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BC Candidate Lookup plugin for Citizens Connected
May, 10 2013 CommentsIn anticipation of the upcoming provincial election we were looking for ways to help organizations who want to target email campaigns at electoral candidates.
In parternship with OpenNorth we inputted candidate data which then became available to us as part of the fantastic opennorth API. From that point it was just a matter of tweaking our federal mp lookup plugin to consume it.
As you can see below the user is asked for a postal code and from this information a list of candidates is generated that the user can then add to the "To:" field of their email. In this way it becomes easy to quickly let your candidates know how you stand on an issue before an election.
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More automation with Drush shebang shell scripting
October, 24 2012 CommentsLast weekend our dev team attended the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit. We had a blast, we nerded out about Foundation and we learned a lot (especially about SCSS and Compass). We were taking furious notes and we can expect some big changes to come to our Cogito Foundation theme in the coming weeks.
We also did a presentation where we took a website from design to build to theming to launch in front of a live audience in 45 minutes. People said we were crazy (and the jury is still out on that one) but it worked like a charm and the demo gods were with us.
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Covenant House Vancouver Now Mobile Responsive
October, 2 2012 Comments
This week we launched a very exciting project for our beloved friends and longterm clients at Covenant House Vancouver. While there's no doubt that their new site is beautiful, the really exciting part for our team was that with this project we got to help Covenant House become a leader in providing a truly mobile responsive website to help serve their own clients, as well as for easy use by supporters and donors.
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Displaying Drupal Context regions in Node templates
July, 25 2012 CommentsTheme regions in Drupal are normally output in the Page template (page.tpl.php) in a format similar to this:
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Nice taxonomy term separators in Drupal 7
June, 20 2012 CommentsHave you ever wanted to add a separator like a comma ',' between the output of taxonomy terms?
When you output a list of terms in a view on Drupal you get something like this:
Topics: Drupal WordPress Development Design Process
So what do you think the topics are? "WordPress Development" "Design Process", or is it "WordPress", "Development", "Design Process"? You can see where I'm going with this. Wouldn't it be nice to add a separator of any kind to make this easier to read? I created a module that adds a Display handler to the Term reference field that allows the output of a separator. It also allows the addition of a separator at the end in the event that you want to separate multiple vocabularies.
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Tab-tastic!
June, 13 2012 CommentsWe use the infinitely awesome Foundation framework here at Raised Eyebrow for everything from Interactive Wireframing to creating mobile responsive sites.
We've also been using the amazing Quick Tabs Drupal module by Katherine Bailey for a few recent Drupal builds. This module comes with 3 options for rendering tabs, all of which are completely satisfactory and can be styled in whatever way you see fit. However, because we're using Foundation and want to make the most of what it does for tabs, I wrote a quick module that implements the Foundation tab framework into the Quick Tabs module.
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Recent Site Launches
June, 11 2012 CommentsWe've been busy these last few months working on some really great projects. Some of them will be launching soon, but for now I wanted to take a few minutes over a cup of tea on this sunny afternoon to update you on some recent launches:
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Teaching Drupal at UBC
June, 8 2012 Comments
I've always loved teaching. In my 20's I taught guitar to anyone who wanted to learn. I've never been quite sure why I loved it so much. It may be that I'm good with people, having been a musical performer for many years. It may be seeing the satisfaction in a student's face when they finally 'get it'. So when Emira approched me a few weeks back about a request she'd had from UBC in regards to teaching a Drupal course, I jumped at the opportunity.
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We Built the Internet Hall of Fame
April, 23 2012 CommentsWhile it's not quite the same as the honour of being inducted, we were pretty thrilled earlier this year when The Internet Society asked our team to build the online home of the Internet Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame site was built to honour some of our greatest heros, the people whose work has literally made our jobs possible like Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee. Also in this year's round of inductees, Mitchell Baker, Open Source advocate and founding chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, and a woman we have much respect and admiration for here at Raised Eyebrow.
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Why we created a new Drupal distribution
April, 4 2012 CommentsSince we pushed the DataPublic distribution to Drupal.org a few weeks ago, a number people have asked the question, "Why did you not use the OpenPublic Drupal distribution as a base?".
There are many reasons we followed the path that we did. I hope to outline a few of them here:
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