Drupal provides a lot of hooks that you can leverage to make it work exactly how you want. I just finished tracing how some theme preprocessing functions were being executed, and realized that there are some subtle assumptions which I hadn’t understood earlier. These are my notes about two specific preprocessing hooks and when they […]
Lessons from wresting with Drupal’s theme preprocessing functions. Read More »
The only other annoyance was how long it took for them to crack down on this practice. FTC nukes “extended warranty” robocallers from orbit – Ars Technica If you live in the US, you probably got a call—even 911 dispatchers did. That’s because the telemarketers, based in Chicago and Florida, used robodialing systems to call
There are serious scientific studies that refute the whole Vaccines cause Autism myth, so slate asks: Why is Oprah Winfrey promoting vaccine skeptic Jenny McCarthy? – By Arthur Allen – Slate Magazine For some reason, Oprah and the rest of the entertainment world treat McCarthy as if she were Mother Theresa kissing lepers or Nelson
Please don’t get medical advice from Jenny McCarthy. Read More »
On development, testing, and staging site you normally don’t want Drupal’s caching, and javascript/css aggregation features enabled. Drop the following into your sites settings.php file to override these settings. // disable performance caching$conf[‘cache’] = 0;$conf[‘block_cache’] = 0;$conf[‘preprocess_css’] = 0;$conf[‘preprocess_js’] = 0;
Development Enviroment for Drupal is an article I wish I’d found a year ago when it was originaly posted. Its an extensive description of how to use svn and other tools to maintain various Drupal environments synchronized. I’m pleased that it confirms my own decisions about how to use subversion to manage core and site-specific