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General guidelines for running a Drupal project.
January 28, 2013
The book module stores book hierarchy data in the Drupal database. Let's see how.
December 11, 2012
How does Drupal store data about menus? You might want to know, if your code needs to work with them. Let's see what's going down.
December 9, 2012
Zombies shamble around the interwebs, looking for tasty Drupal sites. Protect your site with Unix permissions.
November 4, 2012
Tags: Security, Unix, File permissions
A PC with NetBeans for development + a production VPS + GitHub = a basic Drupal development environment
September 29, 2012
Learn how to install Drupal on a shared hosting account.
January 6, 2012
Entities, bundles, field types, fields, instances... ARGH! Too confusing! My brain is slowing down! Together, we can fight the zombification. The first round: field types.
August 25, 2011
Tags: Fields, Field API, Widgets, Formatters
GIT is complicated, hard to learn fully, and confusing at times. But it can help, too. You can experiment with your code, confident that GIT has your back. This article shows how to use GIT with NetBeans, to let you safely mess with your Drupal code.
August 21, 2011
Model-view-controller (MVC) is one of the best-known software design patterns. Drupal uses it, in core and in modules. Learn what MVC is.
August 15, 2011
Tutorials are key weapons in the fight against Drupal zombie-itis. Here's advice on how to write good ones.
August 11, 2011
Zombification doesn't only threaten developers. Users, too. GUI editors are a proven user dezombifier. For best results, have your editor start up the right way.
August 6, 2011
Tags: WYSIWYG, CKEditor, Custom module
That widget that lets users choose the input format for their comment. I wanted to remove it. How hard could it be? .... U-R-G-H! B-r--a---i---n---s!
August 5, 2011
Tags: Comment form, jQuery, Input format selector
Drupal has a byzantine theming system. Powerful, but it emits zombitrons at an incredible rate. Shield your brain, by learning how the theme system works. At least, how I think it works. I could be wrong.
August 2, 2011
Tags: Theming
"Argh! There's a core update! U--r---r----g-----h! B--r--a--i--n--s!" Dezombificate with Drush.
July 31, 2011
Tags: Drush