There is a situation where one field of a Drupal View needs to pull its content from two fields (aka cck fields) of a node. In my case, they were default author field and a custom field called contributor. This example uses Drupal 7 and Views 3.

Every year, Planetizen, the urban planning, development and design network, recognizes ten websites (and a few runners-up) as some of the best resources for its readers. This list is based on nominations by Planetizen readers and staff, and judged against a common set of criteria, including content, design, and usability.

For a recent project creating video-based courses, I needed to select an affordable USB microphone to provide to remote instructors who will be recording video, audio and screencasts directly from the instructor's computer.

With mobile devices being so popular, web users increasingly use mobile browsers instead of desktop browsers to surf the web. Developers and designers need to keep this in mind when building web sites to avoid potential revenue loss due to web pages being unattractive or unusable on mobile devices.

I started hearing about this CSS preprocessor stuff a couple of years ago. The concept intrigued me: Use special, supercharged CSS files that could contain variables, functions, "mixins", and other features. After development, these special files would then be compiled into regular CSS files that all web browsers could understand.

To my peril, I stayed away from CSS preprocessors until recently. "Why should I add another layer of complexity to my development workflow?" I thought. "I know what I'm doing with CSS. If it's not broken, don't fix it."

Homebrew is a package manager that makes it easy to install UNIX tools which don't come with OS X. Using the Homebrew package manager provides a great amount of control over the software installed on an OS X system, and it can be used to provide missing elements to run Drupal directly on OS X as a development environment.

I didn't set out to use Homebrew. I simply wanted to use wget instead of curl. I had no idea that would lead me to completely change my development setup.

TinyMCE provides two tools to facilitate cut & paste of text from a Microsoft Word document or web page into a web page with the Drupal content management system.

In TinyMCE 3.4.9, the “Paste from Word” feature will preserve basic Word document formatting while removing special Word-specific code that transparently accompanies a paste from Word which typically messes up the display of a web page.  The “Paste as Plain Text” feature, like Windows Notepad or Mac TextEdit, will strip out all formatting that accompanies content from a Word document or web page.

Coming to work every week at the Urban Insight/Planetizen offices in Koreatown has provided me with a wonderful opportunity to explore what is undoubtedly one of Los Angeles’s most unique and diverse neighborhoods. And that diversity is not just confined to its ethnic namesake, but extends to its urban and built environment.

While it was a PC dominated environment a few years ago at my work place, people have started to switch to Macs when they are allowed to choose their workstation. Now most of my co-workers use Mac as their main machine while their PC is still around as a backup machine, for testing, or for .NET development.

A technical case study into how we developed the new Planetizen Video Courses platform using Drupal 7 and Brightcove Cloud video hosting to deliver affordable online education to professionals in the urban planning, architecture, and related professions.