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Object Oriented Web Development and Why Managers Don't Get It

I graduated from college in 1997.  It took me five years to get through school mostly because I was paying for it as I went and honestly not quite sure what I would major in until it was almost too late.  Ironically, I was studying business and at the same time taking computer programming classes for fun and quickly needed to pick a major or just sign up to endlessly be a student (which was not something I wanted to do.)  So after talking with the teachers I knew the best, I was ready to switch over from the business department and get a computer science degree while completi

Waiting for CS5: Collision Grid Test

Learning Drupal

I am working pretty hard these days to wrap my brain around all of the capabilities of drupal. And I am thoroughly impressed with the community-contributed modules that absolutely solve so many common issues for most web sites.
In particular, I am in love with views 2, pathauto, and the ability to write wacky php code in arguments of views to contextually manipulate information.  It took a long bit of research to figure that stuff out, but once you'ev got it, it is like riding a bike... you're not likely to soon forget how it works!

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