Martian Thoughts on Design

Just saw that Adobe has added support for HTML5 and CSS3 to Dreamweaver CS5. You can find the extension at Adobe Labs.

The extension adds support for CSS3 and some HTML5 tags in Live View, HTML5 and CSS3 code hinting, HTML5 starter documents, plus some other things. I’m expecting the features in this extension to improve in the future as more HTML5 features get rolled into browsers.

I’m really looking forward to getting a chance to play with this. With that, and the additions of Drupal and WordPress support, Dreamweaver CS5 looks to become quite a useful tool for doing web development.

We began discussing what an interesting month April has been in Christmas in April, Part I. Now we’ll get into what’s happening with Apple.

Apple kicked off the month with the official release of the iPad. I personally think the device is a huge deal. I can definitely see where it would fit in with my day to day activities.

Then this week, the released the long awaited MacBook Pro. As I said in the previous article, I’ve been holding out for this machine for a long time, and I’m super excited to get one. read more »

This is a pretty exciting month for the tools we use in our business, and technology in general. Monday, Adobe annouced CS5 and Microsoft finalized Visual Studio 2010. Last week Apple released the iPad, and this week it released the new Core i5 & Core i7 MacBook Pros.

For me, it is beyond time to upgrade my systems, so this is about to be a very expensive month. I’ve literally been waiting on these new MacBook Pros for two years, ever since I read about these new processors from Intel. And with this new computer, it is also time to upgrade the Adobe software, so this year’s tech budget is pretty much gone.

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We’re continuing on with the tutorials for the Drupal Multi-Site configuration that I set up on my Mac. All the domain and directory structure is based on that tutorial, so if you’ve done something slightly different, you’ll need to adjust as appropriate.

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Today, like many Tech aficionados, I was eagerly following the posts about Apple’s new iPad. And I must say that I’m quite interested in the device.

First let me say that I was a little taken aback when I looked over at Yahoo’s Tech Blog, and those guys panned it. They pointed out all the things that the rumor mill said it would do that it didn’t. Sorry dudes, there is only so much tech you can cram into a device this size without blowing a massive whole in your unit cost.

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Today I’m going to talk briefly about technology.  All this business about tablets, netbooks and e-readers is really generating lots of hype in the press.  Personally I’d love to have an e-reader or tablet, so I can stop filling up my bookshelf.  I’ve been preparing myself for a black and white screen, until the technology improves.  But then I saw Qualcomm’s Mirasol color screen, so now I’m hoping for good color offerings in e-readers/tablet soon.

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Hey, just saw this posting at MSNBC. It seems that the website for the White House is moving to Drupal. At the end of the article, it makes reference to the background technology being Drupal.

AWESOME!

Found this great post on Configuring cron on Mac OS X Server 10.5.x in the Drupal documentation. I’d been wanting to do that with my original post on Building a Drupal Multi-Site development environment, but I hadn’t had time to figure it out.

The title of the page at Drupal says “Mac OS X Server“, but there’s nothing that says you can’t use this technique on OS X Client, and I believe it will work on everything 10.4.x and up.

So I’m going to show you how to tie it into the Multi-Site setup I created on my local machine for the previous blog post.   read more »

I’ve been working on understanding the Drupal CMS for the past couple of weeks, and it can be a little bit confusing.  As usual with an open source project most of the documentation focuses on Unix/Linux or Windows.  There is some good information for Mac users, but for me, it seemed a little disjointed and was hard to bring together for a coherent setup.  This is my attempt to explain a complete setup, from start to finish, for doing web development on my local machine running OS X 10.4.  I’m completely new to Drupal, so if I could have done something better here, please let me know.

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Hi, this is Michael.

Please be patient as we get our blog and running.  We’ll be posting new information soon, and apply our own touch to the site in the coming weeks/months.

We at Martian Graphix hope to provide some interesting and useful tidbits on design, web development, and technology in general.