October

I set up a quick and dirty file sharing site the other day. It was pretty easy, though I did have to make one small custom module.

Another project for the end of September was a redesign/re-engineering of http://inspire4life.org. The old site had grown organically, the way the stuff at the back of the fridge does. It needed a big overhaul in time for their autumn event, the Puck-Putt challenge.

We had some pro-bono help from PARTNERS+simons (hooray), which laid out the basic look, feel, and structure. We were not bound to their designs, but it was great to have a stable platform to build on.

I spent a good portion of last weekend (the end of September) rewriting the donation form for http://supportunitedway.org. Here were the "exciting" parts:

• Various URL variables affect how the form displays and validates itself, so we can use one module for lots of different forms now.

I set up Alternate Login on http://supportunitedway.org recently. Everyone's user names are their full names, but they want to log in with first initial last name anyway. It's sort of funny how we're more used to that now than our own names.

Anyway after the install I took an export of the users table, with UID and email, stripped off the domain name, and imported it into the alt_login table. Worked a charm!