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Major Major and Drupal 7

Submitted by J Ayen Green on Sun, 02/13/2011 - 12:16

Considering I haven't contributed a line of code (yet) to core, I hate to say anything critical, but ...

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Drupal 7

Drupal Watchdog

Submitted by J Ayen Green on Tue, 02/08/2011 - 22:09

The Farmisht Freelancer

a column for the (oft irreverent) discussion of all things related to being in the business of developing, building and theming Drupal sites. Farmisht is a Yiddish word with a nuanced meaning. Picture yourself waking after not enough sleep and stumbling around in search of coffee to help your eyes focus.
Issue 1 - Don't Put the Cart Before the Horse (Sense)

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Drupal

Swapping OpenJDK for Sun JDK on Ubuntu

Submitted by J Ayen Green on Sun, 02/06/2011 - 19:50

Recently I installed an application on Ubuntu that requires Sun JDK rather than the OpenJDK that Ubuntu installs with...here's how.

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Linux
Ubuntu
phpstorm
sun
oracle
java
jdk

The Never-Ending Hunt for an IDE

Submitted by J Ayen Green on Sun, 02/06/2011 - 18:40

I've been through more IDE's than I can remember, but I may have stumbled onto a winner.

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programming
IDE
php
Ubuntu

Mediapool module released

Submitted by J Ayen Green on Sat, 02/05/2011 - 16:37

I released version 6.x-1.0 of Mediapool, a module that allows a node without a dedicated image to have one randomly selected from a pool of applicable images.

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Drupal 6
contributed
module
mediapool
media
image

Creating a Custom Content Type with Fields from a Drupal Module

Submitted by J Ayen Green on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 13:46

I was recently working on a custom Drupal 6.x module that needs to create a custom content type with fields upon installation. I did quite a bit of hunting for how best to do this. There are a few different approaches, including using the Features module, or having my module do all the node and db handling, etc. I decided to use the export and import features of CCK, and it's very easy to do. Here is a link to the handbook page at DO that explains how to do it.

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Drupal 6
api
module
CCK
programming

Book Review: Drupal 6: Panels Cookbook

Submitted by J Ayen Green on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 00:42

When the request came for me to review Drupal 6: Panels Cookbook by Bhavin (Vin) Patel, I was excited. I've been a software developer forever, a Web developer for as long as there's been a Web, and a Drupal developer since D6 was imminent. I have two Drupal books myself, and am working one about D7 Views, but with all that, one glaring hole in my self-education has been Panels; it would be my first chance to use it.

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Drupal
panels

Curing a Domain's Split Personality

Submitted by J Ayen Green on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 16:36
conflicting signposts

Are you stymied by mydomain.com and www. mydomain.com ending up in different places, even though they should not?

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apache
dns
domain

Moving house: shared hosting to VPS

Submitted by J Ayen Green on Sun, 12/19/2010 - 23:35
rhino carrying barn - theaccidentalcoder.com

I received a 'love letter' from my hosting provider: you have too many tables in your databases and are negatively impacting performance. You have 14 days to correct this or we will take your firstborn...or something to that effect.

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Linode
VPS
Drupal
hosting

Using the Correct Ruler

Submitted by J Ayen Green on Sun, 11/21/2010 - 19:07
Two puppets each holding a ruler with differing scales

Sometimes, the guys controlling the synapses are asleep at the switch, and things I've always known are momentarily gone. It's one thing when I know that to be the case — knowing what I don't know — such as seeing an actress on the screen and being asked who it is. I knew until I was asked. It's not knowing that I don't know that's the bigger problem...not realizing that I've forgotten, because the switchman hasn't fallen asleep, he's thrown the wrong switch.

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php

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