Tagged: Drupal Planet

Pantheon Demonstration Screencast and Early Customer Program Thanks to all of you waiting patiently while we are heads-down building Pantheon. We’re just back from Copenhagen, where we gave a sneak peek at what we’ve been up, and we wanted to share that demo with you as well. You can watch our screencast here: Pantheon Copenhagen Demo Screencast from Pantheon on Vimeo.

After having seen DrupliBacon and DrupliCake (there are other great adaptations of the Druplicon as well!), I decided I wanted to get some creative juices flowing this weekend. I present, DrupliGolf!

Better Know a Module: Menu Block (Part I) | Palantir.net

The video here is a short (14:00 min) summary of the upgrade of himerus.com to Drupal 7, and also a quick look into the Gamma sub-theme, a new inclusion in the Drupal 7 branch of the Omega theme. Thanks for taking the time to view it, the new site, and any feedback on the Gamma subtheme moving forward!!read more

I was recently trying to figure out exactly how long my users' sessions were lasting on an existing Drupal site that I had built. Generally it seemed like users were remaining logged in for an extremely lengthy period of time. I did some research and finally discovered that this setting is actually configured in the default settings.php file that ships with Drupal. There's a line in the settings file that initially reads: ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime',  2000000); read more

You have to agree that Drupal admin screens can be pretty gnarly to interact with. If you want a better looking Modules listing page and if you want a tidier node add and node edit form... Then read on and watch the video at the end.OK. I Pride myself on being HIPP and knowing about the newest modules and the coolest modules. I can not explain how I missed the MODULE FILTER module.read more

Late in the code sprint the last day of DrupalCON in Copenhagen, there was a lot of discussion going on about the upgrade path in Drupal 7.  Questions of how to handle certain aspects of the process and prevent horrible flaming death when upgrading a site and its contrib modules.  Upgrade processes, much like data migration, often become a sticky problem.   Right now that stickiness has literally stuck the release of Drupal 7.

How to create presentations that entertain & inform. I had the opportunity to present to a local organization in Salt Lake City on the techniques Lullabot uses for making kick ass presentations and how we streamline our presentations so they're reusable amongst our teaching staff. Watch the video below and download the slides.

In part 1 of our Maestro module overview we explained the different task types that we have available in the module. One of these task types is the Interactive Task and this blog post will provide more detail on this task type and how to create your own custom function for it to use. In an interactive workflow driven process, there are many times you need to present information or request information to a user. Examples of this would include:

Wow! Code-Free Drupal Layout with Skinr, Fusion and Panels has been my best launch of an ebook ever. Thanks to everyone that's already purchased their copy. I hope you're enjoying it so far. I made a special offer to my mailing list yesterday and it was so hugely popular that I thought I'd extend it to everyone else too.

Plans for the Aegir 1.0 release and how we'll get there Last week at DrupalCon Copenhagen Antoine Beaupre and I shared our plans for the 1.0 release of the Aegir hosting system.

If you plan to use the securepages module behind a proxy that terminates SSL, there are some additional server configuration steps you need to take. In order to detect what the protocol is in use, securepages tests the value of $_SERVER['HTTPS']. Out of the box, this merely reflects the immediate connection to your proxy. If this protocol differs from that used by the original client, then securepages can't work (the most likely outcome is a redirect loop).

Everyone knows the top-tier Drupal modules, but with over 5,000 modules available for Drupal it’s no surprise that many useful ones go unnoticed. As a public service to the Drupal community, Palantir is working to raise awareness of some of these unsung heroes. In part 4 of our ongoing 5,162-part series, we present: Menu Block: Revisited

This is the question I got at many events where I presented about localize.drupal.org. We've just rolled out support for suggestion exports for translators about a month ago to make quality control and management easier, but that does not help people much who are just looking to download what's available.

TagsDrupal PlanetIt’s by sharing knowledge with others that the Drupal community continues to grow and flourish. In that spirit, DrupalCon Chicago will be offering pre-conference training courses and workshops to attendees interested in gaining additional hands-on knowledge on a variety of topics related to Web and Drupal development. We are looking for talented, professional trainers who can share their knowledge at pre-conference training courses and workshops.

If you read my previous post about converting Subversion repositories to git, you’ll know that to do a proper Subversion-to-Git transformation on a batch of repositories is going to take some time (what with all that command line typing). I had 142 legacy project Subversion repositories lying around I wanted converted to Git and, since I’m lazy, I pulled on my bash boots and wrote me a script to do the work!

The steps for programmatically creating a node are: Create a PHP object representing the node data Save the object using the node_save() function While the mechanics are simple, there is an important responsibility involved. The Drupal work flow does data validation before calling the node_save() function; node_save() does no validation. By calling node_save() directly your code takes the responsibility for providing valid data.

I've now been working professionally in Drupal for a year and have learned a lot about it; I have some patches into contrib but I've not really done much with core other than some simpletests I was too shy to commit at Drupalcon and some comments trying to help people out on d.o. Prior to my stint as Drupal programmer I was a hardcore Ruby on Rails developer for about 4 years. Over the last two years in particular I've learned a lot about frameworks and I'd like to share an observation about which framework feels right to me for which situations and why.

