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What's in a framework, experiences from Rails and Drupal

by Chuck Vose, Web Developer

I've now been working professionally in Drupal for a year and have learned a lot about it; I have some patches into contrib but I've not really done much with core other than some simpletests I was too shy to commit at Drupalcon and some comments trying to help people out on d.o. Prior to my stint as Drupal programmer I was a hardcore Ruby on Rails developer for about 4 years. Over the last two years in particular I've learned a lot about frameworks and I'd like to share an observation about which framework feels right to me for which situations and why. Read More…

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Nesting Views like a Mecha-Eagle

by Chuck Vose, Web Developer

As you have probably figured out, I love views. I love teasing out little features that are completely buried and obscure. Nesting Views is one of my favorite new travesties; not sure if it's ready for Drupal for Evil, but it's certainly not kosher. If birds can nest, why can't I? image by Benjamin Verdonck, reported by apartmenttherapy.com Read More…

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Making your clients love Drupal's menu system as much as I love candy

by Chuck Vose, Web Developer

NOTE: Apologies for the gap, I said I would post on Monday but well, I decided to get married instead. So there. You might be saying to yourself, "So Chuck, D7UX is all well and good right, but I'm running D6 right now. How can your wisdom possibly enhance my life and vitality?" Well, you're in luck friend, for my limited stints into D7 have left me craving more of that optimized UX goodness and blogging is a side-effect of learning for me. Today, not in fact monday like I had promised, not like my promise really means anything to my adoring audience anyways, I want to talk about getting users around Drupal in the fastest way possible. In addition, I want to talk about some roles and permissions that will result in less training and less support calls. Read More…

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Do your clients send you presents? If not, maybe we can figure it out together, lets talk about D7UX.

by Chuck Vose, Web Developer

Do your clients love you with such a furious passion that it borders on problematic? Do you find new customers calling you and saying things like, "I must have your services! My friend has been bugging me all week to call you. Seriously, I just want him to stop camping out on my lawn. It's scaring the children." Read More…

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Drupal snippets #1 (Views exposed filters, F5 tweaks)

by Chuck Vose, Web Developer

While I'm certain that I could never work up to the standards of Peter Cooper his "Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don't Need Separate Posts" series was a great help to me when I was a ruby developer. You can see the original here: IRTTDNSP #1. I've not found similar for the Drupal community but I believe a lot of the things I do during the week are interesting but not at all worthy of a complete post of their own. So this will be my attempt to categorize and commit those very thoughts to memory. I hope that even one of these things sparks something for you. Read More…

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Drupal benchmark results using AB and the simple things we did to get here

by Chuck Vose, Web Developer

I was trolling around the Internet today looking for benchmarks and I actually had a little trouble finding something current. Dries has one comparing D6 on PHP4 vs D6 on PHP5 but that was clearly ages ago. I also realize that this is going to be out of style in about 12 minutes, will probably be fraught with contention, and generally mocked by everyone; but in the interest of those few souls out there that really actually just want to know what is reasonable to expect from production hardware under some load I want to post these stats anyways. Read More…

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Using git-svn to manage standard and non-standard branches

by Chuck Vose, Web Developer

When Webchick announced that Drupal was moving to Git at Drupalcon 2010, our office erupted in pleasure at the news. Lots of great Drupalists are already using Git and there's even an unofficial Github branch of Drupal for your branching and stashing pleasure Github mirror. However, Metal Toad Media has been an SVN shop for a long time we still have a lot of processes that use SVN, so we elected unanimously to do a gradual rollout: new sites get a private repo on Github, old sites just use git-svn. Looking back I wondering why we ever delayed. Read More…

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Drupalcon '10 Party Schedule

by Chuck Vose, Web Developer

Every conference is better with events, but finding them can be such a pain when you're trying to absorb all the info in the seminars. So this year I'm setting up a calendar and I'm hoping people will help create it. If you have information that you think should be on the schedule please send me a tweet at @drupalconparty, email at vosechu@metaltoad.com, or visit me at the Metal Toad Media booth (I may not be there very often though). Hope to see you all there! iCal: http://is.gd/bvHJx HTML: http://is.gd/bvHQk Read More…

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How to reconnect a bluetooth mouse/keyboard in OS X or Windows 7

by Chuck Vose, Web Developer

Okay, as mundane as it sounds there are a lot of articles around the internet that are fundamentally misunderstanding the simplicity of this request: how do I reconnect my bluetooth device after it's been disconnected from being in my laptop bag or whatever. Read More…

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