Code, Camera, Action blog

iCloud Photo Sharing: Family photos without Facebook

Updated 8 Jan 2020 for iOS 13, which renamed iCloud Photo Sharing and changed the share sheet.

iOS, camera

iPad Pro-ductivity

It’s really impressive how good the larger iPad Pro is — and how suddenly the machine and its software have improved. At last Apple seems to have gotten serious about building on the strengths of the iPad’s larger screen, and the 12” iPad Pro has become a real productivity machine.1

My point of comparison is an iPad Air and a Mini 2, both of which have no fingerprint reader and seem to lag while launching apps. The 12-inch Pro hardware is faster, the fingerprint reader a huge timesaver. And the machine can now multitask. In fact, I’m writing this while running update scripts for a couple of my servers — something that would have been impossible on my previous iPad Air. ↩

iOS, apps, writing

Ulysses 2.5 - All your texts, now on iPhone

The love of my writing life is Ulysses on the iPad Pro. The app is powerful enough to accommodate everything, with a restrained design that keeps that power from interfering with my thinking.

writing, iOS, apps

Drupal Multisite Without Code

Just because you can create customize functionality in your Drupal site, that doesn’t mean you need to. Come see how SGIA.org transformed their web presence by coloring within the lines. Not only did they build three websites on one installation and incorporate commerce functionality, they also created an online experience dedicated to ensuring their audience can find the rich and useful content they offer.

drupal, cms, code

Dancing with the Elephants

What do the week’s Facebook and Google+ changes mean for your web presence?

facebook, platforms, post, social media

Drupal is Legos for Websites

Maybe we’ve recommended building your website with Drupal, the content management system (CMS). Perhaps you’ve heard how the White House and Congress and Sony Music (and many, many others) use Drupal for their public websites.

code, drupal, post, popular, open source

What I learned from ripping 16,000 articles from PDF into Drupal

First off, Drupal is made for lots of content -- 16,000 articles is no problem. Taxonomy, views, search -- so much of what you need for handling big content is baked into the Drupal platform. Add Apache Solr for faceted search, and you have a scalable, flexible web publishing platform.

code, drupal, post, popular, open source

The app approach to signal vs. noise

Seems our electronic lives have become nests of priority inboxes. No, I don’t mean Google’s latest Gmail enhancement, but something more longstanding and fundamental.

apps, code, platforms, post