1/6/2011 in Drupal by micah:
It may seem odd that I spent Drupal 7 release day installing Drupal on a Microsoft server platform, but that's what I did. Honestly, the timing was coincidental. One of my current projects has been to stage up a new Windows 2008 Server to replace an aged Windows 2000 web server, and yesterday just...
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9/17/2008 in Drupal by micah:
Note: I've updated this tutorial for Drupal 6 in this post on the Geeks and God website.
Old school web design meant including a page full of links to other websites. As older sites are transitioned into current practice, many site owners expect this trend to continue. And in some ways it has, most...
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9/17/2008 in Drupal by micah:
Note: I've updated this tutorial for Drupal 6 in this post on the Geeks and God website.
This example "mysite" module demonstrates hook_form_alter. There is a lot of good info out there about hook_form_alter, but I found very few examples that put all of the pieces of custom module creation...
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9/2/2008 in Drupal by micah:
There are a lot of other backup scripts for Drupal on the web, but I promised somebody I'd post mine in response to this week's episode of the Geeks and God podcast. There are variations based on how the different servers are set up, but here's a basic summary of how I do it.
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7/19/2008 in Drupal by micah:
Matt Farina recently posted a question on FriendFeed about increasing adoption of Drupal among churches.
I'm wondering how we can make Drupal easier for churches to adopt. Drupal for Churches distribution? Documentation targeted at churches? Thoughts?
I think four factors are that churches are...
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5/7/2008 in Drupal by micah:
I just posted a video over on the HFCC Help Desk Web Site that describes the Drupal-powered web site that we use to manage the college's Student and Financial Management System, lovingly dubbed "HANK" or HFCC's Automated Network of Knowledge. (Yeah, it's weak. Somebody actually suggested an...
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2/15/2008 in Drupal by micah:
Drupal 6 was officially released this week! When I started my current Drupal installation series, I said that Drupal 5 would be around for a while, and I wouldn't jump to Drupal 6 right away. To be fair, I haven't tried out Drupal 6 at all yet. It looks like a very exciting release, and there are...
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9/12/2006 in Drupal by micah:
What led me to choose Drupal as a website platform? To answer that, I first need to explain what led me to choose a Content Management System (CMS) in the first place.
I've been creating and maintaining web sites since 1995. Some good, some bad, some in between. Most of this was monolithic design...
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