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Front page access denied errors

I was trying to look at my very own site, which you see here, before I did the upgrade to Drupal 5.6. I got “access denied” errors on the home page! After a little bit of trial and error, where I...

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Our long electronic domain nightmare has ended

Yes, I forgot to renew my domain. Yes, that became a real pain very quickly when I realized what the repercussions were. For future generations, I suggest not having to deal with this when: you want to...

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Seeking Drupal 6 modules

In order to figure out if I can upgrade to Drupal 6, I have to review the compatibility of the following modules I use under Drupal 5: Bad-Behavior account_reminder acl actions akismet amazon_filter atom...

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Google Analytics plunge due to module change?

It looks like some recent change to the Google Analytics module for Drupal 5 broke my link to the Analytics service. Well, I’m being overbroad there. It really was working, but apparently only tracking...

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Drag and drop tabs in Safari

Frankly, I had utterly ignored drag and drop tabs in Safari. This feature didn’t work in older versions of the app and only appeared in Safari 3, so I hadn’t yet adjusted to it. The recent article on...

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When I ruled the world?

Does anyone else think that Apple has some ulterior motive for promoting Viva la Vida, the track on the new iTunes ad featuring Coldplay? That maybe its lyrics are indicative of something going on at...

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Hunting Snow Leopard

I’ve been thinking for a few months that Mac OS X 10.6 (or the like) would be introduced to developers at WWDC 2008. I’ve said as much to those unfortunate enough to be within earshot. I haven’t...

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Is that site running Drupal, curl edition

The Lullabot Web site has a clever way to help answer the question of “Is that site running Drupal?” Angie Byron mentions that the HTTP “Expires” header returned by Drupal corresponds to a specific...

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Mac OS X Service to shorten a URL with Bit.ly

Since the Bit.ly URL-shortening service is all the rage lately, and I hadn’t seen anyone create a Mac OS X Service for it yet, I decided to try my hand at it. Here’s the result. The core is a...

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Collecting important URLs for trips in Safari

I recently took a trip to Seattle, and reminded myself of a useful practice I’d developed a while ago. When I’m traveling, I collect import URLs for that trip in my browser — URLs for my organization’s...

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Drupal 5.10 and MarsEdit

Now that I’ve upgraded to Drupal 5.10, I’ve discovered I can no longer post from MarsEdit. I get this error upon submitting a post via XML-RPC, via Drupal’s core Blog API module: You either tried to...

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Microsoft Entourage error -18576 as it happens

I have had a problem that has repeated since I first began using Entourage as an Exchange client since at least version 11.0. I’ve never been able to solve it, but let me at least explain it here,...

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Drupal Administration Menu module streamlines admin tasks

I just installed the Drupal Administration Menu contributed module, and I really like it. When you are logged in and have administrative privileges, it provides a small menu bar with drop-down menus...

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Update your Fastmail.fm address book from Apple Address Book

I am continually coming across useful features in my Fastmail.fm account that I have previously overlooked. For example, I now know that I can import contacts into the account’s address book. As with...

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Untar archive contents directly into a target folder

In my Mercurial-based workflow for updating Drupal sites, there is a sequence of commands I need whenever a new version of Drupal comes out. I have a hard time remembering the options for “tar” in this...

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List changed files in a Mercurial repository with a custom output style

While trying to troubleshoot what I’d done to mess up the Mercurial repositories managing my Drupal installations last weekend, I really would have liked a way to see what files had changes in specific...

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Getting the settings right for the Drupal GeSHi Filter module

I wanted to find a way to do syntax highlighting of code snippets on my Drupal blog. I came across the GeSHi Filter module, which lets Drupal sites take advantage of the apparently well-regarded GeSHi...

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Check a new version of Acquia Drupal into a Mercurial repository

Here is a sequence of commands and output that show how I keep the Acquia Drupal open source content management system up to date with Mercurial, the open source distributed version control system. In...

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The dummy domain and the domain pointer at Site5

I’ve been struggling with my Site5 Web hosting account for two years. In many respects, it has been great — good service at a price I was willing to pay. However, my biggest single aggravation has been...

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Linked on installers

John C. Welch’s article, On Installers, is linked from Daring Fireball today. He links to me — thank you very much John, for that and for the kind words about my signal-to-noise ratio (whatever my...

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