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This website is composed of information connected through taxonomy. It is simultaneously a proof-of-concept and a means to allow Agaric to share and store information both within the collective and the world as part of our open documentation philosophy.

Update only Drupal core with Drush

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on February 4, 2012 - 11:30am
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drush up drupal

Quick Intro to Selenium

Submitted by Stefan Freudenberg on January 28, 2012 - 7:57pm

Selenium IDE is a Firefox plugin that does record-and-playback of interactions with the browser. You can use it to assert the presence and content of elements on a web page and check the results of form submissions.

Simple Search Engine Optimization: Getting the Basics Right

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 27, 2012 - 10:10pm
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I recently did some search engine optimization consulting for a local business, Indresano Landscaping, who was not using Drupal or any other Agaric services, and it was a nice opportunity to review the basics of SEO -- and to realize just how much Drupal does for us.

Drupal Plugin for Netbeans 7

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 15, 2012 - 10:23pm
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http://nddt.hollyit.net/

Drush integration. Other changes from 1.5 to 2.0 include:

Duck Programming

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 14, 2012 - 10:33am
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http://unspace.ca/blog/duck-programming/

Duck programming is manageable. It starts with recognizing that while it may be designed to be carried out by people who are not professional coders, it is still programming, and must be managed with the same processes you use to manage code:

Sharing Content Between Drupal 7 sites with Views, XML, Feeds, and XPath Parser

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 13, 2012 - 3:05pm
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after wasting untold hours with Deploy and Services modules, i switched to using views with xml export and Mitchell's xpath parser module on the intake side. Thing is magic, just wish he hadn't disappeared again and had done it in 1/10th the time it took me

Bloody magic, i imagine a lot from feeds, but it does taxonomy terms and images perfectly, and links in the url and title pieces, once it is all exported as plain text in xml (i was more comfortable with creating the dedicated feed than doing the HTML parsing)

On the source site, download the Views Datasource project