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My 1st Adopted Drupal Module

Wed, 11/26/2008 - 03:47 -- brad

This was originally posted on my blog "My 1st Drupal: Recipes and Stories from and for new Drupal users," which has since been discontinued. All My1stDrupal posts have been merged into this site.


I adopted my first Drupal module today. I haven't done any development, but I wanted to post quickly to comment on how ridiculously easy it was. Here's how the process unfolded...

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Lit Review: Lessig in a Nutshell

Sat, 11/15/2008 - 21:08 -- brad

This post was originally written for my now discontinued thesis blog "Open Culture: the Future of Data, Code, Government and Culture," which chronicled my work on my masters thesis, "From Coding to Community: Iteration, Abstraction & Open Source Software Development."


Today's exercise: A brief Lit Review of each of Lawrence Lessig's books.

The Unexpected Beauty of Interracial Hugging

Wed, 11/05/2008 - 16:03 -- brad

Last night was one of the most memorable of my life, and I'm having a hard time making sense of it all, but I keep coming back to this moment, silly as it may have been:

Walking towards the White House with Emily and Emily, I approached a young black woman talking on her cellphone. She had that perfect combination of features that make a person seem so warm and welcoming: a huge smile, a dance in her step, and big, steady eyes that lock onto yours for a moment longer than you expect. So when she put her hand up for a high five, I pushed it back down and instead wrapped her in a bear hug.

Book Review - "Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement"

Wed, 10/29/2008 - 23:11 -- brad
Over at gnovis, I just posted a book review of Johan Soderberg's "Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software Movement, arguably the only full length book to bring NeoMarxist criticism to bear on the open source software movement. I highly recommend

Procedural Rhetoric: A Quick "Hello World" Case Study

Sun, 10/26/2008 - 19:14 -- brad

This post was originally written for my now discontinued thesis blog "Open Culture: the Future of Data, Code, Government and Culture," which chronicled my work on my masters thesis, "From Coding to Community: Iteration, Abstraction & Open Source Software Development."


A few moments ago I posted some thoughts on Ian Bogost's concept of procedural rhetoric, and whether it might be applied to programming languages. In this post, I'm going to dive right in to some examples.

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