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Setting up Drupal on DotCloud's server automation platform

Managing a properly configured server stack is one of the pain points in developing small client sites.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 17:10

A showcase of red flags: How do web shops get away with this?

I recently had occasion to review the new website of a major bank's CRA/ch

Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 15:29

Drupal.org on Git: how to preserve GitHub repositories for existing modules

I've been keeping all my code on GitHub, waiting for Drupal.org to move from CVS to Git.

Friday, February 25, 2011 - 20:13

Drupal as an Application Framework: Unofficially competing in the BostonPHP Framework Bakeoff

BostonPHP hosted a PHP Framework Bake-Off last night, a competition among four application frameworks: CakePHP,

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 16:20

Drupal: Re-Sync Content Taxonomy from core taxonomy

I'm working on a major Drupal (6) site migration now, and one of the components that needs to be automatically migrated is taxonomies, mapping old vocabularies and terms to new ones.

Friday, January 21, 2011 - 17:19

Google Analytics Custom Variables

I have a need on several projects to use Google Analytics for lists of "Most Popular" content. Drupal's core node_counter stats are DB write-heavy and don't work on sites behind a full-page cache like Varnish or Akamai.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 - 22:29

Redefine PHP functions at runtime with runkit

This is new to me: the runkit extension available through PECL allows PHP functions to be r

Thursday, November 4, 2010 - 03:52

Drupal Dojo 9/29: Git workflows

Learned tonight at the unofficial Drupal Dojo in JP (copied from BHirsch):

Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 01:57

Abandoned GMap.module, json_server FAIL; is contrib quality slipping?

I've been building a lot of custom functionality over the last few weeks on top of the GMap module for Drupal, but was constantly pushing the limits of the module and finally decided to d

Monday, September 27, 2010 - 16:00

Contributed: Blogger Importer module to import Blogger blogs into Drupal

As part of New Leaf Digital's commitment to contributing back to the Drupal community, I created the

Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 21:08

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