How to setup Syntaxhighlighter to use with Ckeditor module in Drupal 6
After many hours of banging my head against the keyboard I finally have custom syntax highlighting with ckeditor in Drupal 6. When I first set out to add this feature I thought it would be as easy as...
View ArticleHow to install and setup Tomcat6, Apache Solr, Drupal 6 on Ubuntu with Apache...
Apache solr is a java based application that is used for creating fast, extensive, and configurable search. Apache Solr is part of the Apache lucene project, which is an open source project for...
View ArticleAliasing remote servers and setting up passwordless authorization for speedy...
While typing a password is not a difficult or super time consuming task, I'd rather spend those minutes a day doing something else. By setting up your host file, generating a public key and adding it...
View ArticleHow to install and setup New Relic on CentOS and RedHat to use with Drupal
New Relic is the all-in-one web application performance tool that lets you see performance from the end user experience down to the line of application code. Check out New Relic at...
View ArticleWorking with the file object in Drupal 7
Drupal can be mysterious in many ways sometimes. Tying to do the simplest things can become a complex series of function calls, that sometimes makes your head hurt tyring to remember everything....
View ArticleHow to Drupal 7, CDN Module, and Amazon Cloudfront in 10 minutes
Recently I decided to check out Amazon Cloudfront to use as a cdn. I had a delighted experience with it. It was so easy to setup with drupal and configured so easy in just a few steps.Insert Image:...
View ArticleRecent Project: Converting the BMJ (British Medical Journal) to Drupal
Recently I had the privilege of being part of a team that converted the BMJ (British Medical Journal) to Drupal. The BMJ (British Medical Journal) is one of the world’s top five international peer...
View ArticleDrupal 7, how to programmatically download files, optionally save them as...
UPDATE:Based on some comments below, I have updated the function with a sligtly more drupalesck approach. Thanks for the comments!The previous version of this function had a bug where it would create a...
View ArticleHow to programmatically load panel pages from the database and include panel...
After hours of munging through ctools and page manager module code I figured out how to load enabled panel pages programmatically in code.read more
View ArticleHow to restore .git directory using Capistrano 3/Convert a git archive repo...
I have been working with Capistrano 3 for a few months now and really love it. At my current it job it has allowed us to create a complex deployment system much faster and that is more reliable. One...
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