Chris Charabaruk Archive - Latest Comments

Re: Retiring Chris.Charabaruk.com as a blog

Chris Charabaruk — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:46:41 -0000

What's wrong with using Tumblr instead of this site?

Re: Retiring Chris.Charabaruk.com as a blog

Louis Gray — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:14:27 -0000

Nooooo!!!! (deep breath)

Nooooooo!!!!

Re: New content on the Creators Club site, including a huge starter kit!

Chris Charabaruk — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:59:59 -0000

I see no mention of MIT. What are you talking about?

Re: New content on the Creators Club site, including a huge starter kit!

Cparker — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:30:30 -0000

What's the connection to MIT summer programs?

Re: Initial impressions on the Windows Live Essentials wave 4 beta

Chris Charabaruk — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:16:52 -0000

Drupal Publisher has been updated to version 0.3, which not only fixes the issue (which turned out to be a poorly designed sanity check, bad me) but also updates the icon to look nice within the publisher gallery in the ribbon interface.

Re: Initial impressions on the Windows Live Essentials wave 4 beta

Chris Charabaruk — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:29:59 -0000

Seems also that the Live Photo Gallery beta does not like Drupal Publisher. Guess I'm going to have to reacquaint myself with the code there and figure out what's been changed, so it will work again.

Re: DemoCamp Toronto 24 recap

Chris Charabaruk — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:34:50 -0000

My pleasure! 5 Blocks Out is the kind of social network site that we really need: one that helps us connect to our communities better, rather than just advertise us to pure strangers. I'll be keeping my eye on you! :)

Re: DemoCamp Toronto 24 recap

oshoma — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:58:27 -0000

Chris, thanks for the kind words about 5 Blocks Out. We'll reach out beyond downtown Toronto as soon as we can. Crawl, walk, run!

Re: Protecting your tweets is meaningless; you can be read on Twitter Search or Google anyway

Chris Charabaruk — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:32:25 -0000

You shouldn't be trying to find someone's protected tweets in the first place. Not helping you.

Re: Protecting your tweets is meaningless; you can be read on Twitter Search or Google anyway

mikewoodifer — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:39:50 -0000

I HAVE TRIED ALL THIS,AND NOTHING SEEMS TO WORK.
i am not pc savvy etc,but does anyone know how to see protected tweets.
must one be on twitter to do this or can one not even be a member of twitter,and see protected tweets.

Re: Why Solitaire Sucks

Adam Becker — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:59:10 -0000

I just had this thought, this is an awful game. I can only seem to win 33% of the time. I've tried developing 'rules of thumb' but they are never general enough to apply to each deck.

I hate this game!

Re: Quick and Dirty Links Page for Drupal

Carolyn — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:04:18 -0000

Thanks for the reply! Yes, I see your links page working just the way I wish mine would :P

I must just be approaching it from the wrong way, so will keep working on it...

Re: Quick and Dirty Links Page for Drupal

Chris Charabaruk — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:59:15 -0000

To be honest, I don't know what to change to make it work on D6. I'm still running Drupal 5 here due to the fact that my attention is elsewhere, and so I've not had any real experience with D6 development. Besides, I've never seen Drupal push out combo-terms; my own links page is free of them despite more than a few links existing in two or more categories.

My advice would be to just experiment and see where it gets you.

Re: Quick and Dirty Links Page for Drupal

Carolyn — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:18:30 -0000

Hi there, I think this approach would be perfect for a directory I'm developing. I'm working in Drupal 6 and am wondering what would need to be changed in the code above for Drupal 6 implementation?

I'm hoping it will solve a problem with my current approach (using fields & filters etc for a single page View). My links each have multiple taxonomy terms within the vocabulary, which is causing all sorts of combinations to display, eg.

Heading 1: Art
links with taxonomy term Art only
Heading 2: Fashion
links with taxonomy term Fashion only
Heading 3: Art, Fashion
links with both Art & Fashion taxonomy terms

Really, I want these links to appear under both of the first two headings instead, with no additional combo-taxonomy groupings!

(I did try setting my page up as above, in case there were no significant code changes required, but I get a Parse error: syntax error.)

