Site Development

Recently, i've had a few requests from design companies asking how they can make Drupal Admin UI feel a little like Wordpress because a lot of their clients have become accustom to using Wordpress admin UI and is comfortable with administering their site with a separation of the front and backend. However, these design companies are trying to move away from Wordpress and offer Drupal as a long term solution. Furthermore, the design companies didn't want me to spend a lot of time customizing Drupal so that the admin UI is a bit more like Wordpress. read more »

Osmobi makes any Drupal or Joomla site mobile. Osmobi is powered by the open source platform Siruna.

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:

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

Make sure you restart your web server.

As Drupal comes ever more popular, it will inevitable become more visible and targeted by hackers. We have seen it happen with other popular open source projects like Wordpress and Joomla. There'll always be a threat to security whether it be open source or proprietary CMS (closed source). Therefore, precautions should be taken to prevent and secure your site as much as possible. read more »

MAMP 1.8.2 has been released and all is looking good. So what's been updated in this package:

• compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
• Apache 2.0.63
• MySQL 5.1.37
• PHP 4.4.9 & 5.2.10
• APC 3.0.19 & APC 3.1.2
• eAccelerator 0.9.5.3
• XCache 1.2.2
• phpMyAdmin 2.11.9.5 & phpMyAdmin 3.2.0.1
• Zend Optimizer 3.3.3

The rest of the info can be found here: Version History (MAMP) read more »

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.

• Screencast 1: Installing Drush and getting started
• Screencast 2:Using the drush dl and info commands