The #drupal consultant
Heine —Thu, 2009/08/06 - 10:22
A gem on the Drupal consulting mailinglist (emphasis added):
[...] when she's come up with the particular (and often peculiar) requirements, I haven't charged for the time I spend [...] chatting about it on #drupal
Well, we didn't charge you for the chat either, did we?
Menu access, a new pitfall when going back to Drupal 5
Heine —Mon, 2009/05/25 - 13:56
If you spend a lot of time exclusively in one Drupal version, you develop muscle memory for its API. This can be pretty dangerous as I caught myself writing the following menu item while backporting a Drupal 6 module.
Drupal 6: $base_path doesn't always point to the frontpage
Heine —Sun, 2009/05/17 - 20:13
Dear themers,
.... in page.tpl.php breaks Home functionality on many multilingual sites.
A new form element in Drupal core
Heine —Wed, 2009/01/28 - 09:48
This post was written for a development version of Drupal between 6 and 7. The queries and pager need conversion to DBTNG.
With Commit #167487, a new form element has been added to Drupal core (7.x) to provide an alternative means of selecting items. Now, next to 'select' (combobox, list), checkboxes and radios, core carries the 'tableselect' element. This element allows developers to easily create tables with selectable rows. Ideal for those situations where you have to provide a lot of data on the items to the user.
The backstabbing March-Hare
Heine —Thu, 2009/01/22 - 01:19
If you use the CVSNT free/open source edition to commit to Drupal.org, drop to the command line and check your version with:
CVSNT version 2.5.04 or later inserts advertising in every commit message. Please, either buy a license for the CVSNT Suite, download an older version, or switch to another client.
Drupal HEAD and HTTP 500 errors on IIS 7
Heine —Fri, 2009/01/09 - 12:41
If you use PHP via FastCGI on IIS 7 and installing Drupal HEAD (7.x-dev) results in an HTTP 500 error, you may need to increase a number of timeout settings. The PHP.ini ones are fairly straightforward, but setting the activityTimeout for the FastCGI module is not intuitive.
Open a Command prompt with Administrative rights and enter:
