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 [...]
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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 [...]
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.
Is there a service where you can submit a url/domain and have it figure out what CMS is powering the site? I would use it all the time. Scanning the source to get clues used to be kind of fun, but now I just want to know quickly. There’s a Firefox addon called Backend Info [...]
I know you have a lot of awesome ideas in your head. Maybe you have several projects deep into development. There’s a ton of potential there. Just imagine the benefits! Problem is, all we can do is imagine it. It doesn’t exist unless it’s out there, live for the world to play with. Sprint that [...]
You can use search operators to create filters in Gmail. This makes Gmail filters so much more powerful. I don’t understand why Google tries to hide this feature. It’s not obvious that you can use search operators on the “Create a filter” form, and they don’t even mention it on the filter creation help page. [...]
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 [...]
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 defecting. [...]
If you’re having problems with Drupal cron — like cron runs are timing out or running out of memory — here’s a quick hack to figure out which module is causing the problems. Edit the includes/module.inc file, and find the function module_invoke_all. Insert the line indicated below to have a notice added to the logs [...]
Or any other node attribute. Say you want to have a block that only shows up for “page” type nodes. Here’s how to do it…. In the configuration form for the block in question, use the following code in the “Page specific visibility settings” section. Be sure to select the “PHP” option. < ?php if [...]
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