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Website updated finally, to go with my new freelancin' life

Updated my website. It is funny how badly my own website can be neglected. Since I recently quit working at the Science Museum of Minnesota, I decided to take this opportunity to make some changes. * Renamed the site from artmess.org to my old domain name, chachaville.com * Reorganized the content a little bit as it appears that this site is becoming more of an article-based blog. * Starting to put more images & stories behind the projects I have worked on.

Drupal Patch Party!

Drupalchix:TwinCities Patch Party! who: twincities drupalchix what: drupal patch party when: (tentatively) August 8, 2009 - Saturday - 10-2 (optional to stay til 4) where: somewhere with internet why: group project to learn how to contribute back to drupal project by 'reviewing patches' to drupal 7 codebase Drupal 7 is in the final weeks of accepting contributions from developers all over the world, many of whom are hoping to get their code into the next r

pimped our dashboard

We (myself and courtney miller) finally launched a little dashboard feature for http://nisenet.org We have a lot of content types - and they are grouped in certain sets of types of content types. So, I made a themer-friendly dashboard module. You can see it has lists of links/shortcuts. Also, there are tabs of views made for the users, right now 2 of them -- their content and their comments. THAT uses the tabs module, which rules.

Yay the Mind website finally launched!

screenshot of cute-ify The Mind website just launched. This was a project I worked on for 4 years at the Exploratorium -- developing web/kiosk interactives and some physical exhibits.

New theme released for Omeka 0.9

Here is a theme I worked on for the Omeka platform in conjunction with UC Berkeley's Open Knowledge and the Public Interest department, with Noah Wittman. This theme will make it a lot easier for people with less web experience (or less time) to create a visually rich web experience. It was totally fun to work on!

makin' modules with other people rules!!

A few weeks ago, I attended a code sprint. This code sprint had the goal of enhancing Drupal taxonomy (core and contributed) modules in a way that will make it possible for scientists to import massive quantities of taxonomic information about all of the different species on this planet.   I would like to share this experience of group module development, especially with DrupalChix! So I wrote this article

Doing a class at DrupalDaze!

http://drupaldaze.com/ I will be giving a presentation about theming CCK fields at DrupalDaze, this coming Sunday.

More on using Drupal 6.2

I managed to add a bunch of pages about my own projects with Drupal 6 in a very short time. Drupal 6 is pretty swift. The only serious problem is still that Views is still beta..I will experiment with this and let you all know how it goes.

Update: Spring 2008

Winter in Minneapolis wasn't so terrible. I am really really looking forward to spring. I'll be actively posting information about owl and frog monitoring later this summer. I'm enrolled in a botanical illustration program, the Minnesota School of Botanical Art. Here's the flickr page with occasional postings of new paintings and drawings. The teachers are really amazing, and I learn SO much in every class.

Artmess is now Drupal 6.2.

I trashed my last website...jumping straight into Drupal 6. For those of you who want to know, I got the whole thing up and running in about 30 minutes -- minus a few minutes turning on a subversion repository for myself, dumping my existing webcontent and trashing an old database. I got distracted watching a few lullabot how-to-videos. So far Drupal 6 seems really quick, though I haven't turned on any modules yet. I really don't need Views 2, Panels 2 or anything else like that on my own computer...so I'll be ready by the time the drupal people launch those major modules.