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LevelTen Interactive: DrupalCamp PHX Session: Drupal as an Inbound Marketing Platform
A few weeks ago, Brent Bice attended DrupalCamp PHX to host a session on Drupal as an Inbound Marketing Platform. The video of the PowerPoint presentation of the session, along with audio were made available for everyone to visit and listen to this session.... Read more
Liran Tal's Enginx: The Drupal Rap song – Everyday I'm Drupalin'
This YouTube video doesn't need any further explanation beside it's title: The Drupal Rap song – Everyday I'm Drupalin'
Everyday I'm drupalin
Where them forms you gettin fapi with I'm the fapi boss/ hookin into edit form and webforms is my specialty sauce/ I'll hook form alter by form id's or entities/ put a list on Ajax/ just to keep it callin back/
I got them distrobutions, I'm like acqia/
Check my public repos, I didn't copy nuttin/ I know dries n webchick, I kno Ryan szrama/ all the commerce guys we hipchat when they got some drama/
Might not be pretty code but it gets me paid/ I'm using rules like php loopin through arrays/ I put it all in features, so the code is stable/ it might take longer, but next time I just click enable/ These dudes clearin caches, on every hook init/ queries by thousands, page loads by the minutes
No matter the language we compress it hard/ drugs cc all, we just drugs cc all/
Where's all of the changes, you never saw/ so drush cc all, we just drugs cc all/ I lean heavy on smacss, compass compilin my sass/ you just installed flexslider now you teachin a class/
I seen your content types, I don't need to kno you/ to know that we ain't even in the same nodequeue/
I'm on drupal answers, check my reputation/ I'm on my tablet earnin karma while I'm on vacation/ ya girl like a module, she stay hookin n/ you couldn't code an info file, without lookin in/
Mo scrums, equals better sprints, break the huddle, n the work begins
Thanks to New Valley Media for helping with the video http://www.newvalleymedia.com/
Thanks to Broadstreet Consullting http://www.broadstreetconsulting.net
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Drupal Association News: Drupal Newsletter: Jobs, Events, News, and Conversation
A long, long time ago—7 years, if you remember—the Drupal Newsletter faded away. On March 26th, the Drupal Association rebooted it. The community does so much that we want to share.
We partnered with TheWeeklyDrop to bring blog posts, articles, podcasts, and more to your inbox. Now, once a week, we're taking all the effort out of keeping up with the best in Drupal news and events.
The fourth issue hit more than 32,000 inboxes on April 9. Inside it, subscribers from all around the world found Drupal 7.36 and Webform 7.x-3.24 releases, an introduction to D8Upgrade.org (a service offering advice for when you should upgrade to Drupal 8), and more.
To get the newsletter, subscribe via your Drupal.org profile.The (Renewed) Drupal Newsletter
The Drupal Newsletter will be an opt-in-only thing. Once you've subscribed, you'll get the newsletter in your inbox once a week, every Thursday, at about 06:30 PT / 13:30 GMT.
What kind of content will you get?
- Drupal 8 progress updates
- Jobs, so you can find work (or people who get work done)
- Tutorials, guides, and podcasts
- Events throughout the community
- Projects and releases
- News and conversation
It's all brought to you by TheWeeklyDrop and us, the Drupal Association. It's content hand-picked by humans, not bots or aggregators. You'll get an uncluttered, distraction-free snapshot of the latest from the Drupal community. (Though we could be swayed by community vote to add gratuitous pictures of cats.)It's Like the Amazon Dash Button
Ok, no, it's not. That's not true. Unless you want it to be, in which case it sort of is.
Subscribe and never run out of the latest news, announcements, and innovations from the Drupal community. We made an animated gif to show you how.
- Log in to your Drupal.org profile <www.drupal.org/user>.
- Choose Edit.
- Scroll to the bottom, to the Subscribe to section.
- Check the box next to Drupal Weekly Newsletter.
- Hit the Save button.
The Drupal Newsletter is the easiest way to keep up with the Drupal community. Don't already have a Drupal.org account? Create your profile today.
Oh, and two more things:
- Please add firstname.lastname@example.com to your address book as an approved sender, so the newsletter doesn't get lost in a pesky spam folder.
- Tell us what you think. Comment on this post, or send feedback to email@example.com. We'd love to hear from you.
Drupal @ Penn State: The year, is 2020.
