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  • In defence of train travel   3 weeks 5 days ago

    I found your site by way of Drupal and impressed to see that there are more people who like the same things and adventures like me awesome:)

  • Nobody NEEDS a cellphone   4 weeks 10 hours ago

    I agree with you I hope they burn in hell as well

  • Custom steps and forms in a D7 install profile   5 weeks 5 days ago

    Very helpful.

    It's very difficult to find complete examples on this subject, and the most known Drupal distros don't implement this in that way.

    You saved my day, thanks :-)

  • Adding a simple twitter feed to your Drupal site   8 weeks 9 hours ago

    HI,
    I can't find a way to create a category. I'm using Drupal 7.12.
    Does it work on this version
    The link admin/content/aggregator/add/category doesn't show me a CATEGORY to create.
    Thanks.

  • Last update from Thailand   8 weeks 5 days ago

    Well, Never been to Thailand , heard alot of thailand from ppl i know and webistes like this, simply awesome!!

  • 9 Drush links to take you from beginner to advanced.   14 weeks 2 days ago

    yes, that was the trick with autocompletion. You need to put drush.complete.sh into /etc/bash_completion.d/
    I love little timesavers like that.

    So, two wedding then. Nice. Someday your kids will be impressed! Which really is a good justification for any adventure.

    Cheers!

  • 9 Drush links to take you from beginner to advanced.   14 weeks 6 days ago

    Hey Tai!

    Ya, that's very cool. I haven't had a chance to give drush 5 a try yet, but I know a bit about some of the changes. Did you add drush.complete.sh to your bash profile? Cause I think you need to do that to make the autocompletion work.

    Also, I won't be going to DrupalCon cause our wedding is the weekend right before it starts :).

  • 9 Drush links to take you from beginner to advanced.   14 weeks 6 days ago

    Hi Scott!

    I saw a good presentation at BADcamp by some of the Drush creators/maintainers on Drush 5.

    http://2011.badcamp.net/program/sessions/drush-5

    Drush 5 is supposed to have bash style auto-completion. It wouldn't work for me but it looked cool in the demonstration. Also it is supposed to have some pretty nifty/powerful database pulling functionality. For small sites it anyhow.

    I am excited to learn how to integrate drush into my little modules.

    By the way, are you going to DrupalCon Denver next month? I will yeah!

  • Creating Custom Triggers in Drupal   15 weeks 1 day ago

    Very impressive post. You have written rally a valuable information.

  • Features Part 2 - Managing your feature   16 weeks 5 days ago

    I think that's quite a fair point. Basically for the vendors there's currently limited benefit for them to be kit compliant. What does it get them in the immediate future? Not a whole lot right now. But once re-usable features start become more mainstream they will need to support a common standard, and the only option for that atm is Kit afaik.

    So if all of a sudden there's two dozen features you could plug into your distro but they won't work due to your not being kit compliant, you'll finally have some incentive to change things.

  • Features Part 2 - Managing your feature   16 weeks 5 days ago

    One issue I feel on "kit compliance" is that no one is mantaining it. And it is a hard task if someone wants to step up to it. Development Seed proposed kit to make it easier for Drupal shops to develop features for OpenAtrium, undoubtedly the most popular Drupal distribution. It takes some authority to keep a Kit standard, and it is worth nothing if there are heavyweight noncompliant distros all over the place.

    All in all, it means Phase 2, Lullabot or any other DIstribution mantainer should step up. But I don't see it coming any soon.

  • 9 Drush links to take you from beginner to advanced.   19 weeks 6 days ago

    Drush make is now part of Drush.

  • Nobody NEEDS a cellphone   20 weeks 1 day ago

    We need air, water, food, shelter and, on some level, love. But it's a rare person who needs a cell phone. I believe it's the dependency rather than the device, that's lamentable. I'll gladly spare you any claim to superiority. Should it ever come to that, my claim will be on better grounds than appliance ownership. Some people play their own music, some bake their own bread. Some walk rather than drive. You decide for yourself which machines you need, and why. I'll make my own choices.

  • A review of my Netfone VoIP service   20 weeks 2 days ago

    Thanks for your article on netwfone. I will not be going with them!

  • A basic install profile   21 weeks 5 days ago

    Thanks for sharing, it was very useful in my case. Fred

  • Features Part 2 - Managing your feature   23 weeks 6 days ago

    Wow, Great post. Keep it up

  • Drupalcon is dead. Long live Drupalcon?   25 weeks 18 hours ago

    Drupalcon is not yet dead. I always wanted to attend meetings although I don't have the authority.

  • Last update from Thailand   25 weeks 6 days ago

    Ya, I was surprised too actually. Most of what I learned was just in the last month too... but ya, still a lot more work before I could read even at a grade 1 level I think :).

  • Last update from Thailand   25 weeks 6 days ago

    Wow I'm impressed how much Thai you learned. Dinner on me when you are in Denver.

  • Drupalcon is dead. Long live Drupalcon?   27 weeks 2 days ago

    Just had a small request, why is your content on the right side of the page, and not the left? It's pretty annoying, I suggest you change this please.

  • A basic install profile   27 weeks 3 days ago

    good article.

    I creating a personal distribution has been very good article, I will profile a mixture of more than expose the profile that I found botafoc.cat is also pretty good.

    thanks for the article.

  • A basic install profile   28 weeks 1 hour ago

    Hey Gregg,

    As far as the difference goes... I try and use features for every possible thing they can be used for. There's no benefit to me to write my own config tasks if I don't need to. Using features makes the install as well as upgrades simpler.

    Maybe the one exception is things like menu items. For whatever reason I've found that they don't work so well with features and fail in ways that haven't been easy for me to reproduce.

    I'd hoped to have gotten two more posts out since this one but the past couple weeks have been busier than expected. Should get them out next week though!

  • A basic install profile   28 weeks 1 hour ago

    Thanks Scott - this post had some interesting and useful stuff in it . When you do the follow up features workflow post, I would appreciate if you could go into detail about what config tasks you would want to put into your install profile and what into features as I have found the crossover between the two can get quite confusing. Is it an either/or approach or should they be used together for configuration. I understand that you would need the profile to at least define and enable the features.

  • An overview of D7 install profiles   29 weeks 5 days ago

    D7 profiler_api type module at www.drupal.org/project/profiler

    Also, there is now a simple GUI interface to create a profile:
    http://drupal.org/node/1283448

    .... totally annoyed by cool modules such as Ckeditor that only look in sites/all/modules for dependencies, as clearly they can live in other places besides sites/all/modules. I wish Library would catch on.
    http://drupal.org/node/1210380

    Doing stuff by hand is great. But leveraging a tool like Profiler + Drush Make can get you there really fast:
    http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/zero-distribution-using-features-profiler-and-drush-make

    Currently building a site via install profile and all the tools i've outlined above. Nice writeup look forward to the followups.

  • Features Part 3 - Re-usable features   29 weeks 6 days ago

    I followed your code but the value of configure item of page in the admin/config/content/example_blog couldn't be saved.

    I did a refresh and it still gave me the default value of 10 from example_blog feature module.