http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp My Professional Journal Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:31:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2012/01/old-again-new-again-irc-and-the-drupal-community/ http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2012/01/old-again-new-again-irc-and-the-drupal-community/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:31:20 +0000 Kyle Skrinak http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/?p=669 In the tussle among the many Content Management Systems (CMS)  communities who are vying for more users is what might be the most common brag; “Our community is the most helpful!” As someone who works within three CMS platforms, i.e., , WordPress and Umbraco, I have found the Drupal community to be by far the most [...]]]> http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2012/01/old-again-new-again-irc-and-the-drupal-community/feed/ 0 http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2012/01/easy-website-home-page-updates/ http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2012/01/easy-website-home-page-updates/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:00:59 +0000 Kyle Skrinak http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/?p=646 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a funny thing. Most of our B2B customers are ambivalent about SEO during our specifications phase of development. “We’re word of mouth” is a common sentiment, a largely rational response. SEO is a great marketing tool, especially when well integrated, rather than being thumb-tacked on as an afterthought. However, for [...]]]> http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2012/01/easy-website-home-page-updates/feed/ 0 http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2012/01/drupal-paths-and-existing-directories/ http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2012/01/drupal-paths-and-existing-directories/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:47:16 +0000 Kyle Skrinak http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/?p=642 The cobbler’s kids shoes got an upgrade, and, as always, with more updates to come. I started phasing out our ancient, hand-coded site for skrinakcreative so as to convert it into a Drupal site. (For the record, I had considered using umbraco, but my bias towards LAMP stacks overwhelms me) Its odd to sell Drupal/CMS [...]]]> http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2012/01/drupal-paths-and-existing-directories/feed/ 0 http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2011/08/drupal-umbraco-and-wordpress-in-that-order/ http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2011/08/drupal-umbraco-and-wordpress-in-that-order/#comments Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:35:12 +0000 admin http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/?p=627 I had an interesting experience recently that encapsulates my experience with two CMS communities; umbraco and drupal. I had tweeted about my moving what is currently an umbraco 4.0.1 site to a Drupal 7.x site. This started an interesting conversation about why the move? Several umbraco fans (or what I call “umbracians,”) wondered why the [...]]]> http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2011/08/drupal-umbraco-and-wordpress-in-that-order/feed/ 2 http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2011/01/second-chance-at-first-impressions-moving-a-site-to-umbraco-4-5-2/ http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2011/01/second-chance-at-first-impressions-moving-a-site-to-umbraco-4-5-2/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:00:59 +0000 Kyle Skrinak http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/?p=595 The cliché is that you only get a single chance at first impressions. In this case, we’ve got an exception. I’m talking about the CMS framework Umbraco. First, a little history. In 2007 we identified the need to move a customer’s 1200-page, includes-based site, into a CMS. The site was growing from one language to [...]]]> http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2011/01/second-chance-at-first-impressions-moving-a-site-to-umbraco-4-5-2/feed/ 0 http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2010/12/note-to-self-git-on-windows/ http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2010/12/note-to-self-git-on-windows/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:23:25 +0000 Kyle Skrinak http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/?p=598 Two simple notes about running git (specifically msysgit) on Windows that tripped me up: at first: git config core.autocrlf false will prevent the conversion to unix-style line endings To exclude all directories but a few, do the following: /* /dirname* In the above, the first rule excludes all directories, but the second line includes the [...]]]> http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2010/12/note-to-self-git-on-windows/feed/ 0 http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2010/12/snapping-in-a-new-blog-theme/ http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2010/12/snapping-in-a-new-blog-theme/#comments Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:19:05 +0000 Kyle Skrinak http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/?p=572 Inspired by the rantings over at The Dev Show, I’ve done a re-theming of this blog. While not as visually stunning as what Elena can add to it, it’s good enough for blogging purposes. I’m using the Constructor WordPress theme. It’s donation-ware but so far I like it, and will be contributing to the project. [...]]]> http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2010/12/snapping-in-a-new-blog-theme/feed/ 0