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The Drupal Block system from drop.org to Drupal 8: video from DrupalCon Prague

Frederic Marand — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 07:31:04 +0000

The Drupal Block system from drop.org to Drupal 8: video from DrupalCon Prague

Submitted by Frederic Marand on Fri, 2013-09-27 09:31

So DrupalCon Prague is almost over, and I can now share with you the video of my session about the history of the Drupal block system, from drop.org to Drupal 8, just as recorded on wednesday.

The session page is available on https://prague2013.drupal.org/session/blocks-drop.org-drupal-8-and-beyo… where you can also rate it. Please to it over there, or add your comments here: it is very useful for me to see what needs to be adjusted for upcoming presentations. Based on the overall feedback, it seems that:

How to restore Unfuddle dumps: migrating to Drupal CaseTracker

Frederic Marand — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:02:38 +0000

How to restore Unfuddle dumps: migrating to Drupal CaseTracker Frederic Marand Sat, 2011-09-03 17:02

Unfuddle is a very convenient and fairly cheap SaaS hosted Redmine (with extensions) and SVN/Git, which I use regularly on customer projects. Their service includes reassuring "Backup" options, going as far as to include the ability to backup to your own Amazon S3 bins in addition to their local backups.

Recently, however, I had to go back to an archived project for which I had dutifully taken a dump before closing it on Unfuddle, and looked for a way to restore it to my Unfuddle account. To no avail. Unfuddle support then kindly confirmed that the service did include a backup feature, but no restore:

Backups of projects within Unfuddle are for personal use only and cannot be restored into accounts via the interface. This however may be possible with some custom scripting on your part and with the use of our API (http://unfuddle.com/docs/api).

What then ?

What to do when you can no longer login to your Drupal site

Frederic Marand — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 07:51:00 +0000

What to do when you can no longer login to your Drupal site Frederic Marand Thu, 2011-08-04 09:51

So the scenario is this: you notice that you are no longer able to login on your Drupal site:

the {users} table entry for your account looks just fine
the login and access timestamps on your account are just a few seconds old, matching your latest attempt to login
you reset your password in the DB, just in case, and it still does not work
the telltale is that Drupal will not even tell you your login failed: it actually works, as the {users} table shows, but yet you are not logged in

Can you guess what can have been going wrong and fix it ?

Drupal tip of the day: using "format" in Drupal aliases

Frederic Marand — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 21:44:22 +0000

Drupal tip of the day: using "format" in Drupal aliases

Submitted by Frederic Marand on Sat, 2010-03-27 22:44

I noticed today that one of my sites returned 403 Access denied on various pages with URLs like format/<foo>, although it was an alias for a taxonomy/term/<tid> taxonomy path which was actually available when not aliased. What could be going on ?

Drupal as one of the key Internet Technologies

Frederic Marand — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:31:08 +0000

Drupal as one of the key Internet Technologies Frederic Marand Tue, 2010-02-23 15:31

Received this Harris Interactive poll today, on behalf of Tarsus, the french company organizing the Solutions Linux expo.

One of the choices was a list of the top 30 Internet Technologies. And guess what ? For once, Drupal was on the list: first time I see it mentioned in this type of business context. Interesting.

Debug vanilla

Frederic Marand — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:14:12 +0000

Debug vanilla Frederic Marand Fri, 2009-12-11 12:14

Most of the time, when working on some piece of code, I'll resort to the configured debugger in my current Zend Studio configuration. And you probably do too :-)

However, I often have to access debug-type information on live sites where installing a debugger is out of the question, and I find myself often resorting to parameter dumps like the following:
<?php
// lazy version for simple cases
function foo_bar($x, $y, $z) {
dsm(func_get_args());
// [...]

// less lazy version for more hairy cases
function foo_baz($x, $y, $z) {
dsm(array('in foo_baz, x' => $x, 'y' => $y, 'z' => $z));
// ...
?>

You've probably being using it too and, of course, after the first few dozen times, it becomes a bit used. So here's a tiny snippet that makes such dumps simpler to type and use :

Easy mass deletions

Frederic Marand — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:21:11 +0000

Easy mass deletions Frederic Marand Mon, 2009-11-16 14:21

Sometimes, you want to delete a whole bunch of users, terms, or nodes, say to cleanup a site while developing and still keep its configuration, so reinstalling is not really an option, and the normal content- or user-administration pages get in your way because they only show a limited number of entries, meaning you have to delete page after page of entries.

Module Extendr for Flickr

Frederic Marand — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:23:34 +0000

Module Extendr for Flickr

Submitted by Frederic Marand on Mon, 2009-09-14 17:23

In case you've found Jeff Miccolis' post about the Extendr module for Flickr great, but have been bothered by the fact that the link on the blog was broken and that comments on that article were closed, the good news is that he made his code available on drupal.org too, at:

http://devseed.svn.cvsdude.com/sandbox/drupal-6/extendr/

Views in Paris

Frederic Marand — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:08:10 +0000

Views in Paris

Submitted by Frederic Marand on Sat, 2009-08-29 17:08

In case you've been living under a rock, DrupalCon Paris is happening next week, and features, not one, but two Views Sessions, in addition to merlinofchaos' own CTools sessions on Panels 3 and CTools. One of them being, of course, by yours truly :-)

Gadgets module now available for Drupal 6

Frederic Marand — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:13:11 +0000

Gadgets module now available for Drupal 6

Submitted by Frederic Marand on Sun, 2009-05-24 17:13

2011-08-06: UPDATE: now available from my drupal.org sandbox