Kyle Skrinak's Professional Journal

Someone asked me an interesting question yesterday; “Do you prefer Mac or Windows?” The question engages me because I want to give an hour-long dissertation on the relative advantages of Mac, Windows and Ubuntu. Knowing that my self-indulgent filibuster will drive my friend to tears of sorry boredom

The Token Filter is a great way to insert variable data, e.g., current year: “Copyright 2012″, without enabling the php filter. And, we all know, enabling the PHP Filter is a Very Bad Thing©.  However, getting Token Filter to work as expected is challenging, and the current maintainer is taking a cu

Recently I offered to give a presentation to my local Drupal user’s group (TriDUG) on MAMP-style solutions. I left home earlier than necessary with the plan of simply referencing my Android LG Optimus for directions while en-route. As I would find out out, this would be a colossally bad decision. I

I’ll be presenting today to the TriDUG group at 12 noon; “M/W/XAMPP Solutions for Local Development” at the Kadampa Center in Raleigh. I would love it if you can join us. The TriDUG community is a great community to meet.    

The good news for me is that I’ll be turning off this Windows Server 2003 VPS shortly. However, until then, I’ve been using WinSCP to sync my Win/XAMPP based environment with a genuine LAMP environment. WinSCP is an excellent file transfer utility for that platform that doesn’t talk “rysnc” for what

In the tussle among the many Content Management Systems (CMS)  communities who are vying for more users is what might be the most common brag; “Our community is the most helpful!” As someone who works within three CMS platforms, i.e., , WordPress and Umbraco, I have found the Drupal community to be

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a funny thing. Most of our B2B customers are ambivalent about SEO during our specifications phase of development. “We’re word of mouth” is a common sentiment, a largely rational response. SEO is a great marketing tool, especially when well integrated, rather than

The cobbler’s kids shoes got an upgrade, and, as always, with more updates to come. I started phasing out our ancient, hand-coded site for skrinakcreative so as to convert it into a Drupal site. (For the record, I had considered using umbraco, but my bias towards LAMP stacks overwhelms me) Its odd t

I had an interesting experience recently that encapsulates my experience with two CMS communities; umbraco and drupal. I had tweeted about my moving what is currently an umbraco 4.0.1 site to a Drupal 7.x site. This started an interesting conversation about why the move? Several umbraco fans (or wha

The cliché is that you only get a single chance at first impressions. In this case, we’ve got an exception. I’m talking about the CMS framework Umbraco. First, a little history. In 2007 we identified the need to move a customer’s 1200-page, includes-based site, into a CMS. The site was growing from