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configuration
golive
webmaster
d7tip
automation
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Tue, 2012-05-29 14:31

Drupal 7 tip: How to automate and control your go live checklist

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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ctools
modal frames
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Fri, 2011-12-30 08:50

Drupal 7 Using ctools' modal frames and field collection forms to create a better user experience

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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search
apachesolr
local solr
geospatial
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Tue, 2011-12-27 10:38

Drupal 7 local apache solr: Geospatial search by radius

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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interface
d7tip
usability
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Mon, 2011-08-08 22:07

Drupal 7 tip: Add contextual links to anything

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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installation
training
automation
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Wed, 2011-04-06 15:35

Automate installing drupal on ubuntu for drupal training purpose

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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staging
testing
training
quality
enterprise
automation
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Wed, 2011-03-09 19:50

A Drupal Enterprise Quality Experience

This post will summarize the experience of introducing drupal into an enterprise. How we achieved a level of quality in drupal development needed for an enterprise application.

It will cover:

  • Setup : The drupal 6 site and the integration with the other apps in the enterprise.
  • Level of quality
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best-practices
staging
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Sat, 2010-10-23 20:14

The drupal staging problem

I've ran into this one quit a few times. We have live production environment, a staging environment, an integration environment and a local development environment. This classic software development chain goes upstream from production to dev and downstream from dev to production.

Upstream

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import
cron
batch api
drush
apache solr
indexing
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Thu, 2010-08-05 14:40

Doing BIG imports and apache solr indexing using drush, batch api and cron

By big imports I mean creating millions of nodes and indexing them fo apache solr search. We needed to import 1 million records from file, 3 nodes for each record, one in each of our 3 languages. These nodes also had 3 taxonomy vocabularies, around 30 cck fields and we also needed to join another table containing a spatial coordinates for our geo field.

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rules
event
tokens
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Tue, 2010-06-29 22:21

Drupal custom Rules how to write your own events conditions, actions and custom object (+custom tokens)

The rules module is a very powerful module that allows you to make things react in your site when certain events happen (like a comment has been made) under certain conditions (for example when the user has role x).

A lot of events, conditions and actions are allready out of the box or provided by some contrib modules who have rules integration.

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forms
webform
Posted by: 
Dominique De Cooman
On: 
Sat, 2010-06-26 15:37

Drupal webform trick submitting hidden values

How to submit some hidden values along with a drupal webform? Our example. We have job node (nid 1) and we want to go to a webform to apply for the job. So we build a link on our node pointing to the webform node (nid 2).
In the node template type quickly a url: node , nid webform, nid job node

<?php
print l('Apply for this job', 'node/2/1');
?>

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