Any help is much appreciated. Thank you for posting this article - it certainly points me in the right direction!

Re: MG Siegler, you owe the hungry an apology

Chris Charabaruk — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:20:49 -0000

Not me personally, but anyone who's needed the support that Microsoft is currently giving to those who can't afford enough food to stay healthy. I've been in that camp before.

Re: MG Siegler, you owe the hungry an apology

Chris Charabaruk — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:19:10 -0000

Okay, I'm seeing the 8 meal claim now. But your article is still an insult, especially given the gumball comparison. (Perhaps you should state the bulk cost per gumball and not retail, eh?) Those of us who've had to rely on charitable handouts just to keep from starving have enough to deal with, without needing to be used as ammunition for picking on the people actually giving money to the orgs that support the hungry.

I'm fortunate enough to not be in that position these days, but I still feel the plight of those less fortunate. And having been in their shoes, I can't help but feel angry at this.

I don't like that Microsoft's only giving $1M, and I've actually nagged at one of the people I know at Microsoft about the low amount. But at least they're actually giving something. And they're not confusing the matter with crooked comparisons between what Feeding America gets and what folks buy at corner stores and supermarkets.

To steal some words from Brad Groux's reply to one of yours on the article (yes, somewhat out of context but very true all the same): "10+ pounds of food could easily provide 8 meals". Think about that. If $1 gets that 10 pounds, then each donation does end up making 8 meals, and with admin costs to spare.

By the way, speaking of out of context, I see what you did there quoting me.

Re: MG Siegler, you owe the hungry an apology

Holden Page — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 03:13:18 -0000

I am really confused? Why does MG owe you an apology? I really don't understand where you're trying to get at with this post.

Re: MG Siegler, you owe the hungry an apology

MG Siegler — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:56:34 -0000

Chill out man. In your own words, "But to see the misinformation being passed off by MG over at TechCrunch, like the laughable claim that the donation per download is supposed to cover 8 meals"

Now, go to the MSFT site: "For every download of Windows Internet Explorer 8 from this site, we will donate 8 meals"

That's exactly what it says. And that's exactly my point.

Re: BESM 3rd Edition has finally arrived!

Chris Charabaruk — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:20:51 -0000

Complaining here won't help any. You'll have to complain at White Wolf.

Re: BESM 3rd Edition has finally arrived!

Pissedoff — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:46:00 -0000

Yeah, were the hell can I get a copy for under $150.00, reprint the damn book, shit!

Re: Just when I thought Blip.fm could solve my music woes, it too starts to hate non-Americans

Chris Charabaruk — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:31:00 -0000

I should try that. A lot of the imeem tracks I get are actually full-length (whether that's because Blip.fm does a good job filtering, or imeem just hates Canadians less than everyone thinks they do, is debatable), but the YouTube videos now... *shudder*

Re: Just when I thought Blip.fm could solve my music woes, it too starts to hate non-Americans

Hans — Thu, 28 May 2009 12:41:48 -0000

There are ways to avoid the iMeem songs (and YouTube vids) like using Blipster. More info at http://www.saveastream.com/...

Re: Twitter and Telus, friends again?

Chris Charabaruk — Sat, 16 May 2009 17:53:14 -0000

I never said that. At the time I wrote this post, Telus was still asking if users wanted full Twitter interoperability back. Which it apparently is, although it's not working for me either.

Re: Twitter and Telus, friends again?

Bill Wonk — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:57:13 -0000

hold on.. so in order to get twitter to work with telus, you're saying one needs to follow the @Telus account? I was wondering for the longest time why even with my mobile settings set to on, I wasn't receiving any messages...

Re: Just when I thought Blip.fm could solve my music woes, it too starts to hate non-Americans

J23 — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:45:01 -0000

That's a good point, and reminds me of hulu.com, which would be AWESOME if I could see shows like Firefly, Lost, Fringe and so on easily on the internets, ( and then maybe buy DVDs later, hint hint..) but it only works in America. Kinda annoying and illogical, as if you opened yourself up to a wider market, using advertising will only get you more revenue. Nice post!