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...
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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...
Artificial Intelligence
Metal Toad Media gears up for the Primetime Emmy® Awards show with Emmys.com
It's almost time -- Sunday, September 20 at 8 PM on CBS -- for TVs finest to come together for the Primetime Emmy® Awards.
Drupal
Stage-specific Drupal settings with local_settings.php
The decision to store settings.php in your version control system can be sticky.
Artificial Intelligence
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...
Artificial Intelligence
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.
PHP
Facebook Usernames Not Available for All Pages (yet)
By now you may have heard about the frenzy for grabbing a personalized URL for Facebook. Within 15 minutes of the service being available Friday...
Artificial Intelligence
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...
Artificial Intelligence
Twitter look out! Here comes Facebook Stream
Facebook just announced a public API to the Facebook Stream (aka Facebook updates).
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...
Business
What Twitter worth? I'm talking cash here...
I just read an article by @marshallk (thanks to @turoczy for the link) asking
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...
Artificial Intelligence
Authorize.net is deprecating their SSL 2.0 Protocol
I recently received email notification that Authorize.net will be deprecating their SSL 2.0 Protocal the week of March 16 - 20, 2009. All of our...
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...
Drupal
Validating multiple drupal form fields and only outputting one erro
I've run into this problem twice. So it was time to figure out a solution...
Drupal
DrupalCampPDX '09 is coming! Are you ready?
The new year is upon us, and with a fresh install of the calendar comes the opportunity to try and recreate the magic that was DrupalCamp 08.
Drupal
How to Add a Field to the Drupal Contact form
Ever wish you could use the existing Drupal Contact module as your sitewide contact form and just add a field or two? You can and it's really easy.
PHP
Getting command line access to PHP and MySQL running MAMP on OSX
If you have MAMP installed on your Mac OS X box, you're probably going to want command line access to those applications at some point. Assuming...
Installing FTP on a CentOS 5 system
I recently had to install a FTP client on one of our live servers. This was a first time occurrence for me, so I thought it might be useful to...
DevOps
VMWare: Recovering from running out of disk space on the Host machine
If you've ever run out of disk space you know what a pain that is. However when you run out of diskspace on the host machine running VMware, things...