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Better than Geben 8 Apr 2013 | 06:24 pm
Geben is an xdebug client that runs in emacs. It's a useful debugging tool, and an impressive piece of open source software. Don't think that I don't appreciate geben when I say that the project has b...
Finding run-time Drupal errors in Emacs 28 Nov 2012 | 04:15 am
Earlier I stumbled on a nifty compile-mode trick for emacs, and I used it to quickly jump to errors reported by coder.module. Here's another useful one, to quickly find errors and warnings at run-time...
Drupal Contrib Attribution and Credit with Magit for Emacs 7 Nov 2012 | 12:31 am
Third-party Drupal modules, like Drupal itself, are a community effort. I maintain several of these modules, and they are made better when helpful users submit patches to the modules' issue queues. W...
Drupal 7 User IDs - Not Consecutive 15 Sep 2012 | 03:15 am
Putting together a new Drupal site, I had a puzzling moment when I noticed a new user's ID was number 15. This was mysterious because the site had only 4 users on it. And just moments before I had cre...
Coder.module for Emacs Users 8 Aug 2012 | 11:39 am
For Drupal developers who don't already know, coder.module is a useful helper. It helps ensure your code obeys Drupal standards, and in many cases catches potential errors before they happen. Anyone m...
Rsync to Update a Drupal Website 22 Oct 2011 | 06:33 pm
I saw a recent post by Brandon Tate about using rsync and I wanted to share that... a) I'm a big fan of rsync, and b) I've used rsync for some time to keep Drupal websites up-to-date Typically, I c...
Drupal Staging Problem (revisited) 22 Oct 2011 | 05:58 pm
As a freelancer and Drupal specialist, I've worked with a number of website-building teams. It seems like each group reinvents solutions to the problem of sharing settings between multiple copies of D...
Drupal Imagecache 404 "Unable to Find" Tip 20 Mar 2011 | 09:12 am
Here's a little tip for developers who encounter "unable to find" errors from Drupal's imagecache module... Background: As a website developer, I often run a local copy of a website on my own server....
I don't git it 20 Mar 2011 | 04:56 am
Adding a tag to a git tree is not hard, as long as you know the secret parameters. Deleting a tag is another story. Here's what you'd expect to work... Despite the assurances "Deleted tag..." and "E...
Why I Like the Drupal Community 25 Jan 2011 | 08:40 am
Last night, I updated this blog to the latest version of Drupal. In doing so, I left access to the devel.module wide open to anyone who visits the site. I hadn't noticed I had done that, and it was a ...
