Sam Lerner's blog

With all the new people joining the CivicActions team in the past few weeks, it's easy for us all to forget an important part of the on-boarding process of new civic-minded nodeists.

Profile pictures.

An appropriate profile picture is essential to one's ensconcement into the CivicActions fold. Before you go digging through iPhoto for that winning head-shot, let me present a brief analysis of what makes a properly awesome CivicActions profile photo.

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We recently upgraded core for civicactions.com, and found a nasty bug where comments were no longer appearing on blog posts. They were listed in the admin, and even in the Recent Posts block, but would not show after the blog content.

After some sleuthing, I discovered an error message in dblog whenever a blog page was visited:

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Each year, Amnesty International releases a comprehensive report on the state of the world's human rights. Amnesty International decided on Drupal as their website platform for the 2009 report based on the successful redesign of their main site with Drupal in 2007.

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Cross-browser theme development for multilingual websites, like Amnesty International, is a lengthy process. Not only must the site look great in 7 or more browsers (IE 6/7/8,Firefox , Safari, Opera, Chrome) but all that work is multiplied by each language. Translated text changes length, forms get messy, and you would not believe the bizarre voodoo invoked by right-to-left layouts, like Hebrew or Arabic, in IE6.

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On June 15th, the Great Turtle Race 2008 reached its conclusion, after 14 days of people from across the world cheering on their favorite turtles. Organized by TOPP, NOAA, and Drexel University, the Race is a Flash application that processes data from tagged leatherbacks into an animated "turtle race".

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