The year is 2020.
Drupal core announcements: Drupal core security release window on Wednesday, April 15
The monthly security release window for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 core will take place on Wednesday, April 15.
This does not mean that a Drupal core security release will necessarily take place on that date for either the Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 branches, only that you should prepare to look out for one (and be ready to update your Drupal sites in the event that the Drupal security team decides to make a release).
There will be no bug fix/feature release on this date; the next window for a Drupal core bug fix/feature release is Wednesday, May 6.
For more information on Drupal core release windows, see the documentation on release timing and security releases, and the discussion that led to this policy being implemented.
Darryl Norris's Blog: How To Replace The Title Field To a Term Of Reference (Taxonomies)?
How can you replace the title field to a term of reference (taxonomies)? This is very tricky because the title field is been hardcore written on a content type (in Drupal 7) and by default it cannot be easily replace. In this article I would explain you how I was able to use a term of reference as my title. But first why use a term of reference instead of a title?
These are the reasons why I need it to use term reference instead of title field:
- Facets - I'm building a system with Search Api + Views + Facets. And I wanted to use the title field on one of the Facets. If you used the title field facets would recognize it as Full Text and it would display it very weird with lower cases and separate words.
- Standardize – I was building a system where the title is ...Read more
Chuva Inc.: Advanced Metadata wrappers
If you're not read this article to get to know metadata wrappers. Tip 1: with list fields, quickly display what you really want to display
Now, to the juicy stuff.
Suppose you have a list field, named "field_shipping_type", with two options:exp|Express shipping regular|Regular shipping
If you use:<?php print $node->field_shipping_type->value(); ?>
It will print the word "exp". But I want to display the human-readable value. How to do that? Quick!<?php print $node->field_shipping_type->label(); ?> Tip 2: with any kind of field, display its label
Suppose I'm again, with a bunch of fields, trying to display them in a page. I need the field's label to show it. With the magical function ->info() of the wrappers, I can do just that:<?php print $node->field_shipping_type->info()['label']; ?>
Neat, uh? There are a few more things hidden in this ->info(), actually all the information concerning the field. You may find it useful someday.
Image credits: https://www.flickr.com/photos/danielygo/11377205686Subtitle: Two tips for advanced Entity Metadata Wrapper usage
Deeson: Drupal: Setting a higher value for a multi-value field
When setting up a multi-valued field in Drupal you have the option of either having unlimited values of a fixed nunber of values. For the fixed number, you only get the option of having between 1 and 10 values.
But what if you need to have a fixed value of items higher than 10?
Well there's a hook for that.
Using the hook 'hook_form_FORM_ID_alter' you can override this value for specify a higher range of values./** * Implements hook_form_FORM_ID_alter(). */ function MYMODULE_form_field_ui_field_edit_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) { $form['field']['cardinality']['#options'] = array(FIELD_CARDINALITY_UNLIMITED => t('Unlimited')) + drupal_map_assoc(range(1, 20)); }
Now you can select a value between 1 & 20 for any multi-valued fields on your site.
Don't Panic: A blog about Drupal: Another 5 Drupal resources you might have missed
When classic Drupal-sites like GotDrupal, YadaDrop, NodeOne and DrupalDude aren't updating their Drupal resource sites and/or pages anymore, there are always new sites around the corner to help you in your Drupal quest. I've listed 5 of them earlier, and here's five more...ModuleNotes
If you find the information for the different modules on drupal.org too long and hard to get a grip on, ModuleNotes might ease your pain. Written by users for users, in plain English - "this is what this module do, and it's awesome!".
Visit http://modulenotes.com/
Do you have a bunch of Drupal sites out there? Tired of getting email messages whenever there's an update available? A rather new, and free, way of keeping track is Drupalstatus.org. Through a module you connect your site to Drupalstatus and get an overview, and a weekly summary of what modules you should update, security information and such. Came along when Droptor was on the slope, and became the savior for all of us who looked for an alternative. (See related post here.)
Visit https://www.drupalstatus.org/
Slightly older and not so updated anymore, but it still holds a lot of information and tips and tricks. Hundreds of knowledge snippets, sorted into different categories makes this a good place to collect good information about Drupal - at least for a couple of years.
