Don’t follow the advice posted below to “optimize” your site based on the user agent string. The author suggests doing so in the page.tpl.php for your theme. However, this means you can NEVER turn caching on for your site. Also, the uses ereg functions to “detect” the device. These functions are now deprecated by PHP, […]
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While Panels is great for controlling the layout of drupal pages, there are times when you can’t use the module to theme a page. For uncached content, it does introduce some performance overhead into the drupal request change. It can also be tedious to migrate changes from one environment to the other if you don’t
I'm testing using Disqus for commenting here. Drupal's core comment module is adequate but Disqus provides a number of features, particluarly integration with Facebook and Twitter, that would require more work otherwise. There's even a Disqus module that integrates the plugin as a block. While it doesn't integrate with Mollom, it does integrate with Akismet,
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
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
This sounds like a really useful module for synchronizing content from Evernote. I've been using Evernote off and on, and have it on my phone as well. Its a great tool for taking notes and having them available everywhere. Pulling it all into Drupal parallels what I've been doing with my blog, by pulling in
This is a concise example showing how you can use the Features module to bundle configurations in Drupal into a module. It's great to see the Drupal community moving towards using code to capture, reuse, and deploy configuration settings. It's been the biggest pain point in working with Drupal for me. One of the things
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Yeah, I'm not going to use that line but Drupal is going to be used in the next Star Trek movie. Pretty cool, but I wonder what took it so long? I bet there's a huge overlap between the two communities. It's no secret that many of us here at Palantir are fans of the
I was asked the following question today and this is my stab at a response. I’d appreciate and welcome any feedback if you’ve worked with a Drupal multi-site instance. Can you clone sites? Or would you have to clone every part of a site and reassemble it for each site? It depends on what you
Now that the MLS season is close to an end, the playoff picture will start to come into clearer view. Using the Embed Widget module for Drupal, I was able to take a block containing the standings as a single table and make it available as a widget that anyone can put on their own