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To be used with care. Pages are complete only when they meet the posting guidelines.

Turning on Drupal performance caching (to see if overzelous regular caching will take a break)

So still trying to find out why the binary logs for our WSF2008 development site fill up the alloted disk space and shut down MySQL once every couple of days or, as yesterday, twice a day.

Searched for "drupal keeps refreshing cache" and found a wonderful pro-Drupal pitch with this reminder:

Caching

Menu system to be comprehensible in Drupal 6

Never forget: I have found it easier to rewrite from scratch than fully understand/fix

– chx, aka Karoly Negyesi, on the Drupal 5 (and earlier) menu system.

Resolution

Box Burritos

In an astounding reversal, Agaric Design Collective has come out in favor of food patents.

The Agaric Box Burrito (patent pending) is a breakthrough in food enjoyment technology.

Six sides of tortilla wrap, laid out in "Make A Box" of Square One TV fame. What could be simpler?

Some dispute that this brilliant idea/discovery is the sole property of Dan Hakimzadeh. The event was prefaced by a strange occurrence that morning in which the growling stomachs of Benjamin Melançon and Mr. Hakimzadeh apparently communicated across the office.

How to print views from a theme: use PHP to insert views directly into a template

This is useful for custom home pages (page-front.tpl.php), and can also be used in custom modules that provide pages.

Not the answer! This is for putting a view directly into a node: http://drupal.org/project/insert_view

There are at least two ways to print a view directly from your theme, custom module page, or PHP input format page:

When you accidentally overwrite a localization language and freak out because the whole site is Arabic

This kind of thing can happen if you don't read the clear documentation on how to add languages and how NOT to overwrite existing languages as you improve your multilingual Drupal site.

If it's your custom language, yeah, that sucks if you didn't back up your database nor export the language.

Abortive experiment with MySite

I think Ken Rickards is one of the most important people to Drupal today.

This was a turn the module on in a very busy situation to see what it did. Agaric has not had time to learn to use it the way one should with a module. So we've turned it off. But here's some notes, from an absolute first-time user's perspectiev:

I love that it gives the opportunity to track by taxonomy vocabulary term.

It only lists the first 10 terms alphabetically, though. I think all can be reached by the autocomplete field, but that should be made explicit.

Overide Panels CSS

panels override css

Due to this great code, it should just work. But it doesn't.

function panels_get_layout($layout, $content) {
  $output = theme($layout['theme'], check_plain($layout['css_id']), $content);

Drupal won't set values to NULL with db_query %d system

removed bug from taxonomy_location_save that was put in while trying, and failing, to put in a NULL value with a Drupal query

Set Drupal input filters by content type

We'll give the solution up front:
Filter by node type module

This is really really useful for setting up wikis that you don't want to take over the whole site:

http://agaricdesign.com/note/turn-freelinking-off-most-content-types

The search for it:
input format by content type

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