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Dominique De Cooman

Automated installation of apachesolr multicore localy will save you valueable time.

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Dominique De Cooman

Warming the cache gives your users extremely fast pages all the time. Using varnish, xmlsitemap, cron and bash you can give your clients very fast pages.

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Dominique De Cooman

If you want to create a custom views access plugin the reason for this will be to allow you to have an entry point to add custom logic to protect the access to your view.

Let say you need a finer access control to a view than roles and permissions. For example you are storing properties on a user object who determine if certain user can see certain views independent of their roles.

What we need to do, is to configure our views correctly with a views access plugin.

The hacky way:

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Dominique De Cooman

The goal of automating deployment is to make introducing new features easier. In this post we will learn how to set up a workflow that will move code and configuration of your drupal site from your local development station, to development, to staging and to production all by a using your version control and a push of a button.

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Dominique De Cooman

To speed up indexing of our nodes and making full use of our machine, we want to index our nodes concurrent.

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Dominique De Cooman

This post will give you a list what to check when you go live with a drupal 7 website and how you can control it and automate it. You need to check this go live checklist each time you keep integrating new stuff during deployment to test if everything is still working. To save time this task can be automated.

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Dominique De Cooman

We want to use ctools' modal frames and field collection forms to create a better user experience.

As we know, ctools comes with a lot of useful apis and tools to use in our own modules. One of them is the modal frames.

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Dominique De Cooman

In this blog we ll explain how to set up a geospatial search by radius using apache solr geospatial extension in a drupal 7.

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Dominique De Cooman

In drupal 7 we have something called contextual links. It is that little wheel you see when you hover over blocks so you can edit them in place. It is a great usability improvement but it is not always that clear how to implement them.

The contextual links functionality used to be a contrib module in d6 now it is a core module.

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Dominique De Cooman

This post will explain how to automate installing drupal on a development environment using a stack installer script.

We used the script to speed up a drupal training. With the script and the install profile we could set up a development workstation very fast. Leaving us more time to look at the important stuff.

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