Hack For Change Challenge

Participated in the Hack For Change challenge in Western Mass. All the challenges where inspiring, I took part in the “Unlocking Prison Phone Data” because it seemed like the most difficult challenge. A blog post about it is here Overall it was a lot of scrapping and command line work done by Gyepi Sam, doing some amazing work in Perl and all command line. It was great to see. Pulling down files, processing the PDFs via OCR and pushing them into the Postgres db.

June 3, 2013 Read
ActiveAdmin Rails

Pretty amazing drop in interface to manage a site. I am building a Speakers Bureau for a non-profit and ended up using this to make that part of the build easier. http://activeadmin.info/ My only fear was bringing in way more than I needed but so far it is okay because of how hookable it is. I have dealt with other systems that can be a pain to hook so I am still always nervous about that moment when the hook takes more time than if you built it your self.

May 30, 2013 Read
Great tip on Git and Jenkins to auto deploy

with every git push I would like jenkins to run it's tests then deploy the branch if it passes. This git plugin for jenkins notes you can setup a post-receive hook in git. https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Git+Plugin Git goes over what is available here http://git-scm.com/book/en/Customizing-Git-Git-Hooks All I did was add post-receive to the git repo and added the curl command in the script noted in the plugin above and now Jenkins will auto run on every git push origin development Nice!

April 14, 2013 Read
Going Angular.js

Going Angular Took some time to rewrite my drupal/bootstrap site into Angular.js and slim php. Using slim and a seed project I quickly had a rest api to get the different content types, Blog, Page etc. I am using the Page content type to make other dynamic parts to the site like Footer and Header. After a quick migration from drupal to a more basic MySQL db layout (soon mongodb?

April 12, 2013 Read
Javascript Based Product Viewer

Due to NDA limitations I had to remove links to the final product Latest Project Virtual Design Tool. [ url removed due to nda issues ) -: ]Some points that were fun, new, and challenging.Model, View, Controller mindet.Building the RESTful service/API firstTrying to follow a feature driven development plan.Having smaller tasks and more points of QAHaving smaller points to check in with the client to review the finished tasks and not wait till the “end”.

March 22, 2013 Read
Global Redirect module after spaces / purl install does not

Sometime when using spaces and purl there are Pages Not Found even though they are there. This is one reason. There is a space that purl is looking for a url starting with eg test. Some day you make a node test/testmore and decide later to use drupal's redirect to save the url test/testmore and delete the node (or unpublish it) But since spaces and purl is keeping an eye on test it will not work.

January 15, 2013 Read
DrupalCamp Western Mass

I will be presenting on 2 topics. Using a VM for development the url can be seen below. http://drupalcampma.com/virtual-box-ubuntu-local-development-strategy jQuery/Ajax without using the Drupal FAPI http://drupalcampma.com/using-jquery-and-ajax-outside-drupal-fapi Though this drupal backbone session looks great! http://drupalcampma.com/drupal-and-backbonejs

January 14, 2013 Read
jQuery Address

Simple example of jQuery.address in use. As you click the top “black” menu area the pages will load via Ajax (and title) notice also the URL. Then if you click back it forces a reload. There is very little code needed to make this work. Other than the ajax callback I run this on page load (eg pressing back on the browser button) //Jquery Address clicking back $.address.externalChange(function(){ if($.address.value() !== '/') { updateMe($.

January 14, 2013 Read
NDA

Some sites are under NDA. So if you see this message at some point after clicking a link it is due to that. If you have questions about the link you clicked feel free to email me at alfrednutile@gmail.com

July 11, 2008 Read