Visit http://www.drupaldump.com/
If you're an avid Drupal developer or just building one site, one time there's a lot to gain of using Drush. Drush is a bunch of terminal commands that speeds up development and/or theming Drupal. It's like an AddOn-pack for your favourite boardgame. With Drush, your terminal usage will increase but you will also spare a lot development time. Just clearing cache is a dream in Drush, and with that you can skip opening up the Performance page and clicking the button to clear your cache. Anyway, DrushCommands.com offers a comprehensive list of all different versions of Drush available to us as users and which commands that works in which version. Great to have around if you want to start using - or improve your usage of - Drush.
Visit http://www.drushcommands.com/
"I've never heard of this Drupal, I don't like, I don't think anything is built with that Durpel thingamabob..." Ever heard something like that from a client, a friend (ex-friend!) or other. Well, if you want to stick it to them, and show them that there are many beautiful, clever and useful sites out there, running on Drupal - DrupalShowcase is a great way to start. Thousands of Drupal-sites are listed here - and you can easily add your own!
Visit http://www.drupalshowcase.com/
Chris Hall on Drupal 8: Responsive Breakpoints in D8, the breakdown
Web Wash: How to Use WordPress Style Shortcodes in Drupal 7
If you've ever had to migrate a client from WordPress to Drupal, one of the first things they'll ask for is how to add shortcodes in Drupal.
Shortcodes in WordPress are macros that you can drop into content and have it render an object. For example, if you want to embed a gallery in WordPress you simply add [gallery id="123" size="medium"] into the content and when a post is displayed a gallery is rendered.
Implementing similar functionality in Drupal is very easy thanks to the Shortcode module. The module is not an exact copy of the Shortcode API but implements very similar functionality. If your clients are use to shortcodes in WordPress then they'll feel right at home using them in Drupal.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to configure and use the Shortcode module in Drupal.
Now, you may be thinking to yourself, can't Token do this? The short answer is yes. You can implement similar functionality using Token Filter. The module implements a custom filter which can be added to text formats. If you add [site:name] into the body, it'll render the site name.
YesCT: Identifying Mentors at Sprints (example: creative t-shirts at DrupalCon Latin America)
DrupalCon Latin America took place in Bogotá, Columbia this past February. 270 people attended the conference. There was a training day, two days of sessions and the last day was the big sprint day. It is tradition at Drupal events (and many other Open Source events) for people to gather together and work to improve the software we use. We had lots of people from the conference attend the big sprint day, 101 people, 37% of conference attendees. It was the highest percentage wise ever at a DrupalCon.As an event attendee: should you attend a sprint?
Yes. But.. Sometimes participating at Sprints can be intimidating especially if you have never been to one. Where do you start? How do you participate? Who can you ask for help? Sprint mentors! And your next question might be, "Great… where can I find one of those?"As an event organizer: What can you do to help attendees have a good sprint experience?
Having a way for attendees to identify people there to assist them, improves the experience for everyone.Identifying Sprint Mentors
One way to identify mentors is with sticker name tags. (Note for future sprints: Name tags that hang from lanyards often end up below the table edge, and then other people around the table cannot see the name tag.)
Another way is with bright colored mentor shirts. However, at DrupalCon Latin America, we unfortunately did not have pre-printed special color mentor shirts.Making Mentor T-shirts that Standout T-shirts
Jared Smith (jsmith) had some black t-shirts with subtle bluehost branding on them, and positive messages people could identify with like: GEEK, and Helping OpenSource Projects Make an Impact. Some people were already wearing dark grey or black t-shirts.
Andres Yajamin (andrefy) mentoring while wearing a Helping OpenSource Projects Make an Impact t-shirt. Photo credit: jsmithTape
Carlos Ospina (camoa) bought some green easy release painters tape.Sleeves
We decided to use the green tape on t-shirts sleeves. This helped people identify mentors from the front and side.
Joaquin Bravo (jackbravo ) mentoring while wearing black t-shirt with green stripes on the sleeves. Photo credit: dasjo
Some sleeves had a lot of detail.
Emma Karayiannis (emma.maria) had their name, username, green stripes and a transparent Drupal 8 sticker on their sleeves. Photo credit: jsmithBack of the t-shirts
Mentors are often leaning over, sitting in a group at a table, ... or wandering around. So, we also put markings on the backs of our shirts.
Novella Chiechi (italiatina ) adding their name to the list of people sprinting, with a big visible exclamation mark on the back of their t-shirt. Photo credit: jthorsonDifferent Shapes
We helped each other, and put different shapes on the back of our shirts. Like balloons and a star trek insignia.
