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Making the CiviEvent iCal feed show all events

With Green Renters we find the iCal feed from CiviEvent (part of CiviCRM) invaluable to keep track of events and workshops we have coming up, generally we use the feed pulled into our personal iCal and Google calendars for internal organising, currently the feeds aren't available to anyone outside of staff.We also have a variety of views feeds on our website pulling CiviEvents into several places based on various parameters, basically we have several things that need to be confirmed before

Hands on with Lion, 10.7 - Installing

I love living on the cutting edge, many times to my detriment, but it never ceases to dissuade me. So after a brief delay due to being away from home and nowhere near a backup drive (which, of course, is essential before a major system upgrade!) it was time to get my hands dirty.

London Civicon 2011

At the time of writing this website isn't quite finished and maybe you can't quite tell that I love civicrm. I won't go into too much detail of why and what it is now, best you do a bit of searching and find that out for yourself.

Drinking control ad

I've sometimes been critical of drinking control ads in the past, generally wondering how effective they really are, but I really liked this one I found in a London toilet.

Why do I like it? Well:

It's well designed and laid out
The pint of water imitates some beer brands and marketing
The main slogan is a good play on words that may hopefully attract the people the ad is aimed at
The secondary slogan is also slightly clever, even though it's been echoed before.

Norwich

After two weeks with staying with family, we were pretty desperate to get to Norwich and hang out with friends and kick back for a few days. Hence our enthusiasm on the journey there, punctuated by the discovery of a ridiculously cheap pub whilst transferring in Peterborough, that turned from a relaxing drink to a last minute mad dash to catch a train.

Skegness wind farm

The Skegness Wind farm as you can see from the photos, they've located a wind farm in the sea, a great way to reduce NIMBYism.

Joomla to Drupal import

I generally find that in the process of migrating a website to a new system or framework, importing and moving data is the most fraught, frustrating and troublesome part of the process. If you're moving content from a vanilla installation to another vanilla installation you might be in luck, but really, what are the chances of that?

I long ago decided to merge a joomla 1.5 site I have into a new site I was setting up in drupal 7, the content that needed to come across was: