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Diaries of a module maintainer, part 1 - Gardening the issue queue 25 Aug 2013 | 01:08 pm
I've been maintaining a growing amount of modules over the years. I am starting to document my observations, habits and challenges, in the hope they'd be useful to other Drupal coders. Psychology of ...
Ingesting the Facebook stream using Feeds and OAuth 2.0 (updated for Drupal 7) 17 Jun 2013 | 09:07 am
Now that Twitter 1.1 and Feeds are buddies, time to move to other data sources. Next up: Facebook. Using trusty Feeds and friends, I was able to ingest my own Facebook home feed. Here's how to replica...
Consuming the new Twitter 1.1 API with Feeds and friends 14 Jun 2013 | 12:04 am
The new Twitter 1.1 API kicked in recently, which meant a new cycle of maintenance for anyone consuming their data programmatically. My own Feeds + Views demo site streams #drupal, using Feeds and com...
Arabic music notation in the browser 13 Jun 2013 | 01:49 am
I created a bare-bones content filter to add musical notation to Drupal content, using the VexFlow / VexTab music engraving library. Here's a little sample, also showing my fork of the original librar...
A view of nodes and their translations, part 2: optimizing the Views-generated query 3 Jun 2013 | 12:34 am
Last week, I described a technique to query and display nodes in all available translations. This worked well enough, but a performance-minded reader pointed out that the query generated by Views (tha...
A view of nodes and their translations 25 May 2013 | 10:46 am
Here's a little puzzle: display a table of nodes, each row containing the same content in all available translations. How would you do it? Stumped, I asked that question on Stack Overflow a few years...
A regular expression Views filter handler 6 May 2013 | 01:17 pm
I've needed to build a regular expression filter for a view I'm working on, so I'm sharing the code here because it might be helpful to other people as well. My specific case is that I am building a B...
Is there a module for that? 17 Apr 2013 | 09:46 am
Jeff Geerling graciously transferred his "Is there a module for that?" tongue-in-cheek domain name to me. Thanks Jeff! So, is there a module for that? Probably. But if not, I'm sure you can build one...
Question to my readers: Drupal queue task sequencing 8 Apr 2013 | 12:03 pm
I asked this question on StackExchange: Is there a way to use Drupal Queue API to sequence the execution of tasks, like in a pipeline? My use case is pretty simple: I have a number of tasks executin...
Features and i18n configuration management, part 2: Menu item madness 19 Mar 2013 | 11:13 pm
Last week, I started writing about my tribulations managing the configuration of a multisite, multilingual application using Features, i18n, and friends. I listed the site components that needed to be...
