There has been a boatload of discussion amongst the Drupal community regarding best practices for managing developement, staging) and production environments with a Drupal codebase. The reason this is usually a sore subject for many Drupalers lies in Drupal's heavily database dependent site configuration and management. Thus, it becomes more difficult to manage Drupal sites across different development environments with the tools typically used for this.

Software to help ...

One thing that always bothered the crap out of me about OS X was their implementation of 'Terminal'. Staring at a black box with only white text is quite unnerving. I'm not sure how their seemingly graphically-anal designers at Apple could handle it. Anyways, there's fortunately an easy solution to this ginormous problem.

There's an excellent tutorial that runs through the process of customizing just about everything ...

Well, after being one-upped, two-upped and three-upped by Pete and Lauren, I decided to go out and get myself a snazzy new grill so I can get back into the cooking scene. When I say 'back into', I mean 'start'. My psuedo-chef position at Wegmans doesn't count, I don't think.

So after a successful BBQ on Sunday, the grill had been cristened. This evening, I picked up some ...

So now that I'm dipping into Drupal module development a bit, I ran into some 'roadblocks' that were fairly difficult to discover via default Drupal documentation.

The first thing you should do if you're starting your first Drupal 6 module, is follow along with Drupal.org's Module Development Guide for Drupal 6. That will step you through everything you'll need to know to write your first ...

In concept, Apple's Time Capsule seems like a great product. For the first few days, it seemed to work great. Eventually, however, it started randomly disconnecting me every 5 seconds. Aside from generating a cool effect of Adium popping up and down rapidly, it was extremely frustrating. My only solution was to restart the Time Capsule.

So the disconnects happen about once a week now, sometimes twice. I could ...

Really just brainstorming here. I think Drupal would truly benefit from a 'Profiler' module of sorts. We discussed this briefly at one of the sessions at Drupalcon. One of the biggest roadblocks for Drupal development is that, by nature, the codebase is heavily reliant on database configuration. This makes 'development to production' processes cumbersome.

What if there were a module that essentially 'recorded' actions taken upon a database in a ...

Yeah, the title is pretty long. I really couldn't come up with anything better. Anyways, after the recent switch to Media Temple for all of my sites as a result of this debachle, I needed some peace of mind with regards to file changes and database backups for each of my sites. I also thought it'd be cool if I didn't have to do anything and would ...

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This morning, while walking into the doors of the BCEC for another wonderful (and last) day at Drupalcon Boston 2008, I run my normal routine. What does that consist of? Well, nearly everything I do is either preceded or followed by some sort of Subversion interaction. I wrote about my Subversion obsession a few months ago. So normally I go about my business happily, whistling away while I commit changes ...

Please note: this tutorial was written for Drupal 5.

Continuing from Part I and Part II in our 'From HTML mockup to a full Drupal site: a tutorial' series, this final part will focus on integrating our finished HTML / CSS mockup into our now final Drupal site. As I mentioned before, I'm omitting quite a bit of advanced (and some not-so-advanced) theming practices, intentionally. What were focusing on is ...