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A basic Drupal development environment with Git

A PC with NetBeans for development + a production VPS + GitHub = a basic Drupal development environment

September 29, 2012

Configuring CKEditor and WYSIWYG: Zombie fighters for users

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 WYSIWYG, CKEditor, Custom module

Drush: A zombification remedy

"Argh! There's a core update! U--r---r----g-----h! B--r--a--i--n--s!" Dezombificate with Drush.

July 31, 2011 Drush

Drushing a new Drupal

How to use Drush to install a new Drupal.

February 27, 2013

Ebook for Drupal beginners

A book for beginners

September 27, 2012 Book, Beginner

Fight Drupal's überzombies! Round 1: Field types

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 Fields, Field API, Widgets, Formatters

Hiding the comment form's input format selector: A zombifying experience

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 Comment form, jQuery, Input format selector

How theming works (maybe): part 1

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 Theming

Install Drupal 7 on a shared host

Learn how to install Drupal on a shared hosting account.

January 6, 2012

MVC Z: Model, View, Controller, and Zombies

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 MVC, Pattern, Bears

Permissions, Drupal, Apache, and Zombies

Zombies shamble around the interwebs, looking for tasty Drupal sites. Protect your site with Unix permissions.

November 4, 2012 Security, Unix, File permissions

Running a Drupal project: Overview

General guidelines for running a Drupal project.

January 28, 2013

Storing books in Drupal 7 databases

The book module stores book hierarchy data in the Drupal database. Let's see how.

December 11, 2012

Storing menus in Drupal 7 databases

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 Drupal, menus, submenus

When zombies attack (your code), GIT can help

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

Writing antizombic tutorials

Tutorials are key weapons in the fight against Drupal zombie-itis. Here's advice on how to write good ones.

August 11, 2011