Vancurious Blog

Christmas

Poinsetta

Each year around this time, the supermarkets start stocking the Poinsetta, and many a fund raiser has benefited from this festive plant.   Even though we think of it as a flower, it is really a plant with the top leaves turning red.  The colors of the bracts (modified leaves) are created through photoperiodism, meaning that they require darkness (at least fourteen hours at a time for 6–8 weeks in a row) to change color.

Christmas

Count-down: the Advent Calendar

Read about the history of the Advent Calendar - the unabashed gamification of waiting for Christmas!
Geek Gathering

Drupal 10: Getting started: basic guide to create a blog post

Out of the box, Drupal will have two types of content you can easily add to your site:

  • Articles, which are the most suitable for your blog posts
  • Basic Page, which you can use for pages that you create one time and do not have to change much.  Note that 'static' in this case does not mean you cannot change it

     

Art Admiration

Reading the art of the Pacific Northwest coast

I recently read Hilary Steward's "Looking At Indian Art of the Northwest Coast"  which opened my eyes in how to parse this type of art, and I wanted to share the basics of how to recognize the elegant layout, the musical composition where white space and shape provide balance in an almost Escher-esque repetition of form.  Below is a small preview of the basic concepts, quoting from the book:

Art Admiration

Eastside Culture Crawl 2023 - Parker Street Studios

As always, the Parker Street Studios opened its doors for the Eastside Culture Crawl.  Parker Street Studios is a 100-year-old Vancouver landmark, hosting 4 floors of artists diverse in style and discipline. This 152,000 square foot industrial building was originally home to the Restore Mattress factory and now features 110 studios for over 200 artists, designers, photographers, woodworkers, and more all creating under one roof.

Geek Gathering

Drupal 10: Novice Guide - using content types

I am a recent Wordpress refuge and have tried to figure out how Drupal works.  Here are some things I've learned.

Drupal uses content types where you can define three things:

Geek Gathering

Drupal 10: How to migrating a Wordpress blog to Drupal

I'd had enough of the Wordpress limitations and decided to take the plunge for the site you are on right now: vancurious.ca.  I'm writing this hoping it will help you,  as I wished someone had laid out for me what the steps were.  I found the module documentation on the drupal.org site not very helpful and a lot of other information out of date.