When I first realized that I needed a version control system, the best system at the time was CVS. (No, really.) Subversion was nearing 1.0, so I waited for its release and then used it everywhere. Well, that was 2003. Time for a change. This past year, it became obvious that there were many Git users within the Drupal community, so Drupal has decided to move to Git. Since then I've started learning and researching the best ways to convert all my development to a Git-based workflow. So far… it rocks.

It sounded like a really simple request: "Is it easy to add a search filter for 'My posts'?". In other words, add a search result facet for posts by the current (logged in) user through the Apache Solr Search Integration module APIs?

Every day, millions of people use Google Image Search to find pictures, products, and people. If you're using Drupal, chances are you're not getting any of this traffic. Here's why: Drupal's robots.txt file contains a major mistake. Amazingly, the mistake has been there for years, and very few people seem to know about it. read more

Three days ago on the 27th of August, Drupal.org's localization service, localize.drupal.org held its one year anniversary. It is worth a look back and a look forward to understand how far we came and what kind of tasks are ahead of us still.

The first meeting in a Drupal-specific context regarding the Federated Social Web took place at the Copenhagen Drupalcon. It was very interesting both because of the range of people interested and because we got a first-hand account of developments from James Walker who is a key part of the Ostatus effort. This blog post is a brief write-up of what was discussed and links to further information.

As Drupal events grow around the world, more and more people find meetups and conferences closer to themselves. However, traveling to bigger events like Drupalcons can still be a financial problem for many. One of the solutions for this is couch surfing, where you could take a couch from someone who has it available in the host city for an event. Of course sleeping at an unknown person's place can be problematic.

During the ending keynote I showed one of the emails we got during the work with drupalcon I think it shows the other face of doing a drupalcon, but also is funny because its so filled with ignorance and all that the drupal community isnt :)

Download Podcast 43 Listen in as Ryan, Mike, and special guest Todd Tomlinson from ServerLogic discuss Drupal news from the past week. Todd is the author of Beginning Drupal 7 from Apress Publishing. Rather than going with a standard interview with Todd, we decided to ask him to join us for one of our news-based podcasts.

If you've never used it before, then you haven't been enjoying the realtime data available from Drupal's built-in report system. Users of the Admin_Menu can simply mouseover the REPORTS section and see a list of reports that you can view. Personally I use it frequently and find it to be rather handy. In this video I cover a few of the things I do with it as well as cover a few contributed modules that add to the functionality. read more

The South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and Drupal hold a special place in our hearts. After all, it was at SXSW in 2008 that LevelTen first discovered the awesomeness that is Drupal. Since that date, we've never looked back! ...

DrupalEasy is one of the sponsors of this Saturday's (August 28, 2010) first-ever Drupal Camp Connecticut, to be held at Yale University in New Haven. The camp sold out with about 175 attendees a few days ago, so if you don't have a ticket, you might be out-of-luck (you can always try begging). Mike Anello from DrupalEasy (born and raised in Connecticut!) will be presenting three sessions:

Blurb for Featured Block:  Drupal 6 ships with jQuery 1.2.6, while jQuery is already up to 1.4.2. A lot has happened in those two minor versions, and it's time to bring your Drupal up to date! Here's how... jQuery is the bread and butter of rapidly developing a highly-interactive websites, and Drupal has long made use of it, and indeed includes it as part of its core install.

I presented on my experience doing UX work in the Drupal community: the challenges and opportunities we have towards creating a more richer design community. Taking place in the beautiful MIT Stata Center I truly enjoyed sharing my experiences being in this vibrant community, I feel the discussion that followed from my presentation is the most interesting part.

At Drupalcon Paris, Roy Scholten (yoroy) kept an amazing journal of notes from the sessions he attended, combined with illustrations that focused on noteworthy themes being presented by the speakers. I thought this was a really cool way to capture the essence of a session and kind of linger over and focus on the ideas that stuck with you. In that spirit I drew the following at a personal moment during Dries' keynote in Drupalcon San Francisco.

Apart from PHP bugs and Denial of Service attacks, there's another reason why calling unserialize on user-supplied data (cookies, hidden form fields) is a bad idea. read more

The Drupal community is remarkably not sexist and yet... Yesterday, Dries' keynote, alas, had a sex scandal slide which probably just wanted to be a (rather tactless and tasteless) joke but it had rather sexist undertones which have managed to piss off a number of women. But, my frustration is not just from the keynote but the reaction, let me quote two tweets here: "Woman on stage at #drupalcon, Dries can have his sextape in 2010." and even more importantly, from someone who retweeted it and got called out for it "Don't take it so seriously.

Man, it was fun playing at FooBar tonight. Huge thanks to everyone involved in making it a great experience. Here are my thoughts about a deeper message in what could be considered a silly song.

Announcing Lullabot's short URL site: lb.cm URL shorteners are the bane of the internet. However, for those of us who use Twitter on a regular basis, you know that 140 characters can be limiting. URLs can theoretically be 2,000 characters or more, but most are in the 40 to 80 character range. That's almost half your tweet!

Nuvole presentation at DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010 Nuvole is going to present and discuss its development workflow, entirely based on code and Features, at the DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010 in a few minutes! Please find it as a Slideshare embed below, or attached in PDF format.read more

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