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R.O.O.S.T.S. && Women in Tech

There was a session at BADCamp this year asking how Men can be better allies for Women in tech.

Monday, November 24, 2014 - 11:57

A new approach to Drupal training

There are many paid and free Drupal training sites on the internet. To the best of my knowledge, none of them is open source. And I'm quite certain none of them is "ridiculously open."

Thursday, November 20, 2014 - 18:30

Ways to shoot yourself in the foot: element validation

I needed to do some custom validation of fields on a form. So, I decided to use #element_validate.

Friday, July 25, 2014 - 04:21

Ways to shoot yourself in the foot: Renaming directories

I was having trouble getting a feature to enable correctly. It wasn't creating all the fields for the content type it defined. It built some of the fields but not others.

Friday, May 30, 2014 - 21:29

Ways to shoot yourself in the foot: Submit "buttons"

I was writing custom forms that needed a validate handler and a submit handler. So, I followed the standard approach of

Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 21:19

WTF: How do I get Drupal to put placeholder text inside my textfield?

What's that feature: the #attributes key.

Monday, December 23, 2013 - 21:33

WTF: How can I find out what information is available in the node table?

What's that File (layout)?

There are many different ways to figure out what information the node table contains.

Friday, November 22, 2013 - 20:04

WTF: Why is variable_get not pulling the value from the variable table?

What's that Feature?

Friday, November 15, 2013 - 17:34

Ways to shoot yourself in the foot: Custom module and theme names

I was writing an extremely simple custom module (for a D6 site) to make use of hook_block. Every time I enabled the module the blocks no longer displayed on the pages.

Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 22:00

Drupal on AWS with RDS - PDOException

I am running a Drupal 7 site on AWS with an EC2 micro instance and RDS on Ubuntu 12.04.

Friday, March 8, 2013 - 20:37

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