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Jesse Payne

Drupal Camp Toronto 2012

November 19, 2012
My first Drupal Camp Toronto experience is sadly over. There was a whole lot to absorb and although I found that I did learn a few new things, the most beneficial part of the conference for me was the inspiration I gained from others. I met many kindred spirits and future partners in crime. It was really interesting to learn about some of the initiatives that others are pushing forward. Overall I would say that Drupal Camp Toronto 2012 was a great event and really well organized. I would... Read more

Introduction to Rules in D7

October 15, 2012
What can I say? rules are a priceless asset when it comes to customizing the functionality of a Drupal site without having to actually code anything. If you embrace them, you will live happier and stress free. Okay, probably an impossible statement considering our field of work, but I have found that knowing how to take advantage of rules effectively inside and out gives me a huge advantage I didn't feel I had before. I have been able to save time, build complex systems faster, and most of all... Read more

Views integration with the relation module

January 24, 2012
introduction Relations is an awesome new module for Drupal 7. It essentially allows you to link any entities together and which are themselves fieldable. I can think of limitless ways in which this can be super useful. However, the topic of this blog posting is not to heap praise on relations and explain in detail what they can be used for; I'll let you discover that yourselves. The intention is rather to give a practical example of how to create views of separate entity types tied together... Read more

Chase Paymentech Module for Ubercart

September 30, 2010
Announcing the uc_chasepaymentech module for Ubercart!This is a module that adds Chase Paymentech hosted checkout as a payment method to Ubercart. There isn't currently a module that integrates Ubercart with Chase paymentech. Although Chase based their hosted checkout on Authorize.net's framework, their specific implementation and methods of response verification are slightly different in functionality. There is not a sensible way to go about modifying the Authorize.net module that ships with... Read more

Ubercart as a donation system + Moneris as a Payment Gateway

July 16, 2010
Hopefully this blog entry will help a few people overcome some of the hurdles in setting up a donations system. We are a drupal shop so all the following is for drupal 6. In this case the client simply wanted to have a way to collect donations from supporters of their political campaign. The only real constraint was that it needed to integrate with the Moneris payment gateway system. I was looking at creating a custom donation system and integration to Moneris, but in the end opted to use... Read more

The "CLUMPS" module

June 24, 2010
Clumps is a module that I have just written and will eventually be releasing. Its currently about 90% finished. The name was hastily chosen from a google search for a synonym to section. It is also still up for debate so feel free to comment if you can think of a good name.All relatively good ideas start with a relatively complex, or annoying, problem.Protagonist:A site was required that split off into two separate sides with different paths say /sideone and /sidetwo. Most content is to be... Read more

tinyMCE: Adding css styles to menu style pull-down

March 30, 2010
As designers, something that we all wish at one point or another is for non-technical users to be able to style their contributed content according to the styles we have defined in style sheets. Users usually want to be able to easily do this as well. If a WYSIWYG is involved it often means a user will be selecting colours and fonts that will end up inline with the element; hard coded in the HTML like . It can also be time consuming to have to go and style everything a user inputs if it doesn't... Read more

Jesse Payne

Senior Drupal Developer

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Jesse is a very enthusiastic and confident individual who graduated with a degree in engineering physics. He has accumulated 9+ years of software design experience including strong backgrounds in embedded software and multifaceted interface design. Jesse has a proven history of innovation and uses his excellent communication skills to relate ideas and solve problems. Jesse also is the founder of vegetablepatch.ca, a local organization aimed at organic living within the city of Ottawa. They take under-used, urban, green spaces and turn them into beautiful and healthy vegetable gardens.