Mentors standing together. One has two balloons, another a star trek insignia made out of green tape. Photo credit: jthorson
We had a lot of creative ideas for shapes, like a smiley face with fangs. And it was really fun!
Back of a mentor t-shirt with a big smiley face, with fangs, made out of green tape. Photo credit: jsmithIn Action
The shirts were noticeable in a crowd.
James Wilson (jwilson3) mentoring at a table. Photo credit: dasjo
Mentors standing out in a crowd. Photo credit: jthorsonLots of shirts!
I like having brightly colored unique mentor shirts at DrupalCons... but this was fun to tape up our own!
Back row: Novella Chiechi (italiatina ), Jared Smith (jsmith), Sebastian Ferrari ( sebas5384 ), Tess (socketwench), Cathy Theys (YesCT), Emma Karayiannis (emma.maria), Renato (revagomes), Darwin Betancourt (drw), Andres Yajamin (andrefy). Front row: Alina Mackenzie (alimac), Eric Aguayo (Ericmaster), Joaquín Bravo Contreras (jackbravo), James Wilson (jwilson3), Fernando Paredes García (develcuy). Photo credit: jsmithMore Photos
See even more mentor photos from DrupalCon Latin America. Please let me know of any I am missing.Reusable mentor T-shirts
We have also been discussing having reusable mentor T-shirts.
orkjerns blogg: Drupal and the Internet of Things
The Internet of Things (or IoT for short) is probably even more of a buzzword than "Headless Drupal", but maybe not so much in Drupal land. As I am a man of buzzwords, let's try to combine these things in one article (Also, there will be video demos)
Or maybe a couple of articles. I feeI have so much to say about this, partly because many articles one can read on the subject IoT deals with having your "thing" on your local network and playing with it over the wifi. We are not going to do that here, as your local network is not the internet. Of course you could forward your router settings to actually put that "thing" on the internet. And then that thing would be available to all hackers that would want to access it. So we are not going to that either in this article. For a first article, I want to explain how I see Drupal and IoT connecting together, and explore the patterns for this.
When we refer to "The Internet of Things" we often refer to devices capable of networking. This could be a car, cell phone or something like a Raspberry Pi, Arduino or Tessel. In this article I will simply refer to a "thing". This means a device we want to extract data from, or interact with via Drupal.A common scenario
First, let's look at a common way of testing out Internet of Things at home. You have a Raspberry pi and you have a temperature sensor. Now, the raspberry pi probably runs a flavour of linux, so you can actually install apache, mysql, php and finally Drupal on it. Then maybe you find a python script that reads the temperature, and you create a node in Drupal with the php filter that will exec this python script and print it inside Drupal. That will work. Except it is not a good idea. For several reasons. Let's go through them:
- Your "thing" will both be a sensor and a webserver. Make it do one thing, and focus on that
- Your Drupal site will run on your local network, and to access it from (for example) your office you would have to make it publicly available in some way.
- Your Drupal site will have the php module installed. You don't want that.
- Your php code will be doing system calls. Please don't do that
Now that I have got that rant out of the way, let me also just say that if you want to go down that road, it is of course a low entry barrier, and if you are restricting access to your local network, then the security concerns are looking a little better. And of course, the php in a node part is not strictly necessary, it just fits with my arguments. So, if you are looking for that kind of tutorial, there are plenty others on the internet.Patterns for communication
As I now have been ranting a bit, let me just point out that this is not a canonical article about IoT best practices or some absolute truths. These are just my opinions on how one could approach this exciting buzzword. Continuing on, let's look at some ways of interacting between a Drupal site and your "thing.
If we look at it as simply one "thing" and one Drupal site, you have two actors in this communication model. So to establish a two-way communcation, we would both want the "thing" talking to Drupal, and Drupal talking to the "thing". This "thing" may represent something physical in the world, like a temperature sensor or a relay switch. So basically it is an interaction between the physical world and your site, so let's use that metaphor. This article will deal with the first and most simple concept of this interaction:The physical world talking to Drupal
Isolated, the wording of that heading looks kind of poetic, doesn't it?
