Exactly what I have been waiting for....
To quote from Apple 2.0....
You are never too old to have a good childhood!
Create project releases on Drupal CVS
I wanted to create a release of both the Dark and Sodelicious themes, and had an interesting time doinf it.
There is a lot of information on the Drupal website, notably the CVS quick-start guide for module and theme maintainers (http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs/quickstart).
In short, I had to clean up all the branches I had mistakenly created by
cvs tag -dB DRUPAL-6--1
where DRUPAL-6--1 is the branch name to be deleted.
Automatically backup Drupal databases through cron
With my hosting provider I have all Drupal sites installed under my public_html directory. Each Drupal instance uses a different database. I could generate a mysqldump command for each instance - but that would become out of date very quickly with the immanent upgrades to version 6.
The solution was to create a small script that searches all the sites folders for a settings.php file, extracts the relevant database connection information, and dumps and gzips the database.
ImageMagick on Mac OSX
For variuos readons I need ImageMagick. Finding a good package can be problematic, and finding one that has all the re-requisites can be even more problematic.
libjpeg
I downloaded libjpeg, extracted the source and
./configure --enable-shared --enable-static --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
libpng
Again, I found the source for libpng and
./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
Blog Theme for Expression Engine convert to Drupal
I have never used the Expression Engine (EE) before, so this is a complete experiment. Let's see how it goes...
page.tpl.php
From what I can see, EE has a file called index.txt that displays almost everything. This file is our page.tpl.php candidate.
- Remove the
{assign_variable:master_weblog_name="journal"}from the beginning of the index.txt file
{assign_variable:main_template_group="bartelme"}
Convert a Word Press theme to Drupal
The example WP theme I am trying to use is sodelicious_black.
page.tpl.php
Combine header.php, page.php and footer.php into on new file called page.tpl.php. In this new page.tpl.php file:
Added "The Dark Theme" to Drupal Themes
I have just added The Dark Theme to Drupal Themes. I thought that it would have been harder than it was. Here is what I did
- export CVSROOT=:pserver:_userid_@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib
- cvs login (entered password when prompted)
- cvs checkout -l contributions/themes
- cd contributions/themes/
- cp -r _path-to_/dark .
- cvs add dark
- cvs add dark/*
- cvs dark/images/*
- cvs commit -m "Initial commit."
Later I made an update to the screenshot, so I have to create a new version, as follows
Postfix, Amavis, SpamAssassin, dspam and ClamAV working together on Mac OSX (Leopard)
After my recent upgrade to Leopard, I decided to upgrade my mail system which includes Fetchmail, Postfix, Amavis (SpamAssassin, dspam, DCC, Razor, ClamAV) and Courier-IMAP.
Beer runners’ flour trail a recipe for trouble
Hashers around the world beware!! Make sure you keep the receipts from the supermarket for your flour when setting your trails...
*Pair arrested after marking a powdery path through IKEA parking lot*
Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.
The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.
Updated the navigation controls in drupal
While working on customising my theme, I noticed that all the symbols with the 'first', 'previous', 'next' and 'last' all ended up as question marks.I changed them to their numerical equivalent, and even though the symbols re-appeared, my HTML validator plugin in FF complained.So I did the following..
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