Author: Henry Winkler

Converting Joomla to Drupal

Add CommentShareSource Articles12Thursday, June 12, 2008By adminPlanning to make the switch from Joomla to Drupal? Now may be the time! I was just reading over the New Modules feed when I spotted something called Joomla to Drupal. According to the feature list, it can import Joomla users, content, sections, and categories into Drupal. Obviously, this

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A Visual Analysis of Drupal Modules

Add CommentShareSource Articles13Friday, June 13, 2008By adminInspired by Laura’s recent post, I decided it would be fun to run some of the data from DrupalModules.com through Wordle. So, I wrote a script to parse the entire collection of released Drupal modules. Over 2000 descriptions, written by hundreds of different module developers, were analyzed. This image

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Avoiding the Template.php of Doom (or, Overriding Theme Functions in Modules)

Add CommentShareSource Articles16Monday, June 16, 2008By adminDrupal’s theming system offers developers and designers a flexible way to override default HTML output when specific portions of the page are rendered. Everything from the name of the currently logged in user to the HTML markup of the entire page can be customized by a plugin “theme”. Unfortunately,

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Eureka! Science News just launched!

Add CommentSourceNewsBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati22Thursday, May 22, 2008By admindiggEureka! Science NewsEureka! Science News just launched – it is a site dedicated to provide the very latest science news, but with a special twist – it is entirely automated! There is no human editor behind it – it finds

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SparkleShelf – Beauty & Style Community

Add Comment Source News Bookmark/Search this post with: Delicious Delicious Digg Digg StumbleUpon StumbleUpon Facebook Facebook Google Google Yahoo Yahoo Technorati Technorati 27 Tuesday, May 27, 2008 By admin SparkleShelf We have just launched the Beta release of Sparkle*Shelf (http://sparkleshelf.com), a site that provides beauty enthusiasts with the latest information and tutorials on fashion, hair

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Is that site running Drupal?

These range from super easy stuff like checking for CHANGELOG.txt to checking the source for a reference to “drupal.css” (Drupal 4.7) to checking for common paths like taxonomy/term/1, and /user, (which might be aliased to something else with something like Pathauto/Path Redirect module), and so on. However, since Drupal 4.6, there’s a super geeky trick

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Drupal 6 AHAH forms: The easy way

Comments (2)SourceTutorialsBookmark/Search this post with:Delicious DeliciousDigg DiggStumbleUpon StumbleUponFacebook FacebookGoogle GoogleYahoo YahooTechnorati Technorati28Friday, March 28, 2008By adminToday, I was working with drupal 6’s AHAH form elements. Initially, I was delighted at how well they worked. That delight turned to confusion once I realized that the form elements I had put in the menu callback of the

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Lullabot Announces the Launch of FastCompany.com Website on Drupal

Add CommentShareSource Articles12Tuesday, February 12, 2008By adminFebruary 12, 2008 — Built by teams from Lullabot, Achieve Internet, Treehouse Interactive, Advomatic, and Mansueto Digital, the new FastCompany.com web site combines rich editorial content with advanced networking tools for industry watchers and professionals. The upgraded site integrates the websites’ editorial features with Company of Friends, Fast Company’s

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