When the physical world is talking to Drupal, I mean it as somewhat of a "push" mode for your "thing". Let's say you are monitoring the temperature in your apartment (physical world) and want to communicate this to your Drupal site. A simple thing to do here is to define an endpoint in your Drupal site where your "thing" would just post updates, and the Drupal site would store the information (of course with some sort of authentication). A one-way communcation to push updates from the physical world to Drupal.
Another theoretical and more intricate form could be something like this:
Say you have a physical store that also is an online store (a typical use case for Drupal). And you are about to have a sale in both places. But you want visitors in the store to have the same oppurtunity as the online visitors to get the good deals. In this scenario you could make it so that the moment the lock on the door was opened, a request is sent to the online store enabling the "sale mode". And when you close in the afternoon, the online store "sale mode" automatically gets disabled. This way, the physical store (or more precisely, the lock on the physical store) actually dictates the state of the online store.
Granted, this is a theoretical example, so let's look at practical and implemented examples instead. I have put together a few quirky demos with varying degrees of usefulness. All examples are actual Drupal 8 sites running on Pantheon, so there is no localhost Drupal instance to talk about. This is the physical world talking to the internet.Remote controlled Drupal 8
The first one kind of reminds of the above example, although maybe not so useful. It is a remote control to "shut down" the Drupal site (put it in maintenence mode). Or more precise: I am turning off the site with my TV remote. If you are wondering why the site refreshes a couple of times, it is because since I used one hand to film and one hand to press the remote, I had the site just update itself every 2 seconds.Temperature monitoring
The second one is a more common one. Presenting the current temperature at a path in Drupal. Here we are just polling for updates to make the video actually show that it works, but a more practical example is probably to post updates every 10 or 30 minutes. Also note that now we can view the temperature from anywhere in the world, while still having our device unreachable over the internet. If you are wondering why am using water, it is because this triggers temperature changes much faster. The glass contains cold water, the cup holds warm water.
And here is a third one. Since I felt like being silly. This one displays the temperature, draws a nice historical graph of the temperature, and changes the color of the header based on the temperature. I must admit that the last part is purely client side in the video, but could theoretically be expanded to actually do this through the color module. I also must admit that the actual hot/warm color calculation could use some tweaking (more than the 6 minutes used on it), but you probably get the pictureDrupal 8 as a "surveillance backend"
For the last example there is something a little more elaborate, and maybe even practical. It uses a sound sensor to listen for sound changes. When the sound trigger is triggered, it takes a picture with the webcam on my mac (you can see the light next to the camera after I snap my finger), posting it to my Drupal site, creating a node. A simple surveillance camera with Drupal as a backend. Also, a very concrete example of the physical world interacting with Drupal, as it is the snapping of my finger (very physical) that creates a node in Drupal.
This article is already getting pretty lengthy, so I'm going to end it here. And before you ask: No, the code for the examples are not yet available. And yes, it will be made available. As I said, all these examples were put together quickly on a sunday morning, and they are all very hardcoded and hackily put together. I will post an update here, and probably a code-dedicated blog post about just that.
Also, I will be following up with the next scenario: Interacting with the physical world from Drupal. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them in the comments. And I would very much be delighted to hear about alternative ways of doing this, people doing similar things or other thoughts on the subject (rants or ideas).
The ending of this post will be a lo-fi gif describing what sceptics usually call the Internet of Things - The Internet of Lightbulbs. Have a nice week!
