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PhilipScheffer.com Redesign

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Hey All!

Sorry for our lack of blogging. Jon and I have both been doing lots of Drupal theming on various projects. We promise to blog more when we get some time (like when we finish moving this site over to Drupal 7 :o)

In the mean time, I’ve been tweaking out since I haven’t done anything creative for a few months and have been failing miserably at keeping an updated personal site. (more…)

PHP Classes and Functions

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

PHP is a very powerful programming language which is favored more than many other languages when it comes to web functionality. In a personal viewpoint after learning functions and then on to classes you can start building much more advanced scripts and the only limit is your imagination.

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DrupalCon SF 2010: Defining and pitching your process

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

After this session and reviewing some notes i felt that (at least the beginning part) this presentation was great because it did give me some new things to implement into our (rr) business plan and our design process.
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Whats New in Drupal 7 Theming

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Some of my favorite new Drupal 7 theming “features”: (more…)

DrupalCon SF 2010: Day Uno

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Jon and I are in San Francisco attending Drupalcon 2010 to hone and learn our Drupal skillz (and possibly meet new people who want to hire us!) Day 1 was pretty varied. We are jumping around instead of following a track. Highlights below. (more…)

Drupalcon SF

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Jon and I (Phil) are in San Francisco attending Drupalcon 2010. This is our first conference as Riot Riot, and it is very exciting. (more…)

Collaberative Coding: How we work!

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

Ever work in sync with another co-worker on a particular program or file? If that’s so i’m sure you know some of the problems that can be run into. There is the potential chance of file over-writing or mistakenly deleting something that you should not have. Philip and I have both encountered this before when working on projects, and trust me after spending many hours on a particular section on a site then only to be saved over by accident by your partner almost makes you want to smash your head into the wall.

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DrupalCon SF 2010

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

Riot Riot is headed to DrupalCon in San Francisco for the first time this year! We are very excited to learn and meet more of the community. See you there?

Riot Riot Client Framework

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Interwebs, mark today as the beginning of Riot Riot’s new adventure of using our framework!

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Simple PHP Progress Bar

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

The other day i was looking to create a simple progress bar for a test application. So this is what i came up with in. Keep in mind this is nothing super intelligent or sophisticated. (more…)

Flickr API and PHP, display images!

Monday, February 8th, 2010

Flickr in the past couple years has really turned into a great service. PHP too has been a vital item to internet development! Now lets make them play nice together to grab some of your recent images in your flikr account! (more…)

Random Illustrator: Outlines

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

The Pen Tool is quickly becoming my favorite Weapon of Choice. Today I doodled up a photo of myself that we might use for our “Who We Are” section. If you decide to create a neat traced image, take your time, and add as much detail as you can! (more…)

CSS3: Rounded Corners

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

CSS3 has a few very useful features, such as: Rounded Corners. If you are using a CSS3 compatible browser, you will notice our current version of our site uses many rounded corners. They are all done with CSS3. (more…)

PHP & MySQL Query Result Loops

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Static content is dying, but dynamic sites are emerging left and right. Lets focus on using PHP and merge it with mySQL so we can pull some dynamic data!

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Open Atrium: The Coolest Thing Since Sliced Bread

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

Riot Riot is now using Open Atrium as its Intranet and as a collaboration tool with customers. (more…)

Test Multiple MAMP Vhosts With Parallels XP

Sunday, August 9th, 2009

This tutorial is based on the presumption that you have successfully installed MAMP on your Mac and are running multiple vhosts. If you have not done this yet, please see this link. (more…)