Drupal
Repositioning node comments
A strange quirk in Drupal 6 hard-codes comment rendering into the node module. This makes it quite difficult to reposition comments, for instance...
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Deployment with Capistrano Part 2: Drush integration
In my last post, a basic intro to to running cap deploy was presented. Now, let's look at some more advanced scenarios. (See Part 1 for the actual...
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Whitehouse.gov re-launches on Drupal
If you have ever spent any time around software development, (especially here in Portland with our amazing open-source community) you'll know that...
Drupal
Capistrano: Drupal deployments made easy, Part 1
I'm a big fan of having an automated deployment process. It's really the web development analog to the "one step build process", as described in the...
Drupal
SimpleTest 6.x gets e-mail capture!
The latest 6.x-2.9 release of SimpleTest includes a backport of the e-mail capture feature from D7. This means you can finally unit test e-mail...
Drupal
The Power of Yes (within Frameworks)
Of all the powerful words in any language assertion is in my opinion the absolute most powerful. With affermative language we are able to create...
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iPhone video streaming from Drupal's file system
It's well known the iPhone can play H.264 video. With tools like ffmpeg, hooking this up to Drupal ought to be simple, right? Here are a few snags I...
Drupal
Bulk generating menu hierarchies
If you have ever needed to bulk generate menu items in Drupal (I used this for theming some drop-downs), here is a snippet to accomplish it. The...
JQuery
Multiple dynamic tabs in Brightcove 3
This week I had the wonderful opportunity to work on an interesting problem that as far as I can tell hasn't been documented. The call came out that...
Drupal
An unexpected occurence with Git, how it made our life easier this time
In my experiences in the past working with external contractors is often a pain, especially the final merge where you try to incorporate all their...
Business
I like to be spoiled, but not too much
First of all, let me preface this post by saying: I love web standards, I love browsers that support web standards, I love most internet browsers...
Drupal
Fun with stakeout.rb
Having only left Rubyville a couple weeks ago there are still a lot of Ruby-based utilities that I still find incredibly handy. One such utility that...
Drupal
Converting from Brightcove 2 and loading arbitrary videos
Over the last two weeks I've been working on a project to convert one of our client's websites to Brightcove 3 players. As I am quite new to drupal...
Drupal
Drupal Views and custom search features
A recent project required the use of a view to create a custom search page. The view worked as expected, with exposed filters providing the multiple...
Drupal
Stage-specific Drupal settings with local_settings.php
The decision to store settings.php in your version control system can be sticky.
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Drupal Deployment Checklist
Here is a short list of things I check before finishing a new deployment. Database logging row limit (admin/settings/logging/dblog)
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Trouble with Drupal, MySQL and non UTF-8 formats
I just figured out a fix for an annoyingly circuitous, tortuous, and baffling MySQL problem. I am not yet an expert of back-end system configuration,...
Drupal
Drupal 6 Theme Test-driver
Reading through the Weekly Drupal feed, I found a linked site that is pretty rad. Being primarily a developer, I am always interested in exploring...
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A Drupal version of chicken vs. egg: external API content fetching and cron failures
Recently we had an interesting issue with one of our multi-site Drupal hosting deployments; the cron was not running regularly.
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Drupal/AJAX: Exercise caution when using special foreign characters
I was recently working on a Brazilian Drupal 6.x site that uses CCK forms and needed some functionality to map a dropdown select list of states to...
Drupal
Drupal 'Access Denied' on all pages
Ran into an interesting little snag this morning - a client's Drupal site was spitting out "Access Denied" errors for all page loads by anonymous...
Drupal
Automated CVS checkouts of Drupal Core + Contrib
If you've built out more than a few Drupal projects, you've probably gone through the same song & dance a number of times - find the most recent...
Drupal
Using PHP/MySQL w/Drupal to update missing Google Geocode data
We recently needed to fill missing geocode values in a project's database. Using some PHP magic and taking advantage of hook_cron() this is how we...
Social Media Club Portland Re-launches
Last night, nearly 90 people packed into The Agency for the official kickoff presentation with the Social Media Club - Portland.
Drupal
Autocomplete, clearing form values and Drupal form fields
Some browsers like to be helpful and help by remembering certain form fields. I was having a problem with Firefox auto-populating my some of my form...