After upgrading a site with complex CCK node types, I ran into this error on the node type’s manage fields page:
This content type has inactive fields. Inactive fields are not included in lists of available fields until their modules are enabled.
It went on to list every Computed Field and FeedField I was using as inactive, [...]
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Drupal
I’m not a programmer so I’m especially happy when I can contribute to Drupal meaningfully.
I submitted a patch today to add caching to the Whois module.
http://drupal.org/node/698850
My first taste of Drupal was the 4.6 version in 2006. I very clearly remember running into the flexinode module and thinking “OMG, custom content types! Woo! That’s exactly what I want in a CMS!” Haven’t looked back since.
Below are the slides that Dries used to present the State of Drupal at Drupalcon ‘09. Yeah, [...]
I’ve worked in IT for nearly 10 years now. First as a help desk operator, then a Linux sysadmin, and now a Drupal developer/webmaster. In that time, I’ve run into a handful of really perplexing problems. ”Perplexing” meaning after hours (usually, days) of troubleshooting, I can’t figure out why the system is suddenly unstable.
You know [...]
I took my sysadmin friend Marc to DrupalCampLA 2009 this past weekend. When we get together, I go on and on about Drupal and he waxes on about Django.
I think he got the sense of why I tell everyone I know to use Drupal for their web projects. Especially after sitting in on Rain [...]
I’m going to DrupalCampLA 2009. It’s at UC Irvine this weekend (in less than 8 hours actually).
I’m excited about learning new tricks, asking questions, and meeting other Drupalers face to face. It’s my first Drupal live meetup.
It’s also my first barcamp. Being able to vote on sessions and have them be rearranged on the schedule [...]
If you’re upgrading from Drupal 5.x to 6.x, and you’re using the Block Cache module, be sure to drop the cache_block table prior to upgrading.
Update.php fails to create the cache_block table if it already exists from the 5.x install of the Block Cache module. Turns out there’s a patch for update.php created by chx way [...]
Drupal’s Vote Up/Down module version 5.x-1.1 is broken. Votes aren’t saved. The patch in comment #2 of this issue fixes it.
I keep forgetting the names of the date formats in Drupal’s format_date() function.
They’re “small“, “medium“, ”large“, and “custom“.
I keep wanting to use short / medium / long because it feels more natural to think of the date formats as lengths.
In any case, that’s not reality. So to help me remember the options, I think of Drupal [...]
Even though I tell everyone I know to use Drupal for their web projects, I finally caved and set up my personal blog (what you’re reading now) on Wordpress. I finally faced reality — using Drupal for my personal blog was overkill and added so much unnecessary complexity.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not [...]
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