by Aaron Froehlich
*Feel free to browse the code from this tutorial in my sandbox repository at Drupal.org.
In Part 1 of this tutorial, we created a custom Bean type that provides reusable blocks of tweets from a specified twitter user. In Part...
by Aaron Froehlich
*Feel free to browse the code from this tutorial in my sandbox repository at Drupal.org.
This tutorial is a follow-up to a recent article on Minimalist Drupal Development, where I made the case for judicious module selection...
by Aaron Froehlich
Drupal has emerged in recent years as an extremely flexible and powerful resource for creating web applications. It's done that by creating an infrastructure that simplifies the process of building new functionality and an...
Because I switch between ColdFusion and Ruby on a weekly basis, when I work on ColdFusion I sometimes miss some of the features that I have in Ruby. Like having a hash return a nil when a key doesn't exist, rather than getting an error when a key...
Don't just disable SSL, install the intermediate certificates from the Certificate Authority (CA).
by Aaron Froehlich
After Parallels died on me earlier this week, I went looking for a quick and easy way to install a new set of Windows virtual machines on my Mac. Ievms via xdissent makes it stupid simple to get a testing environment up...
by Jared Beck
2013-02-04
This Saturday, 2013-02-02, the first update to RMagick in nearly three years was released: 2.13.2
One of the most useful changes is support for ImageMagick 6.8 (pull request), the current version from brew. If you're...
by Alexandra Atzl
Being relatively new to Drupal, I was overwhelmed recently by the task of implementing a base theme and three sub-themes for a customized system of Drupal sites we were developing at Singlebrook. I needed a clear, simple way to...
by Aaron Froehlich
Over the past few months we've been using Behat and Mink for acceptance testing on a large Drupal distribution we're building (further background reading here). Overall, the transition from our comfy rails testing tools like...
by Jeffrey Konowitch
Last month, several Singlebrook developers participated in Ithaca’s Global Day of Code Retreat. The event had a very simple structure; the day was broken into several 45 minute pair-programming sessions - switching partners...