July 2010

Apple iPhone vs. Droid: No One Cares

No, this isn't another boring rehash of technical specs and righteous, ecstatic sermons on "openness". Because honestly, no one really cares. At least, not anyone who actually matters: an average consumer.

This is about the general marketing behind the devices, and why Apple wins and Droid loses.

Look at some of the latest Apple commercials:

Facebook Like Button for Drupal

The Facebook Like button is showing up everywhere. And while it may seem simple to put it on your Drupal nodes and pages, it's a little trickier than normal.

You can't just put a piece of javascript in a .tpl file like you can with the old Facebook Share widget, because you need to dynamically pass the URL of the current page yourself.

But it's easy to accomplish. The following is for Drupal 6.