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Going to https://acquia.com/network/forum when not logged in results in this:

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I've been working with drupal and have been a part of the community for a fews years now. Although I may not be the most active member around, I have attended a decent amount of drupal meetups all over Massachusetts and New York City. I've seen what works, and I've seen what doesn't, the reason for this post is to state my opinion on what the purpose and goal of a meetup should be, and how it should be conducted.

As submitted to the Knight News Challenge. (See this proposal on their submission site.)

http://drupal.org/project/persistent_login

4.7 era answer:

Increase cookie lifetime in settings.php with an ini_set command or, recommended, use the persistent login module:

http://jaspan.com/persistent_login_module_1_1#comment-1348

Resolution

Get screenshots of sites from IE browsers:
http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/

Run IE on Mac OS X:
http://www.kronenberg.org/ies4osx/

On Linux:
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Installation

Update for D7:

drupal_flush_all_caches();

drupal_flush_all_caches() should work for just about anything. registry_rebuild() alone did not work in my tests.

Drupal 6

The Drupal function to reset the theme registry is drupal_rebuild_theme_registry (D6).

You can add it to your template.php while developing:

Agaric wanted and now has happily found a way to submit a node and get the create new content form immediately.

And there is a module to do that:
http://drupal.org/project/submit_more

(I recall I wanted it as a button to "save and add new" – I still think that would be a superior user interface.)

Half of Agaric, at least, has installed these plugins for Mozilla-based browsers:

See also this more recent article: http://tiger-fish.com/blog/debugging-drupal-6-xdebug-ubuntu-104-and-eclipse-pdt-step-step

Drupal Eclipse
http://groups.drupal.org/node/8116

See in particular sdboyer's comments on that thread.

We first used this technique from the aquasoft theme on a 4.7 site, MGP-Forum, and just used it again, updated for Drupal 5 and with one enhancement by us.

Here's the D5 version from Aquasoft: