Author: gregoryheller

Looks like it is Microsoft day here on the CA blog. Just heard that Microsoft did not get ISO certification for Office file formats. This is great news for OpenOffice.org and other free and open source “office” applications. From the Market Place story above: Microsoft has suffered an embarrassing rebuff. The company has tried for…

On Tuesday (appropriately) Aaron, Henri, Dan and I met with Oren Jaffe and Nikki Martinez to strategize about the EcoTuesday juggernaut. The one problem with the meeting was that I was a few hundred miles away from the meeting. Thanks to technology were able to video conference. And, because of my amazing mastery of the…

The LCV is raising money to run two advertisements for the presidential race. The ads don’t favor any particular candidate, rather aim to raise possibly the most important issue facing American’s today: How will we change our country’s policies to preserve the habitability of our planet for future generations.

A few people at the Seattle DUG have asked me how to drop sidebars from panels generated pages. With Panels 2, this is made easy, just a configuration setting. However if you are using the original panels module, you’ll need to add a little snippet of code to your theme’s template.php file: // Hide sidebars…

Robert Douglas of Lullabot wrote a great tutorial on setting up Views Fast Search, a great module that speeds up search on your Drupal site (an oversimplification, but I’ll let you read Robert’s article for the details).

One of the missing fruits in the Drupal module cornucopia has been online petitions. It seems with each major release of drupal there has been something “petition like” but never has a module really satisfied a broad range of requirements around petitions. There are many reasons for this, to be sure, competiting CRM solutions (to…

About two week ago I was listening to Inside Renewable Energy (my favorite podcast, because I’m a geek like that!) and host Stephen Lacey interviewed Mitch Rofsky, President of the Better World Club, a different kind of auto club (like Automobile Association of America).

This weekend is DrupalCampNYC3. DrupalCamps are an fun, interesting, if a bit quirky distributed event that CivicActions has been involved since what we think was the first one last year in SF, we subsequently were involved in sponsoring or planning DrupalCamps in Seattle (2), New York City (2) and Toronto.

I was watching the nightly news tonight when I heard about this alarming story. Apparently, Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff has a gut feeling that America might be attacked this summer. On Tuesday, Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security, told the editorial board of The Chicago Tribune that he had a “gut feeling” about…

SaveTheInternet.com just launched another great video by Matt Thompson (a Web Of Change alumn). The last day for public comment on Net Neutrality is Monday, July 16th. So take a few minutes to take action and submit your comment to the FCC.