Gerrit Brands

By far the best tutorial out there; quick and to the point.
http://toroid.org/ams/git-website-howto

I wanted to write a quick script that would send an email reminding me of how much time was left until a particular event. This is what I came up with!

I recently upgraded my hosting package with 1and1 and now able to use SSH to connect to my webserver! There were a few different places out there that I had to piece together in order to setup my SSH keys with the 1and1 server so I decided I would consolidate my findings here.

Recently, someone was asking me how to modify the items of a particular menu within a Drupal powered site. In particular, they wanted to modify all but the last menu item. This is where the Drupal API comes to the rescue with its theme_menu_link function. This function allows you to manipulate your menu items as you see fit. Want to add a unique class to a particular menu item? Need to add a string to only certain menu items? Want to replace the menu completely?

Here are some pictures of the house...

Had to jump on the planking bandwagon:
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According to a W3 Techs survey, Drupal is the front-runner when it comes to content management systems.

Drupal & Git (part 1)

Drupal & Git (part 2)

Sometimes you need to make a CCK field required only when certain conditions are met (e.g., a particular user or role). In these cases, simply marking a field 'Required' in the field's configuration page is just not enough. Enter the #after_build FAPI attribute.

In a recent project I used Node Gallery and Node Gallery Access to create password protected image galleries that did not require a user to register an account at the site. These two modules did exactly that. However, when viewing the files directly (e.g, yoursite.com/path/to/file.png) there were no access restrictions in place. So if anyone found out the file name they could download the restricted image.