Review of Drupal 7: Visual QuickStart Guide
Planet DrupalBook Reviews(Disclaimer: The book for review was provided gratis by the publisher.)Tom Geller's new book Drupal 7: Visual Quickstart Guide is a concise, dense sitebuilder/administrator's...
View ArticleReview of Packt's Drupal 7 First Look
Planet DrupalBook Reviews(Disclaimer: The book for review was provided gratis by the publisher.)Drupal 7 First Look, by Mark Noble (Packt) should probably be named "What Drupal 6 Developers Need to...
View ArticlePushing and Deleting Git Topic Branches (Screencast)
gitPlanet DrupalCreating topic branches (also called "feature branches") is easy in Git and is one of the best things about Git. Sometimes we also want to get those pushed from our local repo for...
View ArticleDrupal Patching, Committing, and Squashing with Git
Planet Drupalgitgit rebaseBack in the bad old days (like 2 weeks ago) there was exactly one way to create patches and exactly one way to apply them. Now we have so many formats and so many ways to work...
View ArticlePlaying around with Git
Planet Drupalgitgit rebaseEven if you've just arrived into the Gitworld, you've already noticed that things are really fast and flexible. Some people claim that the most important thing about the...
View ArticleDrupal Testbots are now running on the OSUOSL Supercell
Planet DrupalYou probably know that all Drupal core patches and commits get tested using the simpletest testing system, but you may not know how. Essentially, every time a patch is posted and placed in...
View ArticleChanging a theme name (or adding a subtheme) without losing block and theme...
Planet DrupalThis happens to me periodically, so I thought I'd write it down.Situation: An existing site has had its theme hacked in place, or just has a stock theme deployed and I need a subtheme. But...
View ArticleHandling the new .gitignore file in D7 and D8
Planet DrupalgitDrupal 7 and Drupal 8 recently added a default (and sensible) .gitignore file to the standard repository, and while this solves some problems, it has also caused some confusion....
View ArticleSimpler Rebasing (avoiding unintentional merge commits)
git rebasePlanet DrupalgitExecutive summary: Set up to automatically use a git pull --rebasePlease just do this if you do nothing else:git config --global branch.autosetuprebase always About rebasing...
View ArticleDrupal.org is a cesspool of undifferentiated **** (oops... content, that is)
Planet DrupalOops. I can't believe I said that.Drupal has a long tradition of insisting that everybody's contribution is equal, that every piece of content is equal. We have to stop that.It's nearly...
View ArticleFixing a Broken Drupal 7 Registry
Planet DrupalIn Drupal 7 we have a very nice "registry" that registers what PHP classes should be loaded from what files.Unfortunately you can get the system into a state where it can't bootstrap to a...
View ArticleManaging Site-owner Comment Notifications Using Triggers and Actions
Planet DrupalTriggers and actions are a core feature of Drupal and have been for a really long time. But lots of people don't know that they can actually be useful for some very basic and important...
View ArticleWhat is Burnout?
Planet DrupalBurnoutThis article is one of a series in preparation for the Burnout core conversation at Drupalcon London. This article will discuss what burnout is; future posts will cover how...
View ArticleWhat Can Individuals Do To Prevent Burnout?
Planet DrupalBurnoutThis post is one of a series in preparation for the Burnout core conversation at Drupalcon London. The first post discussed what burnout is; this one talks about what individuals...
View ArticleHow Does the Drupal Community Burn People Out?
Planet DrupalBurnoutThis post is one of a series in preparation for the Burnout core conversation at Drupalcon London. The first post discussed what burnout is; the second is about what individuals can...
View ArticleWhat can the Drupal Community do about Burnout?
Planet DrupalBurnoutThis post is the last in a series in preparation for the Burnout core conversation at Drupalcon London. The first post discussed what burnout is; the second is about what...
View ArticleDrupal Community Conflict Resolution (and Twitter)
Planet DrupalWe value our community like a family, and have put loads of energy into the Drupal world. But we have some problems, and it's probably time for some discussion about our community manners...
View ArticleHappy Notes! (About *not* burning out!)
BurnoutPlanet DrupalAs you know, I've been writing and talking and thinking about burnout lately.One of the key causes of burnout is the situation where we lack control over what we do.For a long time,...
View ArticleDrush, File Permissions, Web Servers, and the coming Armageddon
Planet DrupaldrushThe marvelous drush makes an enormous number of things possible that would otherwise be tedious at best, and allows us to automate a shocking number of Drupal tasks.But it has a dark...
View ArticleDrupal Deployment with Git Submodules
gitPlanet Drupal(There are screencasts illustrating these concepts at the bottom.)I've been using git submodules for Drupal site deployment for quite awhile now, and I wanted to share my experience...
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