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"Mobile User" Experience The emphasis is not on the device, but on the context of the person using it. I would almost call it 'device agnostic'. What is important is that the user is not sitting at as desk facing a big screen. They could be on the bus, sitting in a cafe or walking back from work. - DrupalEasy

Possible site of the week - sent in 4/29/11 - DrupalEasy

Possible pick of the week. - DrupalEasy

Possible pick of the week. - DrupalEasy

Similar By Terms 2 is a complete rewrite of Similar By Terms as a Views plug-in. It offers much more flexibility than the original version. The module provides a default view which exposes a block which should function exactly the same as Similar By Terms 1. However, Views can be customized or cloned to add different fields, filters, output formats, or any of the good stuff we've come to expect from Views. - DrupalEasy

One solution is to define the -f sendmail parameters in the php.ini 'sendmail_path'. This is no good when running a single Apache instance with PHP as there is only one php.ini and you need to specify different return addresses for each domain. This module resolves the problem by parsing out the return-path set by Drupal modules, and passing it to the sendmail binary using the -f option, rather than sending it only in the $headers parameter of the mail() command. - DrupalEasy

"Acquia has announced plans to make a Software Publishing model..." - DrupalEasy

Potential site of the week. - DrupalEasy

Personally, I would not use all of these tools at once - he give some interesting combinations of tools, though. - DrupalEasy

Potential site of the week. - DrupalEasy

April Fools - DrupalEasy

April Fools - DrupalEasy

April Fools - DrupalEasy

Possible site of the week. - DrupalEasy

for example, if you have a content type of Travel that contains an image field, if a piece of Travel content has no image, Imagepool can select a random image from a pool of Travel images as a stand-in when the node is displayed. - DrupalEasy

Namesake of the Bartik theme passes away. - DrupalEasy

Apache includes the ability to function as a reverse proxy, which means it can be directed to delegate certain requests to another server. I've found two useful applications for mod_proxy recently: mirroring static files from production, and accessing JSON data. - DrupalEasy

possible pick of the week - DrupalEasy

This is the 6th installment of the Drupal 7 Line by Line series of articles. Up to this point in the series I've covered index.php, the basics of the drupal_bootstrap function and have been working through Drupal's bootstrap phases. (Links to earlier articles in the series can be found at the end of this article). - DrupalEasy

The VCS you have constructed is now a reasonable facsimile of Git. The main difference is that Git gives you very nice command lines tools to handle such things as creating new snapshots and switching to old ones (Git uses the term “commit” instead of “snapshot”), tracing history, keeping branch tips up-to-date, fetching changes from other people, merging and diffing branches, and hundreds of other common (and not-so-common tasks). As you continue to learn Git, keep this parable in mind. Git is really very simple underneath, and it is this simplicity that makes it so flexible and powerful. One last thing before you run off to learn all the Git commands: remember that it is almost impossible to lose work that has been committed. - DrupalEasy

NodeStream simplifies the editorial board's workday by means of a smooth work flow for editors and writers. Thanks to different access rights, the editor can easily approve and publish texts; employees can focus on content. In addition, it is easy to set up and simple to change. NodeStream is built on the powerful CMS Drupal, used by The Economist and The Examiner. Drupal and NodeStream are open source software and thus have no license costs. - DrupalEasy

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Dries writes a piece for Forbes.com - DrupalEasy

Share notes about modules, how exportable and stable they are Display shared notes directly in the browser Allow notes to be edited by clicking a link The script works in such a way that when you visit a http://drupal.org/project/* URL, the script will contact the server holding the data (in our case our internal wiki site) and check if there are notes on the project you’re viewing. If there are notes it will show them in the browser - DrupalEasy

* Enable Boost. * the Configuration > Performance page * .htaccess file * Disable unused modules - DrupalEasy

This is a load of FUD. He mentions two modules that don't work for him, and then goes on to say that in fact, there are a lot of great things about Drupal 7 and the state of the contrib repo. - DrupalEasy

Each Drush command can be called from within any other Drush command, spawning a new process and returning structured and meaningful information to the calling script. A more accurate terminology would be that Drush commands all operate on a somewhat RESTful API , which is similar to XMLRPC and other RPC mechanisms that you may already be familiar with. Because of how this feature is implemented in Drush it can not only call Drush commands locally, but it can also call Drush commands on a remote server via SSH. Saved By: Ryan Price | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: drupaleasypodcast, drush, command_line, remote, administration, database, backup - DrupalEasy

Possible site of the week. - DrupalEasy

Drupal's Only Dedicated Print Magazine Drupal Watchdog is a print magazine dedicated entirely to Drupal. Our premiere issue will be given to all attendees of the Chicago Drupalcon. Issue #1 focuses primarily on the recently released Drupal 7. Get Drupal Watchdog mailed to your home or office anywhere in the world! Within the Drupal source code there is a function called "watchdog()" which is used to report what is going on in a Drupal website. Our goal is that Drupal Watchdog Magazine be a fantastic resource for tracking what is going on in the Drupal World. - DrupalEasy

Pet peeve - placeholder modules. They should be banned. - DrupalEasy