Monthly Archives: November 2009

Coastal Bookstores

Kim and I are heading to Coos Bay this week to celebrate Thanksgiving with the Davidson clan.  I am already thinking of books — is that wrong? My favorite thing to do on the Oregon coast, other than spend time with the in-laws and all of our super-adorable nieces, is trawl a couple of my …

November 22, 2009 – 9:59 am | By Andrew | Posted in books, life | Comments Off

Ghanadrew

This month I reopened the blog I wrote on my trip to Ghana in 2006, in an archived state and with a short introduction. The original title of the blog was “Ghanadrew,” which I kept for the archive.  You can read it online at: http://ghanadrew.blogspot.com

November 21, 2009 – 11:44 pm | By Andrew | Posted in writing | Comments Off

Reading Murakami Five Years Later

Kim and I have been reading The Wind-up Bird Chronice, one of Haruki Murakami’s best-known novels, for the past couple of months.  It has taken us a long time to get half-way through the book.  This is my second reading, and I am surprised to find that the author’s style, themes and approach leave me …

November 20, 2009 – 10:47 pm | By Andrew | Posted in books, life | Comments Off

CiviCRM Views 2 integration with a remote CiviCRM database

Note: This is an outdated, unmaintained, archived post. Proceed with caution. The Views integration module released with CiviCRM as of version 2.2.8 works best if your CiviCRM and Drupal databases reside on the same server and are accessible by the same username and password. However, there are cases when this will not be so: Your CiviCRM …

November 13, 2009 – 10:14 am | By Andrew | Posted in technology | Comments Off

Linux: Remove all empty files from a directory

One-liner to remove all empty files from a directory: % ls -s | grep -e ‘^ 0′ | sed ‘s/^…//’ | xargs -n1 rm -v Or these two, suggested by Jameson Williams on the Portland Linux/Unix Group (http://www.pdxlinux.org/): 1. find . -empty -maxdepth 1 -delete 2. find * -prune -empty -exec rm {}\;

November 13, 2009 – 10:14 am | By Andrew | Posted in technology | Comments Off

Problems and Solutions to Problems: Views 2, CiviCRM, and Drupal 6

The following is a quick run-down of problems you might run into using Views 2 integration with CiviCRM 2.2.3 and Drupal 6 (or higher): Update (11/20/2011): This is an outdated, unmaintained post. Proceed with caution. Update (12/24/09): I recently added a new issue to this list, after updating a site to Drupal 6.15: CCK fields …

November 13, 2009 – 10:10 am | By Andrew | Posted in technology | Comments Off

Vim for Thunderbird: Muttator extension External Editor extension

In my quest for the Holy Grail of daily Internet use (IE, how to get vim-style keybindings and modular editing with everything), I finally — at 6 a.m. this morning — was delivered. Update (11/28/2011): This post is out of date and no longer maintained. Here are the steps I suggest as a method for recovering …

November 13, 2009 – 9:54 am | By Andrew | Posted in technology | Comments Off

Even Better GNU Screen

GNU Screen is one of my favorite applications because of its simplicity and usefulness. And, as a fairly new user, I am constantly discovering features and awesome ways to interface it with my systems. Following are some tips and links I’ve picked up that have vastly improved my screen experience, including how to save region …

November 13, 2009 – 9:46 am | By Andrew | Posted in technology | Comments (1)

CiviCRM 2.2.3: Fatal error in custom code after upgrade

The upgrade to CiviCRM 2.2.3 changed the sequence of data returned by the civicrm_contact_get() function in api/v2/Contact.php. If you’ve written any code against the CiviCRM API that uses this function, then 2.2.3 will probably break it. Errors will likely show up anywhere that you depend on the array returned by civicrm_contact_get(). You will need to …

November 3, 2009 – 10:05 am | By Andrew | Posted in technology | Comments Off