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Link to twitter status message from Drupal twitter module repost

Link twitter status messages to the twitter account display of these status messages.

 

Installing Tweetdeck on Ubuntu 9.04 64bit

So you wanna get TweetDeck rocking out on Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit?

First, you have to get Adobe Air installed:

Grabbed most of the important bits from http://www.bauer-power.net/2009/05/getting-adobe-air-to-work-in-ubuntu-9...

 

Views 2 Theming - The Presentation

the slides for my presentation on Views2 Theming given at design 4 drupal at the MIT Stata Center on June 13th, 2009 in room 141....

 

Drupal Design Camp Boston this weekend, Providence meet tonight, Redesign sprint Fri, and a general camp in the works

This weekend Design For Drupal Boston promises to be the biggest Drupal event to hit New England since the 2008 North America DrupalCon, with 27 sessions proposed and nearly 200 registered attendees, including a number of current – and no doubt more future – Drupal stars.

Hastily donned hats off to the hard-working organizers, including Susan MacPhee, Kevin Flavin, and Christefano.

For more reasons to be proud to be a New Englander – as if marriage equality were not enough – upcoming Drupal events include, tonight, the Boston Meetup in Providence, Rhode Island on the occasion of a Lullabot invasion and this Friday, for people who want to help refurbish Drupal's home, Kieran Lal of Acquia helps bring a Drupal.org redesign orientation sprint to MIT. And all these events are free.

Agaric has five people attending and submitted five sessions to the Design Camp.  (Looks nice and balanced?  Well, Kathleen Murtagh has images in content, version control, and Zen-sustainable theming, leaving Views 2 theming and RDFa semantic goodness to a couple of the rest of us.)

If you have a burning desire to present, Susan asks for developers to help cover fundamentals.  Or if you feel you'd have liked to help organize a camp and wonder why you didn't know about the planning of this one, not only is it not too late to volunteer this weekend, you can still get in on the ground floor of the second New England DrupalCamp in two months.

 

Query about inclusion of all-income Drupalers at DrupalCon Paris

[Sent via the http://paris2009.drupalcon.org contact form]

This question is about scholarship / support information for attendees. I note that such efforts do not have to be organized by the DrupalCon Paris organizers, but you will necessarily be a key point of coordination in any case.

 

Drupal 7 module development gotchas

First we discovered that you need a .module file for your module to be recognized. A .info file is not enough. (In this case, we only wanted the .install file, we made an empty .module file, and all was well. But then we wanted to add some functions to that empty .module file...)

Now we have found that you need to declare

files[] = agaric_example.module

 

Drupal 7's jobqueue doesn't guarantee your hard drive won't be hit by a meteor

Meteor safety is surely the most important metric in open source free software, and we must warn you: Drupal 7's new Jobqueue doesn't guarantee your hard drive won't be hit by a meteor.

This has been a public service announcement from Agaric Design Collective. Good day.

 

Your mom likes IE6!

Your mom likes IE6. It is true. Most likely, it is because it is all she knows. So, to all the mom's out there, we love you and appreciate all you have done. We would just appreciate it more if you changed your browser and upgraded to Firefox. But, we would settle for IE8, even IE7.

 

Get the directory name from a file path string in PHP

There is a built-in PHP function to get the directory portion of a file path from a string (lopping off the filename itself).

http://us3.php.net/dirname

 

Debugging errors in Drupal or anything running on Apache

Had occasion to do a quick (read: emergency) debug session for a live site today, and as I remembered the steps for a change, wandering around on a server not our own, I share with them with the world repackaged as a debugging lesson:


$ cd /var/log/httpd/
-bash: cd: /var/log/httpd/: Permission denied
$ sudo tail -f /var/log/httpd/error.log
Password:

 

Taking it to that level with cufon

So you've got yourself a solid drupal theme, and now you're sitting back looking at your work and thinking that it's good, but it could still be taken to that level.

 

Powering Drupal search with Apache Solr

After having spent some weeks in the US with my colleagues from Natick, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, I am back in Germany now. We went to DrupalCon DC together which turned out to be an inspiring event for a Drupal newbie like me.

 

Thank you Drupal

I'm writing this blog post to mark the occasion of acquiring the domain name http://agaric.com. It was a slow and expensive process and something I didn't think we'd ever do, mostly because of not wanting to give in to the evil practice of domain squatting hoarding that's going on out there.

 

Making sure multiple numeric ID input can be allowed in the most flexible way possible

Agaric knows that the best usability would never have people entering numeric IDs into a text field in the first place, but pending fancy remote search and completion techniques, we can at least take a set of numbers without rejecting them for using semicolons instead of commas.

<?php
/**
* Replace all other separators in a string with spaces and split into arary.
*