It may have taken me a whole day to wrap my head around the features API and how it applied to the workflow module but I finally got there. Today I wrote features support to the workflow module. At DrupalSouth I gave a talk about features in ...

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The past week here in Wellington New Zealand has been quite an exciting one with LCA (Linux Conf AU) and DrupalSouth (Drupal conference for New Zealand) both taking place. We had a lot of speakers from around the world come to Wellington to present what they've been up to and talk about there passions in Open Source. In particular, I was able to...

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In short, Drupal 6 Site Blueprints is a Drupal book for beginners and not a bad one at that. It uses application, excersises and repetition to teach the reader how to use...

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Okay, so I don't normally review books. I was approached and asked to review this Drupal book and I couldn't turn it down. Without a doubt, search engine optimization is a big factor to the fail or success of a website these days and some companies pay big money to get that no.1 ranking in Google. As a developer, it couldn't hurt to learn a...

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For the first, in Paris, all the database maintainers of Drupal were in the same place at the same time. From the left is David Strauss (MySQL Driver), Larry Garfield (Database and...

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Sick of repeating the same steps every time I wrote a custom module for a project, I decided to write a simple script that generated the base structure for creating a Drupal module.

Being a developer who likes to make stuff take less time by spending ages on the tools that make it take less time, I extended the simple script and turned it...

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As all well and done providing PostgreSQL support for Drupal Core - it an important job that provides future proofing for thousands of projects around the world. But it...

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If you've altered your stock standard postgresql.conf configuration file of your Ubuntu server and upgraded to the lastest release, there is a good chance you'll get an error like:


FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Invalid argument
DETAIL:  Failed...

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The first code sprint was a huge success! We had a lot of people from from Catalyst IT show up to the level 3 training room and together we looked at the issues from the PostgreSQL Code Sprint and started to create a better knowledge base around ...

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So this Friday is the first of many PostgreSQL Code Sprints for Drupal with our main focus on ...

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