I wish I had a list of what to start with when first digging into Drupal, so I’m going to use this post as a place to list out a good starting point for users that have never used Drupal before. Note: It’s geared towards a Drupal 6 project, BUT I believe most if not [...]
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Introduction to Vagrant base boxes
I was introduced to Vagrant at DrupalCampWNY2011 by @darkoantic and crew, and since then I’ve had a goal to really grasp how to best use this tool in my daily process. I already used VirtualBox so it was a shoe-in to replace my existing MAMP setup for development. The tutorials at the vagrant site use [...]
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Facebook Like button and undocumented HTTPS requirement
I have an hypothesis that I want to bounce around some, this seemed like a good crowd do to so… it may save someone time and it would be good to hear from somebody that may have had a similar experience. Long story short, when adding a Facebook Like button to your site, if you [...]
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Configure PEAR in MAMP
I use MAMP on my Mac daily for most of my web development. It’s a nice sandbox’ed environment but also very easy to maintain. MOST of the libs that I need are pre-bundled with MAMP, but sometime its required that I need something thats not pre-bundled. Here’s how to configure PEAR to work properly with [...]
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Setup Ubuntu Server on VirtualBox to use as a primary dev environment
HEADS UP: This is going to be cleaned up sometime soon… just too tired… Mainly, at the end, I kind of slap on the NAT network thing and the note on how to add users to the vboxsf group to properlly use the VirtualBox Shared File auto mount on system boot. Use VirtualBox to host [...]
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Delete key and other tweaks to the OSX Terminal
I’m always using the Mac OSX Terminal app for things. I was jealous of linux machines though, their terminals were much nicer. Things like the Delete key worked among other things. I found this to help. (From http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050525040921189) (Originally it was from http://koorb.co.uk/scrapbook/ I guess, but that page errors out for me.) Add this to [...]
First Mechanical Keyboard – XArmor U9W Wireless
I have been using my first true mechanical keyboard. I didn’t realize there was such a big variety and such a large community around these keyboards when I first started looking. I tried a Logitech keyboard first, it was a $30 wireless keyboard and I probably would have kept it if Logitech supported Mac like [...]
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Logitech Performance MX mouse (with Darkfield)
I’ve had a Razer brand Copperhead for about 6 years now. That has been a tank that out performed any other mouse I used. I wanted to go wireless though, so I decided to try the Logitech Performance MX. Overall the mouse was great. I’m on a Mac, I write code all day and play [...]
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Logitech K320 Wireless Keyboard
I’m switching from a wired setup to a wireless setup. I’m a programmer and an occasional (but serious) gamer, so I want something that can respond well and not die on me often. My old keyboard was a Microsoft comfort curve… slightly ergonomically curved, but not split down the middle fully. It was a great [...]
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New category here – working remotely
I’m thinking about adding a new category to this blog, ‘working remotely’ or something like that. So far this blog has become a sort of a place for me to share reviews or experiences with hardware / software. New mouse, new apple script or something along those lines. But That has become pretty in-frequent, and [...]
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