fmSpark Featured in FileMaker DevCon Keynote Address

Wow. That was cool... This morning Andy Lecates, the Systems Engineer Manager for FileMaker, Inc., featured fmSpark among a handful of great examples of the cool things that can be done with FileMaker 9 during his portion of the opening keynote address. He spent several minutes showing off how fmSpark can be used to create and send an HTML email, save templates, and manage recipients.

Value List 5.x-1.2 released for Drupal

After some debugging yesterday, I released a new version of the Value List module for Drupal 5.x. It fixes a small bug that can intermittently occur due to whitespace between list items.

Value List 5.x-1.2 is available at http://drupal.org/project/valuelist.

The Inestimable Value of a PHP Debugger

(This falls squarely under the "Well, duh!" category, but remembering how long I used PHP without the benefit of a debugger myself, I figure it bears repeating.)

The flip side of Drupal's elegant and flexible system of hooks is that when you’re building a site that relies on lots of different modules, things can start to get a little bit slippery if you need to troubleshoot which module is hooking into the core and how/where/when.