Drupal For Facebook

"Bring the Power of Drupal to Facebook Applications"

Sep 26, 2007
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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• Drupal
• Facebook

Normally wouldn't post a link to something without testing it out ourselves first (that's just not how we roll), but this one seemed worth sharing right away.

Saw this link come across Scoble's shared feed and was absolutely intrigued.   Seems one Mister Dave Cohen is working on a method for throwing your existing Drupal content over onto your Facebook account.  Also apparently will give Drupal developers a handy and familiar way to create Facebook apps. Pretty damn cool ...

What's Wrong with Dell's Picture?

Sep 24, 2007
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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• WTF

It's been a busy couple of weeks for your friendly neighborhood Nerds...  Jeremy just flew out to Chicago to meet with a potential new employer, Luke finally used some of the 6.8 million vacation hours he'd accumulated over the past couple years (seriously, Luke, who DOESN'T take a day off in two years?!), Aaron just had another baby (say "hello" to Lars, everyone), and I'm tying up loose ends at my current day job, getting ready to start anew at a new gig on October 1.  Sadly, that means you've all been neglected.

Fear not, gentle readers.  We'll get our act...

End-of-Life for PostgreSQL 8.0 on Windows

Sep 20, 2007
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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• Drupal
• News
• PostgreSQL

Woke up this morning to find a message in my inbox from the PostgreSQL pgsql-announce listserv with the subject "PostgreSQL 8.0, 8.1 on Windows End-of-Life."  Pretty self-explanatory.

According to the announcement, no more updates for those versions on the Windows platform will be released once version 8.3 hits the shelves later this year.  They recommend that anybody using one of those versions start thinking about upgrading as soon as possible.

Normally, we don't like to just parrot news readily available from other sources, but I didn't see this particul...

Facebook Authentication in Drupal

The facebook_auth Module

Sep 12, 2007
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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• Drupal
• Facebook

Yesterday, that1guy asked if we had played around with Facebook authentication in Drupal in a thread over on Drupal.org. We hadn't yet at the time, but not being the kinds of nerds to back down from a challenge, we started to look into it.

Thankfully, we didn't have to do much. Halkeye's already submitted a dev version of a Facebook authentication module for Drupal called, strangely enough,

Drupal Theming

A standards approach to custom Drupal theme creation

Sep 10, 2007
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Submitted By: Jeremy Caldwell
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• (X)HTML
• CSS
• Drupal
• JavaScript

After working with Drupal for over a year now I have learned many different ways to go about creating a custom Drupal theme. I have tried taking existing Drupal themes such as Garland and Blue Marine and hacking them to pieces while inserting my DIVs and classes trying to get things to work and look right. That just creates a huge mess of code and often contains unneeded elements (code bloat = not a good thing).

I've found that the best method for me to create custom Drupal themes is to first code up the site using static HTML/CSS, as in create an index.html file and go to town. I al...

Another Drupal Module You Need

Content Construction Kit (CCK)

Sep 08, 2007
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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• Drupal

Last time I blabbed about Drupal modules, I talked about how you better download and install Pathauto if you want to hang with the cool kids.  If you were paying attention, you noticed that I also promised/threatened to talk about a few other modules we don't think a proper Drupal site can go without.  Prepare yourself for...

The Drupal Cont...

We Screw Up So You Don't Have to...

Three Basic Things You Can Do To Avoid Big SQL Mistakes

Sep 06, 2007
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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• General Advice

We screw up so you don't have to...

My first job was at a local grocery store, cleaning the meat department after their bloody day of cutting, grinding, and packaging was complete.  Not for the squimish, certainly, but nothing too difficult.  After a couple of days on the job, I had everything down to a science and would usually be out the door within a couple of hours.

Part of that daily process involved cleaning out the deep fryer used by the in-store deli.  You emptied the grease into a machine that filtered out all the day's crap, cleaned the fryer from top...