Ditching Views For SQL, Part 3
In part one of this series, I discussed the reasons not to use Views including the difficulty in debugging Views and the fact that Views is only in Drupal (whereas SQL is everywhere online). In part...
View ArticleSettings.php Hack: Keep Credentials out of Your Code
Over my three year Drupal career, I’ve seen several interesting server setups for running Drupal. One technique I’ve been gravitating toward is storing the environment specific configuration settings...
View ArticleGetting to Done Faster with Drush and PHP
If you’re like me, you’ve been using Drush (“DRUsh SHell”) for a while to make several tasks less tedious: downloading and enabling modules, running database updates, backing up the database, clearing...
View ArticleQuick Drupal - Lessons Learned While Whipping Up a Fresh Drupal Instance
I’ve recently migrated to Ubuntu 12.04 from Windows, and I ran into some issues getting the drush core-quick-drupal command. As a quick refresher, the “quick drupal” command will download, install, and...
View ArticleBest Practices for Translation in Drupal
One of the biggest reasons my company decided to use Drupal for their marketing website is the capacity to translate and “localize” content. Drupal has a series of APIs going back at least to Drupal...
View ArticleConsiderations for Multisite Drupal
We’ve been using the Domain Access the module at my day job for about 5 years with Drupal 6. Recently, we’ve decided Domain Access is not the right solution for our use case.Domain...
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Using hook_menu to capture custom menus in code
Every time I use hook_menu(), I get an awful headache. Why? Drupal has overloaded this hook to handle both the menu system and the routing system, which seems like an architectural mistake to me. As a...
View ArticleA Super Handy Translation Checklist
I’ve been bitten time after time during (what I wrongly assumed) would be the last phase of a project because of translation issues. So, I’ve put together a checklist of some DO’s and DON’Ts that I’ve...
View ArticleDrupalCon Austin, Texas - Video Module Sprint
I’m super excited for DrupalCon Austin! Since becoming a new maintainer on the illustrious Video Module, I’ve been gathering feedback from the issue queue and wanting to really dive deep on the...
View ArticleUsing AWS CloudFront Behaviors with HTTPS for Planet Drupal RSS
After all the relevations of Snowden last year, I’ve been wanting to be more security focused. A small but obvious change is providing this blog over HTTPS. Disqus powers the comments, and if you login...
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