Thanks to my co-worker zaporylie for reading through the articleTags:
more onion - devblog: Scalable filters and bulk-operations in campaignion
In the last weeks I did some work on optimizing queries for the "Manage Supporter"-Interface in campaignion (online campaigning / online fundraising distribution). The goal is to filter Redhen contacts and then apply bulk-operations on them. In our larger databases we have up to 500,000 contacts and millions of activities - and the queries are not that simple either. How do you get "All supporters that signed at least two petitions last year but never made a donation"?Tags:
Code Karate: Installing a Drupal Site and Database - 2 of 3
In part 2 of the 3 part series, we are looking at how get a Drupal website and database setup and running. If you followed part one, you will remember we are doing this all on our local environment using MAMP. As the video will show, we begin by going to Drupal.org/project/drupal and downloading the newest version of Drupal. At the time of this DDoD, Drupal is at version 7.36.Tags: DrupalInstallation ProfilesDrupal 7Drupal PlanetDeploymentServers
Pixelite: How and why you should update PHP to PHP 5.5 with Drupal
This post is a follow up to my previous blog post on how to upgrade PHP to 5.4 to support Drupal 8.Why you should upgrade PHP
If you are looking for reasons to ditch PHP 5.3, here are some:Security
PHP 5.3 reached end of life in August 2014, this means that if you are running this version, you are running an insecure version of PHP that potentially has security holes in it. This is bad for obvious reasons.Bundled opcode cache
PHP 5.5 is the first version that bundles an opcode cache with PHP, this means there is also no need to also run APC (unless you need userland caching in APCu).Performance
PHP profiled the 5.4 release compared to 5.3 for Drupal, and that found that:
- 7% more requests/second
- 50% PHP memory reduction
PHP 5.5 offers more performance again, and there is a section at the bottom of this article that goes through a real life scenario.Cool new features
Read through the list of new features, here are some neat things you are missing out on:
- try/catch/finally is finally now in
- Short array syntax
- Function array dereferencing
There are a number of ways to update your server to PHP 5.5.Upgrade to Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04
Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04 (which is an LTS version), which comes bundled with PHP 5.5.9. This is probably the best solution if you are managing your own Ubuntu box.Install a PPA on Ubuntu Precise 12.04
If you are running the older Ubuntu Precise 12.04, you can add a PPAsudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install php5 php5 -v
It would be worth considering a dist upgrade though, but this at least can buy you some time.Acquia Cloud UI
If you use Acquia Cloud for hosting there is a convenient PHP version selector in the UI.
More information can be found in the documentation. Be aware, once you upgrade beyond PHP 5.3, you cannot downgrade, so ensure you test your code on a development server first ;)Common coding issues
Although Drupal 7 core, and most popular contributed modules will already support PHP 5.5, it would pay to do a code audit on any custom code written to ensure you are not using things you should not be. Here are some links you should read:
Below are some of the most common issues I have found in sites:Call time pass-by-reference
If you have this in your code, you will have a bad time, as this is now a PHP fatal.foo(&$a); // Bad times. Only variables can be passed by reference
This will cause PHP to throw notices.$ php -a Interactive shell php > ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL); php > var_dump(reset(explode('|', 'Jim|Bob|Cat'))); PHP Strict Standards: Only variables should be passed by reference in php shell code on line 1 Strict Standards: Only variables should be passed by reference in php shell code on line 1 string(3) "Jim"
Where you will likely find this in Drupal in my experience is when manually rendering nodes:
This code works in PHP 5.3, but will throw notices in PHP 5.5:$rendered = drupal_render(node_view(node_load(1), 'teaser'));
The fix is to simply use a temporary variable:$view = node_view(node_load(1), 'teaser'); $rendered = drupal_render($view);
The reason being that drupal_render() expects a variable to be passed in (as it is passed by reference).How do you find coding issues
Enable the syslog module, and tail that in your development environment, hunt down and fix as many notices and warnings as possible. The more noisy your logs are, the harder it is to find actual issues in them. While you are at it, turn off the dblog module, this is only helpful if you do not have access to your syslog (as it is a performance issue to be continually writing to the database).Real world performance comparison
This was taken from a recent site that underwent a PHP 5.3 to 5.5 upgrade. Here are 2 New Relic overviews, taken with identical performance tests run against the same codebase. The first image is taken with PHP 5.3 running:
You can see PHP time is around 260ms of the request.
With an upgrade to PHP 5.5, the time spent in PHP drops to around 130ms. So this is around a a 50% reduction in PHP time. This not only makes your application faster, but also it means you can serve more traffic from the same hardware.Comments
If you have gone through a recent PHP upgrade, I would be interested to hear how you found it, and what performance gains you managed to achieve.
Drupal for Government: Tree cross pollination maps using Drupal! aka debugging drupalgap geofield with genymotion and gapdebug
DrupalGap continues to rock. Today I wanted to test the geofield module and get some maps in my apps... duh... it came about as a result of meeting with Tom Cormons from Appalachian Voices. He mentioned a problem - you often need two trees to pollinate eachother, and only have space for one... an app might help neighborhoods coordinate healthy tree communities.
Anyhow - my dev skills were amok. I followed the instructions on Tyler Frankenstein's site however I wasn't getting the maps to show up on my phone. They showed up fine on the web-app side of things (eg https://www.cvillecouncil.us/mobile-application/index.html#node_23 ) however after building and piping to my android phone I couldn't get the maps to show up on my kyocera hydro (c5170...) ... I needed a debug environment... enter gapdebug! oh yeah... gapdebug only works with android 4.4... my ghetto phone is running android ice cream 4.04... enter genymotion!
