Drupal

29 Jun

Speed up loading Drupal database into mysql

Published by simon

I've developed a little script over the years that dumps production databases, and loads them locally on demand, and its been very handy.

However, it was taking ages to load a database on a Virtualbox ubuntu environment I use for debugging with Zend.

A quick look into it, and I found that i'd put --skip-extended-insert on the mysqldump command sometime in the past.

I changed that to --add-locks --extended-insert and the loading has gone from over 12 hours (I was asleep, not waiting for it ;-) down to 30 minutes.

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Drupal
01 Apr

10+ years of Drupal

Published by simon

Drats, I missed my drupal.org 10th birthday!

http://drupal.org/user/143

I was actually using Drupal before drupal.org existed, and my http://dirtbike.ws website - currently re-branding as http://mydirtbike.com - would be amongst the longest running Drupal based sites there is.

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Drupal
04 Nov

New CCK module to accept signatures on *Pad devices

Published by simon

With all the new *Pad style devices coming out now, I wanted to be able to get signoff by customers on the spot using a signature for quotes, jobs etc in our drupal based ERP system.

This module facilitates that by allowing creation of a CCK field which accepts input via mouse, finger, stylus or anything that can draw on the screen.

You can grab the cck module here:

http://drupal.org/project/signhere

or try it out for yourself here:

Topics 

Drupal, CCK
04 Nov

Getting twitter<->drupal integration going again

Published by simon

With luck, this will get twitter posts working again from my Drupal site. If your twitter module has stopped working, this guide helped me get it going again.

http://fatedtoend.com/content/how-get-drupal-post-updates-twitter-again-...

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Drupal, Twitter
02 Nov

drupaldownunder registrations are now open

Published by simon

The guys at http://drupaldownunder.org/ have been busy, and registrations for the biggest Drupal gathering in Australia are now open.

Dries Buytaert, Josh Koenig, Allie Micka and Josh Waihi are some of the Drupal rock stars coming, get your ticket and book your accommodation, it should be a great couple of days.

 

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Drupal, Conference
03 Apr

More than 9 years using and programming with Drupal

Published by simon

Oh wow, I was just updating issues on the erp project, and happened to notice that my user profile says 9 years and 4 days  since I joined drupal.org.

Given that I was already getting into Drupal before drupal.org even existed, that means i've been using this CMS for a Looooooong time.

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Drupal
09 Jun

Yay, got adsense & analytics working together again!

Published by simon

For about a month, the adsense clicks and impressions have stopped showing up in my google account, and its been driving me batty tryig to figure out what it was.

I finally found it last night, a tiny setting in the drupal google analytics module in advanced settings where is says "Track AdSense ads - If checked, your AdSense ads will be tracked in your Google Analytics account."

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Drupal, Adsense, Blog
11 May

Twitter + Drupal + Pidgin

Published by simon

You've been hearing a lot about it in the news, and you're only going to hear more and more. If your business isn't looking into twitter, you're missing a boat thats growing massively - http://xlnk.me/16.

There are ways you can take advantage of twitter, the great thing about twitter is that you dont have to have a long spiel about what you've been doing. This, and other "blogs" i've done do take time, and a real concerted effort to do. Twitter "tweets" are a lot more casual.

16 Mar

Youtube API

Published by simon

I've been working with the Youtube API - http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_php.html - over the weekend, and have discovered that the documentation is not exactly up to date, and some things just dont work.

I may have to resort to the Drupal module - http://drupal.org/project/youtube_api/ - Even though it looks a little neglected, at least I can fix and send patches back to that.

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API, Drupal, Youtube