Mirroring a website using HTTrack
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At my workplace, there are often times when I am *not* working with Drupal (contrary to what people might think ^_^). From working on server tuning to writing up small scripts to do batch tasks to sma...
Presenting the Display Suite module at the Los Angeles downtown Drupal Meetup
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On May 17, I did an inpromptu presentation on the Display Suite module for Drupal 7 written by Kristof De Jaeger (also known as swentel). For those that don't know, Display Suite allows you to take fu...
5 years of Drupal
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Disclaimer: This is a long-ish ramble with poor usage of the English language.
5 years ago today, I started my first job out of university as a systems programmer / web developer at zinc Roe Design. I...
Apache Solr and Ubuntu: Multiple Instances
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At CalArts, I have wanted to move the search functionality on our Drupal powered websites into something better for a long time. We have been using the Lucene API (which is lucene search ported to PHP...
Migrating Content part 3: Nodes with your own field handlers
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(Updated June 4, 2011 - address new handler requirements with Migrate 2.1 by removing stdClass)
In this finale (?) on using the Migrate module, I will go through how to go about writing your very own ...
Using the JQuery UI Date Picker for event navigation
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For a site I am currently creating in Drupal 7, I have a bunch of events and I need to show a view of the content in a non-traditional calendar way (Listing of events for a week, a pager to go back an...
Optimizing your site query by adding indexes
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I have the pleasure of working on CalArt's Photo Archive. From the conversion as a flat-file website into Drupal, the site has come a long way. And for a mid-sized website (a little over 100k nodes) r...
Question and Answer: How do I let another module theme a particular form?
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At the Los Angeles Drupal Meetup last night (http://groups.drupal.org/node/135774), John Romine had a particularly interesting question that he later requested I blog about. His question was:
I have a...
Migrating Content Part 2: Nodes
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(Updated November 10, 2011 - Updated information about file actions. Thank you Patrick Thurmond!)
(Updated June 4, 2011 - File Handler Compatibility with Migrate 2.1)
(Updated June 8, 2011 - Image to ...
Presenting the Migrate module at the Los Angeles downtown Drupal Meetup
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This evening, I had the pleasure of once again presenting at a Los Angeles Drupal meetup. This time, I changed focus from showcases and module demonstrations to a module howto. The migrate module is f...