Dave Hall Consulting: Managing Variables in Drupal 7
A couple of times recently the issue of managing variables in Drupal 7 has come up in conversation with other developers. This post outlines the various ways of managing variables in Drupal sites. The three things this guide ensures:
- Sensitive data is kept secure
- Variables are correct in each environment
- You are able to track your variables (and when they changed)
The most common place you'll find configuration variables is in Drupal's variable table (aka {variable}). The values in this table are often managed via admin forms that use system_settings_form(). Users enter the values click "Save configuration" and the data is stored in the database.
If you prefer to manage your configuration via the command line and know the variable you wish to set you can use drush vset. This does exactly the same thing as admin form, without needing to click on a mouse.$conf Array
While the variables table is great at storing our variables, there are times when you want to enforce a setting. This might be because you want to prevent users from changing it (accidentally or otherwise) or because you need it to be different in each environment. The $conf array in settings.php always overrides any values in the variable table.
Acquia, Pantheon and platform.sh all provide environment variables so you can use different values in your $conf array depending on the environment.Exporting Variables
In Drupal 7, the common way to export your variables is by using Strongarm with Features. I'm not going to cover how to do this as there is loads of documentation already available on this topic.
If your variable changes on a per environment basis or if it calculated on the fly, then you won't want to use strongarm+features as the exported values are static. You will need to put them in settings.php.
Note to self: I should debug and reroll my patch for adding support in alter hooks strongarm.My settings.php is Out of Control!
This is a common problem, especially on more complex sites. To avoid this I recommend creating sites/default/settings/settings.[env].php files. Your settings.php file should check for the environment in an environment variable and then include the appropriate settings.[env].php file.What About Sensitive Data?
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So...what is the best Coachella line-up ever, of these 10 choices?
After looking at all of these posters again, I went with 2009... McCartney, the Cure, MBV, Moz, Leonard Cohen, Franz, the Chemical Brothers, TV on the Radio, the Presets, A Place to Bury Strangers, Fleet Foxes, MSTRKRFT, MIA, the Killers, Liars, Ariel Pink, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Paul Weller, Throbbing Gristle, PB&J, the Orb, Public Enemy, the Kills, the Horrors, Brian Jonestown Massacre and even Henry Rollins spoken word. That year had a little bit of everything.
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I went through every lineup and rated each day on a scale of 1-10, and then averaged out the days, then sorted them all, and 2006 came out on top.
4/8 Ride @ The Roxy, 4/10 St. Vincent @ The Cosmopolitan, 4/14 Barry Manilow @ Staples Center, 5/2 Desert Daze, 5/8-10 Levitation, 5/16 The Juan Maclean @ The Regent, 6/10 Emmy the Great @ Hotel Cafe, 6/12 Emmy the Great @ Hotel Utah
Just looking at future star power, saturday 2007 had three future headliners (Arcade Fire, Kings of Leon, and Black Keys) as well as a sure thing would-be-headliner (LCD Soundsystem). I don't think any other day matches that in terms of future headliners in ine day.
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The four lines after the 2011 headliners make me weep. Plus that was the last year of one weekend. So motherfucking ecstatic I got to experience it.
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F: AC/DC, Nero, Cloud Nothings, Lykke Li, Interpol, George Ezra, Azealia Banks, Todd Terje, Gorgon City
S: Parquet Courts, Perfume Genius, Danny Tenaglia, Kasabian, Jack White, Royal Blood, TWOD, Chet Faker, What So Not
S: The Orwells, OFF!, St. Vincent, Gesaffelstein, Joyce Manor, Lil B, Kaskade, Madeon
06 is just stupid good. I wish I knew what I know now in 2010. Favorite I attended was 2011. But I had the most fun in 14...go figure.
Saturday 2008 was legendary, but Friday and Sunday had a lot of downtime for me.
