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...
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...
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...
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...
The decision to store settings.php in your version control system can be sticky.
Here is a short list of things I check before finishing a new deployment. Database logging row limit (admin/settings/logging/dblog)
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,...
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...
Recently we had an interesting issue with one of our multi-site Drupal hosting deployments; the cron was not running regularly.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I've run into this problem twice. So it was time to figure out a solution...
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.
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.
Sometimes when committing things to svn you want to commit a directory, but ignore all of the files inside it. Here's how.
Working on an Ubercart site recently, I ran into a small snag : some of the collapsible fieldsets weren't opening under IE7 when using the Google...
I just got back from Webvisions here in Portland. There were a number of interesting presentations and conferences are always good to get...