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/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/2009/08/update-rotator-php-scraped/ http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2009/08/update-rotator-php-scraped/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:49:17 +0000 Kyle Skrinak http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2009/08/update-rotator-php-scraped/ Huh. Turns out mutlisite drupal and placing files at a directory’s root added a layer of complexity I hadn’t planned on. I used image module and views, which is just as well, as it has other advantages, such as using image nodes.]]> http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2009/08/update-rotator-php-scraped/feed/ 0