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crotown.com returns

Posted Tue, 10/09/2012 - 13:52 by Steve

After a break traced to losing a credit card right before having an excellent summer vacation, I'm proud to announce the return of my website crotown.com. The first site to return here was msct.crotown.com which my wife needed to be up at the start of the school year, since she uses it to teach the kids of Greenfield about using computers.

My postings will be rare, due to my employment at Acquia, but I am glad to have my web presence back!

Don't leave behind .htaccess

Posted Tue, 05/10/2011 - 09:50 by Steve

When copying the files of a Drupal install, do not forget to copy Drupal's .htaccess file. If you've had the vexing problem where a site you've just manipulated has clean URLs turned on but they suddenly don't work, this may well be the reason. It took me fixing this problem many times before I realized what was going on.

Scenario

You make a directory for a new site, cd to the new directory, and use drush to download Drupal.

% mkdir mynewsite
% cd mynewsite
% drush dl drupal

RealChat 7.x-1.0-beta2 Release

Posted Tue, 04/19/2011 - 09:45 by Steve

I just made a release of the RealChat Module on Drupal.org that is fully compatible with Drupal 7.0. Due to a small change in Drupal 7 core before release, RealChat 7.x-1.0-alpha2 developed an error in detecting user picture use on the Drupal site that caused it to crash when you hit the "Chat Now!" link. The new release no longer has this problem and is now recommended for Drupal 7.

The Importance of Preserving Context in Web Development

Posted Fri, 04/08/2011 - 11:04 by Steve

This morning, when I got down to the particular work task at hand for Imbee, I switched to Eclipse and found it stopped at a breakpoint I had set when debugging a certain crucial issue in my local copy of imbee.com. This was exactly my context from last night.

Getting phpinfo() output from any Drupal site

Posted Thu, 02/17/2011 - 10:34 by Steve

Seeing the output of phpinfo() is as easy as going to URL /admin/reports/status/php (e.g. http://www.example.com/admin/reports/status/php) on any Drupal site, when logged in to administer the site. This is quicker than writing a one-line PHP program yourself to call this function as suggested in a previous post on finding, changing, and verifying changes to your PHP initialization file.

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