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about 14 hours
ago
If you want to make any sort of terms and conditions applicable to becoming a member of your Drupal site, I would suggest using the Legal module. It provides for a text agreement that a user must agree to to get an account on the site. The
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agreement is signified via a single checkbox or multiple custom checkboxes. Additionally, the terms can be updated which requires users to agree to the agreement during their next site visit, a text box also provides for notes on changes.
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Posted
about 16 hours
ago
The team has released version 3.0.3 stable today. This release includes 60+ bug fixes. We recommend that you review the list of fixes and upgrade your site as needed. New installations should definitely use 3.0.3.
Kudos to folks in the
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community who have reported and helped diagnose / fix bugs during this release cycle! Top bug hunter / squashers for this release include: Dave Jenkins, Graham Gilchrist, Jack Aponte, Joe Murray, Nathan Kinkade, Raphael Vering, Tim Otten, Will Brownsberger, and Xavier Dutoit.
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Posted
about 18 hours
ago
At the recently Drupal Camp Prague 09, I was introduced to ApacheSolr as a replacement to the standard Drupal search or the Google CSE.
On most sites the basic Google CSE setup is sufficient, however for some of the more serious "work"
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websites my colleague Nick and I got experimenting with the Drupal's implementation of ApacheSolr module.
Here is a quick and rough writeup on how it was implemented on work and my personal (janaksingh.com website). [Less]
Posted
about 19 hours
ago
Thanks to everyone who came out to the meet-up at our offices last Friday. It's always a pleasure to talk about some of the major events coming up in the Drupal world in such good company. For those who weren't there, we were blessed with the
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presence of Drupal 7 co-maintainer Angie Byron, who talked about using the Coder module for porting modules from previous versions to Drupal 7. The Coder module is becoming a commonly used module and was used to patch some of the Drupal 7 core, which is highly anticipated by the Drupal community and is still undergoing development. Here at Koumbit we have also used this module to port some of our older Drupal 5.x modules to a more recent 6.x release.
Sounds like big things are coming up for the Montreal Drupal community, and Koumbit is excited to be a part of it! To keep up to date on future meet-ups, be sure to check out the Montreal-Quebec group on groups.drupal.org or Koumbit's Facebook page. [Less]
Posted
1 day
ago
On Tuesday, the Federal CTO, Aneesh Chopra and CIO Vivek Kundra announced the open government initiative directive. The directive has 4 steps: Publish Government Information Online, Improve the quality of government information, create and
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institutionalize a culture of open government, and create an enabling policy framework for open government.
CTO Chopra and CIO Kundra Launch Open Government Plan
Today at Acquia we are kicking off a webinar series to address the Open Government Directive. Our first Acquia Webinar today is: The Open Government Directive and Open Source Social Publishing. We will be joined by the NY State Senate CIO, Andrew Hoppin about his movement to implement transparency, participation, efficiency, and collaboration at the state level. If you would like to learn more please register for the webinar and participate in our Q&A session. This will be an ongoing webinar series for all the agencies looking to comply with the various steps of the directive.
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Posted
1 day
ago
I was at DrupalCamp Stockholm, having a great time with our hosts and the other international guests. But there was tension in the air. The chairs of the DrupalCon 2010 bids from Berlin and Copenhagen were both present, and things started to get a
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little heated. To break the tension, we started talking about DrupalCON San Francisco instead.
Specifically, we talked about the, um, colorful history of SF and its residents. Talk quickly turned silly. Morten.dk was renamed "Rainbow Starshine." Peace was restored. And an idea was born: What if we could automatically generate "hippie" names for users when they register for the conference?
Well, we were a little late, but the Rainbow name generator is now live on my site. Maybe it will make it onto the conference site. In the meantime, you can use it to create your own special name.
Try the name generator yourself
If you go to parts of the DrupalCON SF site, you will see that some folks have already started using the tool. Some of us think we should all have such names printed on our official conference badges.
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Posted
1 day
ago
While attending DrupalCampNYC7 this past weekend at NYU Poly, one of the most eye-popping demos I saw was by Roger López, showing off some functionality hiding in the Chaos Tools Suite to empower you to create awesome AJAX functionality, including
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modal dialogs/forms, without writing a single line of javascript. You can read Roger's presentation notes here, which I strongly recommend.
Needless to say, I was immediately jazzed by the possibilities of a clean programmatic mechanism for handling data exchanges of this nature. It's complex work, and doing it on a one-off basis is tricky and prone to error. This is why we're all so lucky to be in the same coding community as Merlinofchaos: not only do we get killer apps like Views, we get the infrastructure he writes "for himself" that goes along with it!
I was also sort of surprised/chagrined that I'd been working on Panels all year long and never known about this wondrous gem of an API. But that's a problem I know how to solve: I thought, "hey, this should be a sample module included with ctools by default."
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Posted
1 day
ago
At MAPLight I occasionally have to convert CSV files to SQL. The Table Wizard module handles the import well, but the columns are all long text.
I made a quick module to resize the columns. It uses Table Wizard’s built-in analysis and
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Drupal’s Schema API to do some basic conversions. It is nowhere near complete functionality or UI-wise. Just barely good enough to get me through 12 tables with 165 columns.
I put it on GitHub since it is incomplete and I don’t have time to do more work. And I wanted to try out GitHub. [Less]
Posted
2 days
ago
Recently I wrote about my shift to a freelance footing. I've been taking little jobs by myself and with a small group of professionals off and on. I like the small jobs because they usually afford me the opportunity to help individuals or tiny
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organizations (often nonprofit) move onto a brand-new footing in Web technologies.
This journey has brought me to a distinctly not small client nor small job. I've joined the Examiner.com team and will help the company shepherd the Examiner site to Drupal.
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Posted
2 days
ago
When translating the title the automatic alias module creates an alias which can be a very long text in Asian and Middle Eastern languages (Arabic, Hebrew and Persian).
To overcome this it may be better to maintain the English alias. The
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following code does just this. What it does is to copy the alias for the English nodes to the translated nodes.
We will add this feature to our ICanLocalize module, allowing to choose what languages to copy the aliases to.
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