Quick Effective Fix for Drupal User Spam Accounts

I’ve used Drupal for a number of years on projects. It is an amazingly flexible and fun to use (as a developer and designer) content management system. One of the biggest aggravations I see is the amount of Spam User Accounts that are created due to the standard path for the user login. There are many way to combat this, however, a quick fix to start with is the Rename Admin Paths module.

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SASS –watch not compliling?

I ran into an issue with my CLI sass –watch not compliling some new files the other day. I tried closing and reopening the bash window, clearing the .sass-cache as well as cancelling and restarting sass –watch with different paths.

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Content Before Design

Content matters. It really does. This might be hard to believe, but if you don’t have content your site won’t matter no matter how beautiful it turns out to be. I really cannot imagine “designing” a site around the thin air that is intended to be filled with who knows what. Lorem Ipsum can only go so far.

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Google Map V2 Android Maps Extensions and Passing Data to Activities

Working with Android (JAVA) is awesome. I love how you can write a little code and see a huge change in a UI. I’ve been fiddling with Google Maps V2 and a simple app. I need to pass some data based on the marker clicked to the next activity. You can do this by making a complicated HashMap for example or you can do this easily by using an awesome library called Android Maps Extensions.

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