Drupal: Cross-domain Widgets
Drupal is incredibly flexible, but in current versions, lacks the ability to export content easily in the form of widgets. However, the Services module gives you that flexibility in a very easy to use...
View ArticleDrupal and Sane Flash Remoting
On my latest project, I was faced with a challenge: build Flash widgets that displayed dynamic data and could be embedded on any web page. Phase two of the widgets called for user interaction with the...
View ArticleDrupalCon Experiences in Szeged, Hungary
I have been attending DrupalCon this week, hosted in the beautiful Hungarian town of Szeged.I was fortunate in that my company, CommonPlaces, was generous enough to become a silver sponsor for the...
View ArticleHack-proof Your Drupal App - the Video
I had the pleasure of presenting at DrupalCon in Szeged Hungary, and the topic of my presentation was Drupal security from the perspective of the application. I am pleased to be able to share the video...
View ArticleFlex and Drupal Paths
At CommonPlaces, each developer has his or her own sandbox to code in. Each sandbox can run n instances of a Drupal application, which all run out of subdirectories from the developer's web root.read more
View ArticleGet Firefox Ad
This is a pretty cool ad for Firefox that just makes me laugh...Firefox, IE, Opera, Netscape, browsers, funny, ad
View ArticleDrupal and Taxonomy Weights
I recently worked on a project in Drupal that called for a large number of taxonomy terms. I needed to put the terms in a specific order, but unfortunately, I had more terms than Drupal's weight field...
View ArticleNew Drupal Module Released
Back in October, I released my first module for Drupal, the open-source content management system. These days, I seem to be developing exclusively for Drupal, and with a robust API and thriving...
View ArticleApache Solr: Conditionally Display Facet Blocks
In my last post, I showed a method for conditionally displaying facet blocks with Search Lucene, depending on the type of query being performed. This can also be adapted to work for Apache Solr,...
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