http://pajamadesign.com Jacob Singh Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:58:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was writing an install profile for a out-of-the-box workflow install profile to be used by media organizations today, when I ran into the rote task of adding roles and permissions. (for reference, see my last article on workflow configuration in drupal) So being the programmer who will write something in a ... http://pajamadesign.com/2008/07/03/helpers_user-the-user-api-that-never-was/ Since I started working with Apache Solr in Drupal, I've realized how much client money has been wasted making ill advised advanced searches. We've all gotten the requests for "advanced" searches and it makes any IA-god fearing developer cringe. For the 1% of users who use them, you ... http://pajamadesign.com/2008/07/01/solving-bad-ia-using-enterprise-search-reverse-advanced-search/ I've just released a new module which I hope will fill a general need in the Drupal community. This module allows you to show nodes in a view which have the same taxonomy as a node which you pass in as an argument. BUT it goes a step beyond this. ... http://pajamadesign.com/2008/06/30/similar-nodes-module-released/ Long time no blog... I had a bit of a realization (or rather a resurgence of a recurring realization) that I enjoy writing. It happened this weekend as I was "getting away from it all". I've been interested in enterprise search for small and medium enterprises for ... http://pajamadesign.com/2008/06/30/apache-solr-based-cms-vocabulary/ Hey folks, I feel compelled to announce this. Please Please Please read this post if you have done any multilingual drupal development. Do not use t() outside of a hook or before locale gets to build its cache I was asked to do some profiling on a colleague's site, and I found ... http://pajamadesign.com/2008/06/29/the-t-that-took-down-a-webserver/ I've been playing around with Media Mover this week for Arthur with the goal of improving the general use cases for the community and giving some code review. For those who don't know, here is an excerpt from the project page of media mover: Media Mover is a set of modules which ... http://pajamadesign.com/2008/06/28/media-mover-workflow-needs/ While an appendicitis is a painful, uncomfortable and ultimately debilitating condition - one which I have suffered with for over a year, its remedy (Laproscopic surgery, way too much money to an evil hospital, a shitton of painkillers and a week of bedrest) is fairly tame as far as surgical ... http://pajamadesign.com/2008/06/27/good-bye-appendix-hello-google-app-engine/ I'm doing a training for Srijan this week with their developers on good version control and change management practices, and while googling around I ran into this: http://www.polarion.org/index.php?page=overview&project=subtrain It is a fantastic set of training materials generously provided under CC 2.5 by Polarion.org. it features ppts for admins as well as users, evaluation ... http://pajamadesign.com/2008/06/02/awesome-svn-training-materials-under-cc/ Getting Started Who are we and what are we doing here? Backgrounds and goals (personal and technical). Get to know everyone's development background and professional history Where do we come from as programmers? How does that influence our current approach and approach to ... http://pajamadesign.com/2008/05/20/drupal-curriculum/ An appendicitis is a painful, uncomfortable and ultimately debilitating condition one which I have suffered with for over a year. However, its remedy (Laproscopic surgery) is fairly tame as far as surgical procedures go - way too much money to an evil hospital, a shitton of painkillers and a week ... http://pajamadesign.com/2008/05/11/6-premises-for-killer-apps-on-the-google-app-engine-or-good-bye-appendix-hello-google-apps/