Server URL Monitoring
September 5th 2013I've long used Servers Alive for my URL monitoring. It seems to have occasional application errors when booting from startup on one of my spare staging servers that I almost never keep online anymore. So, it's time to look into some new options.
Running Cron As An Authenticated User
February 12th 2013It's clear from the Drupal 7 documentation, cron jobs don't play nice together when you need the cron job be associated with a non-anonymous publishing task. But, there is a way to solve this issue with a quick snippet of code on a per case basis.
References vs Entity Reference & Migrating
April 25th 2012Using node, term, and user references has been a pivotal part of many moderate to advanced website architectures in Drupal 7. The References module used for this is being deprecated. It is now suggested to use an Entity Reference. But, is Entity Reference ready for your project, and if so, how hard is it to migrate?
Customize Open Atrium - Modules & Feature Addons
July 27th 2011If you love Open Atrium then check out this list of modules which will help you setup new features into your workflow. Every item here is something currently absent from OpenAtrium.
Auto Disable Cache/Aggregation/Compression On A Drupal Development Environment
May 20th 2011Are you currently using Drush (or manually) importing a production database to your development and staging database on a regular basis. Then you tediously going into your performance settings and disabling the cache, aggregation, and compression manually?
Drupal 7 Nginx.conf Fix For Missing Images Styles
May 18th 2011Nginx and Image Styles generation does not work out of the box in Drupal 7. You'll need to add a few extra lines to your nginx.conf file for it to work.
Development Workflows With Different settings.php Across Environments
May 16th 2011When working with larger websites, development can be tedious when dealing with settings.php changes across each environment. There's an way to solve this and streamline your workflow.
Drupal 7.0 Preprocess Page Templates - theme_hook_suggestions
March 3rd 2011I had to do some research and testing to understand the changes from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 template suggestions. At the time of writing this a lot of documentation appears to be non-existent or somewhat inaccurate. Documenting my own testing will hopefully save you a day of time on this.
Append A URL Link In Your Post's Excerpt RSS Feed
February 10th 2011Alter your Wordpress feed (if you're using excerpts) to add a link to the end of your RSS content. The benefits extend to improving user interface (in getting to your site) and have a potential SEO impact.
How To Find Your Top 404 Pages And 301 Them With Redirection
November 15th 2010Using a custom query on Wordpress's Redirection plugin data will find and order the top 404 pages for you.
