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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.

CTags and Vim

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on July 3, 2011 - 8:22am
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Thanks in part to
http://sachachua.com/blog/2008/07/eclipse-to-emacs-navigating-your-source-tree/

Set-up:

(If not already installed: sudo apt-get install exuberant-ctags)

ctags -R -f ctagstags --languages=php --langmap=php:.module.php.inc.engine.profile .

In .vimrc,

set tags=ctagstags;/

In .bashrc

Deploying the Agaric way

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on March 18, 2010 - 3:49pm
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Background

Where we come from

After journeying from Capistrano to Vlad we eventually use pure Rake tasks for our deployment. While Vlad was a great improvement it also had downsides. Lack of feedback from tasks made it hard to tell why they failed. Also the most interesting feature of those deployment tools is not required in our case: The ability to roll out to many servers at the same time.

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.

Paste as plain text in Mac OS X

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on February 28, 2010 - 1:16pm
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Going through ClipMenu with Paste as Plain Text set to Command-clicking on the item is an acceptable workaround for now (and attempts with Applescript failed).

Creating a random password... the Drupal way

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on June 1, 2008 - 4:23am
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Lesson of the day: don't reinvent Drupal functions.

Building Beauty presentation documentation and links

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on October 15, 2011 - 11:40pm
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The Site

  • http://daniel-libeskind.com/
  • Horizontal continuum for all sections
  • Press request and access functionality with Organic Groups
  • Complex, structured project content type
  • News, press releases, etc.
  • Events listing
  • About Daniel Libeskind section, including sub-project listing with galleries
  • Project, one-by-one galleries
  • PDF Generator
  • Mobile version ...including for BlackBerry

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

A WordPress Agency Moves Away from Wordpress

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 11, 2012 - 2:16pm
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Despite being into Drupal and believing in the software and the community, one tends to know the faults of one's own software better than the faults of other software. So the image of WordPress is something that just works, and is able to do seamless upgrades version after version, etc.

But, obviously, it's not right for everything, and its fans can realize that, too.

Shaping Drupal's Future (presentation description)

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 10, 2012 - 6:41pm
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Drupal does not belong to the Drupal Association. It does not belong to Node One, Phase Two, Chapter Three, Four Kitchens, Palantir, Acquia, or even Agaric. It does not belong to Dries— except the name. It belongs to you, and every other person who steps up to claim it, equally.

What does it mean to take ownership?

Set up RubyGems and RVM on Ubuntu 11

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on September 20, 2011 - 7:45am
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This makes the gem command work:

sudo apt-get install rubygems1.8

But more is needed...

sudo apt-get install curl ruby

We already have Git installed; if you don't you may want to throw a git-core in there. (And if you already have curl installed, you can leave it out of the apt-get command-- or put it in, it will work either way.

How to become a channel operator

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on March 24, 2010 - 9:46am
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How to become (or make someone else) a channel operator, for a channel you have registered: use the form "/msg chanserv op #chatroom nickname", for instance:

/msg chanserv op #agaric ben-agaric

This will op people in channels where you have this permission, which would seem to include unofficial channels.

For registered channels you have to be the one who registered (or maybe other things), and you need to be a registered user yourself.