Drupal Development Environment on Mac OS X 10.6 - Multisite Capable
I've begun working a lot more with Drupal multisites, as doing so saves a lot of time in certain situations (usually, when you have a large group of sites that use the same kinds of Drupal modules, but...
View ArticleMy Simple, but Nerve-Calming, drush Update Workflow
Just posted for my own reference - here's my workflow for updating a D6 (probably also D7) website using drush. Comprehensive information about all drush commands can be found on the http://drush.ws/...
View ArticleVisibility for Mac Released
Today we released Visibility for Mac, a free Mac OS X application that helps you make invisible files visible, easily. Check it out!
View ArticleScaling the Drupal Community - Notes and Reflections
The sparsely-attended 'Scaling the Drupal Community' session, led by webchick and heyrocker, was one of the few sessions I've attended at DrupalCon Chicago that held my interest throughout. And, since...
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CNL - Catholic News Live iOS/Android Mobile App
The second app developed by Midwestern Mac is Catholic News Live, or CNL for short. This app, which is the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad/Android interface for the content aggregated by the Catholic News Live...
View ArticleAll the Hubbub About Drupal 7
Drupal 7. Is it ready?That seems to be the general question in the air over the past few weeks discussedbymany in the community. There's a problem with this question, though... I think many people look...
View ArticleWrapper function for simple drupal_mail() sending in Drupal 7
Email is such a pain (I should know, as I'm currently working on a site that's sending 10-20,000 emails per day to 40,000+ users. Spam prevention, SPF records, bounce handling, abuse reports,...
View ArticleProblems with Android's Back Button
Android's back button is a problem. A big problem.Others have already identified this in a broad sense, but I wanted to give a few concrete examples of why I (as a guy who wants to simply port a couple...
View ArticleSimple Git feature branch workflow
After reading A successful Git branching model [nvie.com], which I consider one of the best graphical/textual depictions of the ideal Git model for development teams (and most large projects), I simply...
View ArticleQuestions about Wordpress
Having been away from the WordPress scene since version 2.x days (I think the last time I launched a WordPress website was around 2009), I recently had reason to develop some WordPress plugins, and I...
View ArticleRunning Vagrant + VirtualBox from an External Drive
I have a MacBook Air with a 128 GB SSD, so I'm always in a bit of a crunch for space on my hard drive. Developing with local VMs provisioned by Vagrant and VirtualBox makes my Drupal (and other)...
View ArticleD8CX at MWDS - Porting Wysiwyg Linebreaks to Drupal 8
I have been at the Midwest Drupal Summit for the past few days, focusing on #D8CX and reducing Drupal 8's technical debt (at least, a tiny bit of it!).
View ArticleEnsuring Drupal email doesn't get sent from a local development environment
It seems most developers I know have a story of running some sort of batch operation on a local Drupal site that triggers hundreds (or thousands!) of emails that are sent to the site's users, causing...
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