5 days of Drupal challenge
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Last week, Jakub Suchy proposed an action for Drupal developers to contribute 30 minutes each day for 5 days (this week) towards the Drupal community. This can involve anything from providing support ...
loadwatcher: Making your server sane when it thrashes.
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Drupal Camp LA 2011 - recap of an amazing time.
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Over this past weekend (August 6 and 7, 2011), the LA Drupal User Group held its annual Drupal Camp. There were 55 sessions planned over the 2 days by various members of the LA Drupal community (with ...
Drupal meetup in Santa Monica last night
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Thanks to some of my projects being completed ahead of schedule, I was able to go to the Drupal Meetup in Santa Monica (LINK) last night. John Romine had a question for the community on how to alter o...
Entity Caching and Drush - a sweet match.
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I am a big fan of the Display Suite module. Its quite flexible and gets you up and running with a look/feel fairly quickly. One of my favourite features of Display Suite is that you can create various...
Drupal and "Hacking" core - one possible approach
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History: WHY?!?
Over the years, I've seen and heard the phrase "Don't hack core!" mentioned by countless Drupal developers, designers, ...
Finally got some new games and now a Club Nintendo prize
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After years of saving up points, I finally reached the 800 point mark on Club Nintendo. The way it the points work is that for each Wii game that you own, you get 50 points; for each DS game, you get ...
Backing up your MySQL databases - (yet) another approach
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Nearly every place, I work at, a common problem comes up that is not implemented: backing up the database(s). Working with Drupal, I commonly see the usage of Backup and Migrate for backing up databas...
Correcting views queries using views_query_alter
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I like problem solving. My good friend Oliver knows this and recently came to me with a Drupal problem that involved nodes related to other nodes and presenting them to the user in the correct order. ...
Optimizing your site - modules gone wild.
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While working on the one of the more content-heavy websites at my workplace (over 100k nodes consisting of galleries of photos, with some galleries having well over 2000 photos), I had noticed that wh...