Drupal
How to Add Theme Settings for Drupal 7
You know that list of checkboxes on the theme settings page that let you turn on and off parts of the theme like the logo or slogan?
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Drupal
Faster 404s with Drupal and ImageCache
Drupal generates nicely styled 404 pages that are easy to customize. And since 404 responses can be served from the page cache, the performance hit...
Drupal
URL Shorteners Must Die
URL shorteners (such as bit.ly and tinyurl) have been called the "herpes of the web". Beyond just link-rot, a public shortening service is per se an...
Drupal
Using JSONP Safely
Learn how to safely implement JSONP in Drupal, avoid common security flaws, and understand its limitations for better cross-domain requests.
Artificial Intelligence
How To Write Multibyte Safe Code With Drupal
Having spent the last 5 months supporting on a multi-language multi-site project, I've learned quite a bit about multibyte safe code, so I thought...
Drupal
Nesting Views like a Mecha-Eagle
As you have probably figured out, I love views. I love teasing out little features that are completely buried and obscure.
Drupal
First Thoughts of Drupal- Part 2
Continuing on with the previous topic of essentially “what is Drupal?” we move on to the discussion of PHP and its importance in being able to build...
Drupal
First thoughts of Drupal
Like any good Gen-Y-er, knowing I would be starting a job at a web development company that specialized in Drupal technology, my first step was to...
SaaS Application
Drupal benchmark results using AB and the simple things we did to get here
I was trolling around the Internet today looking for drupal hosting benchmarks and I actually had a little trouble finding something current.
Drupal
How to Change the Content-Type Meta Tag in Drupal
Learn how to programmatically change the content-type meta tag in Drupal 6 and 7 themes, enhancing your site's HTML5 compliance.
Drupal
Using git-svn to manage standard and non-standard branches
When Webchick announced that Drupal was moving to Git at Drupalcon, our office erupted in pleasure at the news. Lots of great Drupalists are already...
PHP
Facebook API Terminology
The toad just finished a small project involving the Facebook API and by far the most confusing aspect of the project was the terminology regarding...
Drupal
Recursively load nodes from a rich data model
If you've ever worked with a rich data model in drupal you know it can be a pain to load up all the children and parents of a node within the...
Business
How Drupal's cron is killing you in your sleep + a simple cache warmer
A lot of what's written about performance tuning for Drupal is focused on large sites, and benchmarking is often done by requesting the same page...
Artificial Intelligence
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...
Business
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...
Artificial Intelligence
How to Create a New Facebook Network for Your Business
Facebook networks are one of the major ways that it allows people to connect to each other. Networks come in a few different types including: Regions...
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...
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.
Drupal
Trouble with Drupal, MySQL and non UTF-8 formats
Resolving MySQL character encoding issues in a multi-lingual Drupal site using UTF8 settings to ensure proper data storage and display.
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...
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...