Considering Frontier DSL
After the news hit about Time Warner Cable’s intent to charge different rates for tiers of monthly data transfer — and an enormous $1/GB fee for overages — it seems eminently sane to consider the...
View ArticleOpenID delegation and Drupal accounts
I discovered — after I’d set up OpenID delegation (using the Drupal OpenID URL module and Sam Ruby’s instructions) — that each OpenID used with a Drupal site needs to be associated with a Drupal...
View ArticleA case for Web hosts to offer search as a service
Apache Solr provides a Web service front end for the Apache Lucene indexing and search engine library. Both Solr and Lucene (upon which Solr depends) are Java-based, which has implications for shared...
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McAfee DAT update 5958 as trending topic on Twitter
The McAfee DAT update 5958 was issued on April 21, 2010, and created quite a situation. Heretofore, I will remember what transpired as “the events of April 21.” I think that someday, examining what...
View ArticleRun Drupal cron with Drush at Site5
After starting to use Drush, I wanted to switch my Drupal cron jobs over to it. I’d previously been running these jobs the standard way, loading a URL for each of my Drupal sites with curl. That curl...
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Hope someone enjoyed this crash report
As you may know, I absolutely live to submit crash and bug reports to vendors. Normally, these reports are staid affairs involving copious amounts of detail, exquisite reproduction steps, and both...
View ArticleEnable the Drupal Token Filter module to insert the current year into a...
In the course of a conversation with Jesse today, I launched into action to fix the copyright statement in my site’s footer block. It still listed the copyright dates as “1999-2009” when the year had...
View ArticleOn winning and my low user ID at Drupal.org
I stumbled into winning a copy of Beginning Drupal 7 by Todd Tomlinson from Apress and the nice hosts of the Drupal Easy podcast. The announcement on the podcast had me laughing out loud. (Luckily, I...
View ArticleParse a vendor RSS feed to get the latest available product version
There may be times when you want to obtain the number of the latest available version — not just the latest installed version — of a software package through automated means. If the vendor or project...
View ArticleTurn RSS feed items into Keynote slides with Python Appscript
I wanted to set up a kiosk system that displayed some static and some constantly-updated information. I already had a kiosk that used Apple Keynote in full-screen presentation mode to show a slideshow,...
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