Andy Chase

If you’re wondering where the color picker on your Drupal theme settings page went, ask yourself: Did you change the ‘files’ access mode from ‘Public’ to ‘Private’? According to http://drupal.org/node/92059 that makes the color picker go away.

This is probably well documented if you look in the right place, but having just spent a number of hours puzzling through it on my own (despite) having access to documentation, I think it bears reiteration:

If you use '#value' when declaring a form element, that value is what will be received after submission, even if applied to a textfield that gets changed by the user. (This makes sense when passing a value behind the scenes, as you would do with a '#value' form element)

Use '#default_value' if you want the end-user to be able to modify the value.

Yesterday I learned that Windows XP’s Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) allows you to do port forwarding, for example taking requests to port 80 from the internets and forwarding them to a machine behind the firewall. (Don’t ask why I’m using ICS. It’s not by choice, believe me.)

In recent years past, when September rolled around I would be counting the days until the start of the hockey season.

Then came the lockout in ‘04-‘05, the Thornton trade in ‘05, the firing of Mike Sullivan, and the subsequent hiring of Dave Lewis, all of which added up to a spectacularly craptastic season in ‘06-‘07.

Even the snazzy new uniform isn’t enough to get me actively anticipatory about hockey this year.

That’s not to say I won’t be watching, at least for the first few months of the season… but my expectations are so low that it’s hard to get excited.