- 2012-08-19: Working on the new Drupal 8 Entity system at Drupalcon Munich
- 2012-06-15: Working on the new Drupal 8 Entity system at DrupalDevDays Barcelona
- 2012-03-23: Working on the future Drupal Document Oriented Storage at DrupalCon Denver. D8 or later ? Bets are on.
- 2011-09-01: Building an Unfuddle to Drupal Casetracker import module using Migrate
- 2011-08-28: Back from DrupalCon London and its WSCCI code sprint. Wow.
- 2009-11-29: mongodb_watchdog module created by dereine, ported to D7 by me in about half an hour, and migrated in a larger MongoDB project by damz before the hour ended. Wow...
DRUPAL-4-6
Downloading modules when drupal.org is offline
Submitted by fgm on Mon, 2007-07-30 12:36Drupal.org being unavailable quite frequently these days, some may find it hard to download the module of their choice.
Luckily, the downloads are static files served as public downloads outside Drupal itself: all it takes is knowing the proper URL, and they are all gathered on ftp://ftp.drupal.org/pub/drupal/files/projects, just waiting for your favorite FTP browser.
New release system for OSInet contributions
Submitted by fgm on Sun, 2007-05-20 19:26The "heavy" modules OSInet contributes to Drupal (G2, Helpdesk, Zeitgeist) have now been placed under the new release system.
Branches and releases have been created where applicable:
Updating drupal without file access
Submitted by fgm on Sat, 2007-01-13 23:40A few days ago, it was brought to my attention that something had been broken on the PHP-GTK community site during the 5.0 RC2 upgrade. The problem was easily identified as being codefilter.module having been removed during the upgrade and not reinstalled. Of course, not being at my office, I did not have access to the FTP passwords, but just to my admin account, and I did not want to leave the community members in the cold, so I used this small trick.
Drupal coder: configuring Zend Studio PHPDocumentor extension for Drupal
Submitted by fgm on Fri, 2006-03-17 21:10Zend Studio is a convenient environment to code in PHP, which is why many Drupal developers are using it. But some settings are necessary to ease its use, due to the specific extensions Drupal uses.
Drupal admin: deleting many nodes
Submitted by fgm on Sat, 2005-12-24 16:17Ofttimes, when developing a site, you can be led to create or import a large number of custom nodes, for instance flexinodes, only to have to delete them later on. Doing it by hand in admin/content is inconvenient when the number of nodes is large, and for custom nodes like flexinodes, the exact entries to delete in the various Drupal tables may not be obvious. Time for a workaround.
Drupal coder: writing a Drupal XML-RPC service
Submitted by fgm on Sat, 2005-12-17 17:05XML-RPC is a very simple RPC service, but it may not be obvious how to provide it from Drupal. Here's how.
Drupal tips: showing recent searches
Submitted by fgm on Tue, 2005-11-29 10:06Some sites include a list of terms recently searched for. I've created a patch for Drupal adding this functionality to the current 4.6.x search module.
Grokking Drupal: the taxonomy system
Submitted by fgm on Sun, 2005-11-27 17:21Drupal coder: hook_load and data isolation
Submitted by fgm on Mon, 2005-10-10 21:40You're peacefully coding a hook_load implementation in your latest drupal module, when your admin account suddenly gets "Access denied" errors looking at nodes. Yikes...
Drupal admin: beware the double slash
Submitted by fgm on Wed, 2005-09-21 00:20Sometimes, a double slash appears in your Drupal URLs. This is an error both common and simple to fix. Here's how.






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