Articles from David Norman

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Views object from a different multisite.

I have an installation with multiple Drupal sites in one install (Drupal multisite). One of the multisites needs information from another multisite's nodes which use CCK.

Saturday, March 21, 2009 - 16:30

CCK Content Permissions patch feature

The current distribution of CCK 6.x-2 provides a new module from 5.x that sets view and edit permissions at the field level.

Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 14:49

I unmaintained my Drupal 5 modules on purpose

On Feb 15th, I unmaintained all Drupal 5 support on modules where I'm the node owner.

Monday, February 23, 2009 - 15:25

Automating Drupal module activation

When upgrading a large Drupal site between major revisions, I find myself doing the update over and over again.

Saturday, February 21, 2009 - 05:19

Drupal developer toolkit

Drupal modules

Friday, February 13, 2009 - 06:09

Drupal shared database multi-site

Drupal allows you to run from multiple different databases by being creative with the use of the multi-site functionality built into core.

Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 04:25

Zend Studio for Eclipse Drupal formatter

For years I've been a paying customer of Zend, using their Zend Studio Professional.

Monday, May 5, 2008 - 18:33

Automate unchecking checkboxes

I'm doing some testing of an upgrade for a site from Drupal 4.7.x to 5.x. As part of the major version upgrades in Drupal, you're supposed to disable all the modules you have installed.

Monday, March 17, 2008 - 21:03

Anyone can help Drupal

If you like Drupal, but you don't really know how so many people are able to contribute on average 4 new modules a day, or use their creativity to

Thursday, February 14, 2008 - 14:34

Dries makes Views a priority

Dries Buytaert, Supreme Drupal Overlord, said today on the development@ mailing list the following:

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 15:43