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Can views template files go in a subdirectory of a theme?

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on December 16, 2009 - 4:04pm
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Yes! And not just a single views folder, but directories under that for view name and even, beneath that, display name. Dividing by view name is I think as far as we'll want to go.

See:
Organizing your Views templates
http://drupal.org/node/430980

Drupal Community Participation Resources

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on December 12, 2009 - 1:13pm
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Initial Drupal community experiences and getting past the "I suck" threshold

Includes an excellent drawing representing her first five minutes in the Drupal community, which is almost everyone's first experience on IRC:

Diaries of a Core Maintainer #6: A tale of two developers

A groups.drupal.org wiki page that needs a lot of love:
How to make it possible to contribute to the Drupal project with small tasks in a few minutes?

Add CSS to a Drupal page through template.php

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on December 11, 2009 - 4:05am
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http://api.drupal.org/api/function/drupal_add_css/6

Adding styles through the API: How to use the drupal_add_css function to add a CSS file
http://drupal.org/node/225868

Similar for JavaScript:

Make modifications to a sidebar block menu that primarily mirrors top-level drop-down menu

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on December 10, 2009 - 7:11pm
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Using the magic of menu block (dev) and menu attributes.

theming menus
drupal menu theming

Another great reason to use Menu Block - the menu block alter function.

Compare two strings in a bash script

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on December 7, 2009 - 5:51pm
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bash script compare text

if [ $var == "value" ]
then
echo is the same
fi

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/209/bournebash-shell-scripts-string-comparison/

(Numbers are -eq)

Usability improvements for Drupal 7 (or 8 by the time i get to it)

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on December 7, 2009 - 5:48pm
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UI improvements for d7 installation
- take out language page. it's pointless.
- JQuery duplicate the time zones for the selected country (if any) at the top of the time zone selection list

Set your name in

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on December 7, 2009 - 5:46pm
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git config --global user.name "My Name"
git config --global user.email "me@example.com"

http://www.lixo.org/archives/2008/06/26/git-tip-set-your-identification-and-colours/

http://help.github.com/git-email-settings/

Error (unexpected code 0) trying to copy large file from Mac OS X hard drive to external hard drive

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on December 7, 2009 - 5:44pm
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http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=475868

The other option is to use MACFuse on your Mac, and install ntfs-3g. Then format the USB drive on the Windows machine at NTFS.

This way you can use random windows machines, your Mac will be able to read the USB drive as a Windows NTFS filesystem, and you can store 4GB+ files on it.

JavaScript Bookmarklet to open a web site's path in a new window with a different base URL

Submitted by dhakimzadeh on December 7, 2009 - 5:39pm
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This is useful when manually checking each page on a site to the corresponding page on a replacement site, as the final check before taking the new site live.

Starting with the basic Drupal.org documentation-style JavaScript, and hacked at it:

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