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Becoming friends with the Drupal Color module — Part 2

15. January 2012 - Sampo Turve

This is a sequel to the post Becoming friends with the Drupal Color module — Part 1. Here we'll check out the advanced (and the coolest) parts of the Color module. If you are not already familiar with Color module, I suggest you take a look at Part 1 since I'm not going to cover the basics in this posts.

Drupal 7 and sites.php

9. January 2012 - Sampo Turve

You might have seen the example.sites.php file on the sites directory when setting up your Drupal installation. This is your new friend when setting up a multisite installation on Drupal.

The the g' old way of doing this was to create symlinks for each of the site into the sites directory. Like this:

Multisite installation with aliases

Motivation for both Body and Mind

16. December 2011 - Emma Mäkinen

One of the corner stones of Mearra in terms of keeping the employees happy is to offer as many opportunities for stimulating motivation as reasonably possible.

In addition to the best tools for productive and efficient work, encouragement for self-development and of course the like-minded, carefully selected bunch of fellow employees, Mearra has begun to stimulate the employees on a whole another level as well: Mearra Sports Club.

Radioactivity 2: basics

5. December 2011 - Teemu Merikoski

With Radioactivity 2 nearly out of its beta form, I thought I'd write a bit about what it is and what you can do with it and most importantly walk you through on how to use it.

Radioactivity 2 allows you to track any fieldable entities; users, nodes, commerce products, etc. It can be used as a simple view counter but also as a popularity or activity meter, e.g. with it you can create a 'most viewed nodes at this moment' list. There is also limited rules which allows you to create an activity meter for basically whatever you want. 

Debugging and testing sites in Internet Explorer 7, 8 and 9 under Mac OS X and Linux.

1. December 2011 - Ilari Mäkelä

Debugging and testing sites in Internet Explorer (or Exploder as some might say) is certainly the moment of joy in every web developers life. You know the saying test early, test often so you can identify issues and bugs early. How many of us actually do testing with Internet Explorer in the early stages?

Varnish device detection and redirect to mobile site

29. November 2011 - Cristian Andrei

It's a fact: more and more people start using their smart phones and tablets for their browsing needs. This means that popular websites need to adapt their content for these new devices or face the chance of losing some of their users.

Today, I'll share how you can achieve device detection and redirect for a website that runs Varnish in 4 easy steps.

Drupal project management - Life cycle of a website

28. November 2011 - Vesa Palmu

Websites are all too often regarded as projects that are done when a site is launched. This is rarely the case. In most cases, the life of a site is just starting when it is being launched. A large part of total expenses happen only after the launch. In addition, it's important to remember that any website is just causing expenses for an organization as long as it's under development. All value creation with a site happens only after users actually have access to it.

Drupal project management - Choosing a Drupal service provider

22. November 2011 - Vesa Palmu

Companies don't do projects - people do projects. It is essential to keep this in mind when selecting a supplier. Even though a particular company has done exceptional projects in the past, the future success has ultimately to do with the competence of individuals taking part in the project. Companies can create the culture, process and also have the support in place for greatly enhancing the possibility to do successful projects but still the actual results depend on the individuals actually involved.

How to create a custom feeds tamper plugin

18. November 2011 - Mikael Kundert

It is very common that sometimes when you import content from a file (eg. CSV or XML file) which is provided by someone else, you are not pleased with the format. You might see many inconsistency values which obviously would need some improvements in order to have a clean import.

That is when Feeds Tamper module comes to save your task. It comes with multiple plugins which manipulates values before mapping them. That gives great power for site builders to have clean feeds imports with consistent values.

However, sometimes you will not find your plugin to do something you want and that is why I write you how to write your custom plugin for feeds tamper.

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