Development Tools

Oct

Installing uploadprogress on MAMP

Tue, 13/10/2009 - 19:56 — admin

When you use Drupal imagefield or filefield module, you'll have noticed that it uses uploadprogress to show a nifty progress bar. This is optional but it's a nice thing to have and it's actually not that difficult to install. Just follow this article: http://smbjorklund.no/how-enable-pecl-uploadprogress-extention-mamp

UPDATE:

Here is the extension that has been precomplied so you can just simply drop it into your folder and activate it. The zip file contains uploadprogress.so and zip.so (so you can use zip extension files).

Download: extension.zip

Unzip the file and place both *.so file into directory: /MAMP/bin/php5/lib/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/

Then add this line:

extension=uploadprogress.so
extension=zip.so

to your php.ini file which can be found at /MAMP/Config/php5/

Make sure you restart your web server.

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Oct

Is Drupal a desginers' nightmare or it's just not ready for them yet?

Wed, 07/10/2009 - 15:08 — admin

Image taken from Barnoz

Recently, there has been a lot of debate in the Drupal community surrounding the questions of "Is Drupal for developers only?" and "How we can get more designers involved?". It's a passionate subject for many who want to see further growth in the community and wider acceptance from both developers and designers to the end-users. read more »

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Sep

Screencast 1 and 2 on using Drush 2.0

Fri, 04/09/2009 - 12:18 — duvien

For those of you that prefer using a command line to get the job done quicker (because it is generally faster than clicking around a GUI), you love Drush.

Drush is a command utility module for Drupal that allow a site admin to execute commands in a terminal window. Here is an excellent screencast by Owen Barton showing you how to use Drush.

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Aug

Git for Subversion users, Part 1: Getting started

Thu, 13/08/2009 - 01:55 — admin

Distributed version control systems (DVCSs) offer a number of advantages over centralized VCSs, and for Subversion users looking to explore this model, Git is a great place to start. Using Subversion as a baseline, this articles shows how to install Git, set up a remote repository, and begin using basic Git commands.

Full article on IBM website

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Jul

Importing large DB file into mySQL

Thu, 09/07/2009 - 15:23 — admin

Phpmyadmin is a great DB tool but can really suck on trying to import large DB files. Another much better option is to use bigdump.

Over at DrupalLab, they have written some easy step by step guide on using bigdump.

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Feb

Yummy FTP, go take a bite out of it and it wouldn't be the last

Wed, 11/02/2009 - 20:24 — duvien

FTP programs isn't something i like using especially when you have SSH access to a remote server. We've all had our fair share of frustration when it comes to downloading or uploading many files to our web server having to sit and wait a long time. Worst still when you suddenly realised you have been disconnected from the server or that the connection breaks while away to fetch a cup of coffee, then having to start FTP'ing again. read more »