Archive

August 7th, 2008

Leveraging Drupal - the book

Well I really got into the idea of Leveraging Drupal (re-use) as opposed to building from scratch, so... I decided to write a book!

Leveraging Drupal http://www.amazon.com/Leveraging-Drupal-Getting-Your-Right/dp/0470410876

May 3rd

Filtering Drupal Views Dynamically (or, "Leverage the big CMS and web application frameworks! Only losers start from scratch!)"

First make a dynamically filtered view on the fly like the big boys do!

Then, stick it in a panel! There are other ways of doing it, but by using this simple method you can easily:

April 26th

Hardy Heron swoops away with my firebug - Drupal to the rescue!

Edit: Solved! Thanks to the comments of several people, I was able to find the magic sequence of steps necessary to fix my specific situation:

April 23rd

Openbravo very cool open source ERP - but configure domain for tomcat before running on a network

Came highly recommended, looks very cool indeed for small and medium business ERP solution... Not a wealth of "newbie" info, but a very cool almost trouble free installation guide makes installation (Java, Ant, Postgres or Oracle, Tomcat -- this is no lightweight) a snap (pretty much) for various Linux distributions:

http://wiki.openbravo.com/wiki/Openbravo_Command_Line_Installation

If you encounter problems, the doctor is in...

April 8th

From the client's spreadsheet data to browseable content -- how to create, populate and manage your business objects in Drupal

[Note: This is a somewhat detailed description of how to leverage content types and views in Drupal, most useful for beginner to intermediate experience level in Drupal Web Application development, or to those evaluating Drupal. It is designed to show how the power of the framework is only apparent after gaining just a little experience with its features].