Giase: Missing out financially is Mike Petke's only regret as Red Bulls defender heads into retirement

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I don't think any other player could be a fan favorite both in NY/NJ and in D.C.

"I'm sure a lot of Red Bull supporters don't want to hear this, but I absolutely loved my time in D.C.," Petke said. "It was such a wild ride, something every player should experience. Having experienced that, I can tell you that there would be a hole in my career if I didn't win (a title)."

Giase: Missing out financially is Mike Petke's only regret as Red Bulls defender heads into retirement

Tags: DC United, Soccer

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Drupal deployment process example

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I've become quite dependent on simple paper checklists for getting work done. As an aside, I've started looking at Google's integrated Tasks list and it looks like a nice, feature-light alternative to paper todo lists. Below is an example of the checklist I used when moving some new features to our staging server. It doesn't capture the how of doing each, some are SVN updates while other steps involve config changes via the UI. I've seen a lot of posts about how to track and automate some/all of this but the manual process works fine when you're managing a limited number of sites - less than 2 or 3.

Tags: Drupal

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Drupal: Automatically preprocess css/js for IE

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Internet Explorer has a well know bug limiting the number of stylesheets that in can load, see here. This introduces an inconvenient hassle when it comes time to test CSS updates on a Drupal site. You have to remember to go to the performance page and enable CSS preprocessing to get the number of files down to something IE can handle.

Or, if you prefer and are lazy, you can have it done automatically for you. The following snippet will automatically preprocess both CSS and Javascript files if you browse a site using Internet Explorer. Drop it into the settings.php file on your development/staging/test sites and enjoy the convenience!

if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE')) {
  $conf['preprocess_css'] = 1;
  $conf['preprocess_js'] = 1;
}

Tags: Drupal

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