashing against my new house and crushing the back fence. Luckily no major damage was caused to my house. I would expect the HOA service will have to fix the fence sooner or later.
Well time for bed, I hope you are reading with and are well. The best to all in this new year.
