Embedding Views snippet

Embedding Views snippet

21 June 2010 by jay boodhun

This snippet is useful if you want to embed views in your content without having to install modules to do this small task.

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Pushing staging configs and content to live with Deployment framework

Pushing staging configs and content to live with Deployment framework

25 January 2010 by jay boodhun

Deployment from staging sites to live environment is now easier with the Deployment Framework in Drupal.

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Leveraging Drupal with Pressflow for high performance sites

Leveraging Drupal with Pressflow for high performance sites

10 January 2010 by jay boodhun

Pressflow is a fork of Drupal built with enhanced performance, scalability, and data integrity.

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Convert PX to EM easily

Convert PX to EM easily

09 January 2010 by jay boodhun

Converting Pixels to Ems is not always easy. Most front end developers like using pixels because it's easier to get design cut pixel perfect in html. But using pixels in your css can have a few disadvantages.

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Browser Testing with Adobe BrowserLab

Browser Testing with Adobe BrowserLab

09 January 2010 by jay boodhun

Cross browser testing is one of the hardest challenges for a Web Developer especially when it comes to IE. Why does Microsoft not have browser upgrades like Safari and Firefox? Life would have been much easier.

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Disable Javascript Aggregation on specific pages

Disable Javascript Aggregation on specific pages

26 December 2009 by jay boodhun

Aggregating Javascript which also Gzip and minifies all js files into one may case some problems as TinyMCE or FCK Editor and some jquery functionalities like expand / Collapse might not work.

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Create Drupal User programatically (with profile field values)

Create Drupal User programatically (with profile field values)

15 December 2009 by jay boodhun

While i was working on a project recently, i needed to create user accounts programatically through my own module, save some profile fields information and also assign a role to these new users.

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Drupal for Firebug

Drupal for Firebug

13 December 2009 by jay boodhun

This is a very useful plugin for firefox that can be used to debug query information from your Drupal site whilst in development. This plugin extends the Firefox browser's Firebug module and displays Devel information in your firebug console.

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Create Image Submit Button with hook_form_alter in Drupal

Create Image Submit Button with hook_form_alter in Drupal

10 December 2009 by jay boodhun

With most of the sites i built there has been a need for me to use customised submit buttons. While some of them were fine with just CSS, some required image buttons to be used. Drupal form api doesn't support input submit button type as image, so i had to use the help of PHPtemplate overrides and hook_form_alter to achieve this.

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Displaying CCK content in Drupal Views RSS

Displaying CCK content in Drupal Views RSS

09 December 2009 by jay boodhun

The only thing that shows up using the built-in configuration in Views RSS is the non-cck parts of a node, namely Title ,Body and Teaser.
So after a lot of digging around on Drupal forums i came across this solution which seems to work pretty well.

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