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Was migrating a few sites between Drupal-7.7 and Drupal-7.10 platforms and came across the following PHP notice:
Notice: Undefined index: distribution_name in drupal_install_profile_distribution_name() (line 202 of /srv/drupal-7.10/includes/install.inc).
Git reset submodules 09 Dec 2011
I'm managing a large number of git submodules on a particular project, and found their working directories often became dirty in various ways (i.e. file perms changing with an Aegir deployment).
Growl/Email notifications for Irssi 20 Jul 2011
I wanted to get notifications for mentions/messages on a remotely screened session of Irssi, and came across a cool notify.io irssi script.
Aegir: custom apache config per site 02 Apr 2011
The Aegir handbook has a handy tip on injecting into site vhosts. It's pretty straightforward to extend this to work for specific sites.
Add custom view modes in Drupal 7 26 Jan 2011
You can add extra display modes using hook_entity_info_alter.
Say you have a custom module 'myModule' and want to add a custom view to the node entity:
Ubuntu Install PECL uploadprogress Library 21 Jan 2011
Drupal 6/7 make use of the PECL uploadprogress library for upload progress. This is how to install it.
OS X: Safely Rename System Folders 23 May 2010
I finally upgraded my 3 year old Macbook Pro this week, and decided against migrating files from the old one to start fresh, only moving things as I found I needed them.
Seeing as I generally have all my video related files in the Movies folder, I thought it would be better to rename this to Video, but it turns out you can't just change the name of System Folders by hitting return in Finder.
Drupal: get nodes by type 15 Apr 2010
It appears that if you're trying to get nodes by type in your Drupal module or theme (i.e. not on a page, in which case you should use Views) then a quick and easy way to get them is through an SQL query.
Textmate mods that will make you happy 17 Mar 2010
A little while ago I found some additions for Textmate that I reckon have made it just that much more pleasant to use.
Better Firebug and jQuery logging 23 Jan 2010
Firebug's console.log() often breaks Javascript for users without Firebug (or a Webkit based browser), and seeing how much we love chaining with jQuery, there are two simple things you can do to make logging in both better.
