Disaster Comm Ohio

It's important to keep your site and modules up-to-date if you want to keep control of your page. There were some minor security fixes in 7.12. I haven't noticed any issues post-upgrade.

In an effort to make source code included in projects more readable we've added Syntax Highlighting.

Syntax highlight code surrounded by the <pre class="brush: lang">...</pre> tags, where lang is one of the following language brushes: diff, jscript, java, perl, php, python, ruby. See the site for additional help.

For example:

There were two hurdles impeding me from finishing my writeup of the Telemetry demo: how to present the various code examples in a visibly-pleasing manner and how to easily draw schematics that are accurate and communicate clearly.

The first problem will be solved later using a syntax mark-up module, the second is tonight's topic.

I saw images like the one below and wanted to make something similar.

I read a great interview last year on how the Red Cross and the LA Fire Department use twitter for gathering information about an emerging disaster situation. Take a visit to http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/03/social-media-red-cross-lafd.html and watch the short interviews. Brian Humphrey performs a much needed, but often un-staffed, role in disaster response that I call Disaster Intelligence. In our networked age, a tremendous amount of data floods in and can overwhelm the disaster response manager.

If one examines the HTML source on a recent project (http://www.disastercommohio.org/?q=node/33) they will notice that I included a lot of CSS inline in the content. This mostly illustrates where I'm at the "knows enough to be dangerous" stage. I've skimmed a couple of books on CSS and know what effects I want to present in the page, but I'm not smart enough to integrate them into the Drupal Themes.