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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Siteurl and home settings durring WordPress developemnt
When I develop sites I start on my local machine, and edit my /etc/hosts file to point to my local system. E.g. website.dev is the dev domain I might use to work on website.com locally. (This would be opposed to pointing all sites to localhost/folder/someotherfolder/website_dev or something. I just find it eaiser.) It works great, [...]
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WordPress for the iPhone app review
This one will be short, I’m writing it from the wordpress iPhone app. It’s nice, but I don’t know it could be used long term for quality blogs. There’s no way to post audio/video. Picture support is nice though, it even optionaly resizes the image to be smaller and upload faster. All-in-all though, the app [...]