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In my new position at Drupalize.Me I have the luxury of helping a lot of projects in little ways. Being able to context switch quickly helps a lot. This means I've put a lot of time into how my workstation is setup so that I can easily move from one project to another. With the new job I also decided to add OSX to the mix of computers that I use on a daily basis.

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First of all: I'm a featured speaker. I'll be hosting a session called 'Drupal 8 for Site Builders'. Come and watch to get an overview of all the wonders and power Drupal 8 has for creating a site. However, there are other reasons to attend DrupalCon Prague, and they are not Drupal related at all.

Kutná Hora is a little town, about 80 kilometers away from Prague, world known for its Sedlec ossuary which contains a lot of human bones...

Recently, I had a need to be able to backup a Drupal database but to skip a number of tables that I didn’t care about; mostly tables related to caching. Given most of these tables are prefixed with cache*, I was hoping for a way to specify tables to ignore using a wildcard character like ‘%’ or ‘*’.

Building sites using Drupal Commerce is something we often do at Marzee Labs, but when EnjoyThis approached us to build an e-commerce site for The London Distillery Company featuring a “design your own whisky cask” part, we immediately seized that opportunity to do something different. In this post, I’ll review the architecture of the project.

The new site for The London Distillery Company had to appeal to a young urban crowd. EnjoyThis took on the...

We have rolled out an experimental feature to export tours (in Inline Manual terminology Topics) that are compatible with Drupal 8 tour module. You can now use the Authoring tool and Inline Manual infrastructure to manage your tours. These exported tours you can play out of the box in Drupal 8. If you are after more advanced solution, that can be used for your clients, check out the Inline Manual module.

Adding color support to a Drupal theme allows site owners/administrators to modify the theme's color scheme directly from a settings page, rather than having to edit any CSS.

I'm currently assessing color integration options for Neptune and have found DesignKit to be a quick, easy, and flexible alternative to direct color module itegration (as used by Garland and Bartik). On the flip side, there are a couple of caveats (see below).

This tutorial will focus on...

As I've outlined in the previous post Drupal 8 core now has 3 core modules (+1 proposed, +1 hidden) to deal with language support. This tidbit will be about the simple language setup features provided by Language module, which is the base for every other language feature.

Language module provides a simple language overview screen. You can reorder existing languages, remove languages (except the site default language, which on the screenshot is Hungarian) and add new languages. It is...

In most of the cases, there are several developers working at the same project, each of the have its own manner of writing the code, but anyway at the end, the code must be simple, testable and reliable. This article describes how to reduce the visual complexity of the code with return value early in “if” statements, which can lead to a higher code quality.

Usually we write code with many “if” statements:

During update work of the site of our Drupal department (http://php.sfdev.com) we faced following task: to upload rectangular images but to show circle ones on the pages of our site.

In the case if we are going to display circle image form Image or Media field it is easy to set image style preset and use it in the field display. But Rotating banner (https://drupal.org/project/rotating_banner) does not allow to use image styles without hack module.

It is extremely worth...

The monthly security release window for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 core will take place on Wednesday, June 19.

This does not mean that a Drupal core security release will necessarily take...

My first Drupal 7 responsive theme is out - made specifically for blogs and portfolio websites. Have a look and tell me what you think. Just one thing I would like to stress: this is my first attempt to create a theme ‘product’. I’ve worked quite a lot on it but still, there may be glitches. Hope you’ll forgive me for those and I will try to help you as much as my time will allow me to. Enjoy and let me know what you think, if you have any comments, please leave them on the other page....

Now that Twitter 1.1 and Feeds are buddies, time to move to other data sources. Next up: Facebook. Using trusty Feeds and friends, I was able to ingest my own Facebook home feed. Here's how to replicate this:

For the impatient, attached is a feature that should get you set up quickly.

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