Symbolic links work kind of like shortcuts in Windows.  I have found a couple of very useful scenarios.  The first is my local development environment.  For Linux users, it is best practice to keep all your files in your user folder.  For me, this is mainly to keep my system directories clean and to make backup of my files easier.  This leads me to my first usage:

1. Managing Development Files for Apache

Greetings.  I just stumbled upon a great resource from the Drupal Twitter feed.  The videos for each session of DrupalCon DC are posted on the DrupalCon DC website.  Check em' out!

For those of you that use Skype for business or personal use, I finally fixed my audio issues with Skype 2.0 in Ubuntu.  I was experiencing poor audio quality (low volume, choppy ouput) since I installed it.  The soluction was simple enough.  In the options menu select "Sound Devices" and then uncheck "Allow Skype to Automatically change my mixer levels".  I found that when I change this setting everything works fine.  The audio is now just a crisp as you can expe

If you're like me, you want to know how much time you're actually spending on projects. I've been using a very useful applet for Gnome desktop called Hamster. With Hamster, I'm able to start and stop time tracking on a particular task, enter previous times, and see time charts for days, weeks, and months. Here's a quick screen shot.

I just found this and thought I'd pass it along. Firebug is an extension for the Firefox browser which provides a rich interface for JavaScript debugging among other features. FirePHP is an extension that allows use to leverage Firebug rich interface for PHP debugging. To install FirePHP for Drupal follow the instructions provided by FirePHP HQ.

1. Download and enable devel-module from http://drupal.org/project/devel
2. Create a folder FirePHPCore in the devel-modul-folder (modules/devel)
3. Download the FirePHPCore library from http://www.firephp.org/HQ

Announcing the redesign and relaunch of Shotgun Congress.com. The site has had a number of features added to it. Hopefully, you will find it more community oriented, user friendly, and pleasing to the eye.

In the my experience of Drupal I've found a set of contributed modules that I keep coming back to. The features that they provide are, for the most part, useful on any site. Those modules include the following.

Menus

• Menu Trails - Maintains a breadcrumb based on your menu hierarchy
• DHTML Menus - Quick navigation via js menu


SEO

• Path Auto - Automated and manual URL aliasing

Unfortunately, this was not straight forward task for me, which may be due to my lack of skills. So, in order to ease someone else's pain, I'm posting my method of installing flex builder on Ubuntu 8.10.

1. Download Eclipse 3.3 Europa
   The download link for Europa 3.3 is post worthy in and of itself due to Eclipse Project's troublesome site navigation. I downloaded the Linux (x86/GTK 2) version on to my 32-bit machine (64 bit also available).

If you haven't heard, Adobe recently published the Flex in a Week video series. The bummer for us Linux users is that to watch the videos you need to install AMP, which is not compatible. However, today I found that you can watch the videos if you import the video series xml feed into Miro.

1. Install Miro
2. Go to "Channels"->"Add Channel"

All sites were down today for regular maintenance as well as expansion. Balanced Scale Media is not only more secure, but has greater capacity to meet its recent growth.