4/8 Ride @ The Roxy, 4/10 St. Vincent @ The Cosmopolitan, 4/14 Barry Manilow @ Staples Center, 5/2 Desert Daze, 5/8-10 Levitation, 5/16 The Juan Maclean @ The Regent, 6/10 Emmy the Great @ Hotel Cafe, 6/12 Emmy the Great @ Hotel Utah
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i was not around before 2012. Radiohead got me to the grounds for the first time. so yeah
Too hard to pick just one. Favorite moments over the years include: watching Paul McCartney soundcheck with maybe 100 other people on the field in 2009, Kasabian destroying the Mojave in 2012(still listen to the bootleg almost weekly), meeting Josh Homme and Dave Grohl in 2010, seeing Daft Punk and Madonna from 5 feet away in '06, watching Gorillaz(seeing half the Clash on stage together? Holy shit.) while sitting next to Jay-Z and Beyoncé in 2010, Queens of the Stone Age from sidestage last year, Prince in '08, my wife and kids coming out for a day to hang out in 2013, all the family I've been able to bring over the years including wife, sister, sister in law, 3 nephews, few cousins, their friends. That's what really stands out, the fun I've had with the ones I love most, being able to blow their minds with something that has been so special to me the last 11 years. The lineup has always been secondary to that.
If Kasabian doesn't do a Bay Area show around Coachella I may consider heading down for a day this year. Fingers crossed I can stay close to home, though.
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It has been a charmed existence on those fields...
Oh yeah, another top moment: about to go to bed in the rv around 2am Saturday night 2013. All of a sudden I get a text from Dani seeing if I wanted to meet up. When Dani texts you say yes, haha. Got her directions to our rig, she showed up along with Mike ivankay and a couple others. Got drinks ready and we did a golf cart caravan over to the campgrounds. My first foray over there in all my years attending. It was insane! Not sure how people do that for a whole weekend. Spent a few hours hanging out at the party and then crazy dusty gold cart ride to the back lot to drop people at their cars. Drove by Phoenix sitting at their bus back there and nailed them all with a huge cloud of dust, whoops, haha. Such a great night that almost wasn't. Glad I answered the call!


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Jivitputrika (also Jiutiya or Jiitiya) (Sanskrit: जीवित्पुत्रिका) (Hindi: जिउतिया) (Nepali: जितिया) is a festival in which Nirjala (without water) vrata throughout a day and night, is observed by mothers for the wellbeing of their children. A three-day-long festival is celebrated from seventh to ninth lunar day of Krishna-Paksha in Ashvin month. It is celebrated mainly in Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh states of India and Nepal. In 2013, it would be observed on September 27.[1]
Jivitputrika Vrat Story[edit]
It is believed that once an eagle and a female fox lived in a jungle were friends. Once both of them saw some ladies performing the pooja & fasting, and wished to observe it themselves too. Both of them observed the fast but the fox became unconscious because of hunger and had food quietly. On the other hand, the eagle observed the fast with full dedication and completed it. As a result, all the kids born to the fox used to die a few days after birth and the eagle's offsprings were blessed with long life.
Jimutavahana Story[edit]
According to this story Jimutavahana was the wise and a kind king of Gandharva's. Jimutvanhan was not satisfied being a king and as a result he gave all the responsibilities of his kingdom to his brothers and went to the jungle to serve his father. He used to spend his time taking care of his father.One day while wandering in the jungle he finds an old woman mourning.He asked old woman the reason of weeping on which she told him that she belonged to a family of snakes (Nagvanshaki) and had only one son. But as an oath every day one snake is offered to Pakshiraj Garuda as a feed and that day was her son's chance to become his food. After listening to her problem Jimutavahana consoled her and promised that he would get back her son alive and would protect him from Garuda.He decides to lay down himself on the bed of rocks being presented to the Garuda for the feed. Garuda comes and holds the Jimutvahana covered with red cloth with his fingers and climbs the rock.Garuda finds it surprising when the person he has trapped does not response. He asks the Jimutvahana his identity on which he describes the entire scene to the Garuda.Garuda gets pleased with the bravery and the benevolence of Jimutvahana and leave him and also promises not to take any sacrifice from the snakes. Due to the bravery and generosity of Jimutvahana the race of the snakes was saved and as a result since then the fasts for the children's welfare and long life is observed.
This festival shows great love and extreme affection of mothers towards their children. The mother keeps a very strict fast, without a drop of water thinking of their children. When done with water it is called khur ( dry as hay) Jitiya. 9/11 in New York was on Jitiya, and those mothers fasting even in Chappra & Ranchi were sure their children will be fine in the twin towers, because they were fasting for the long life of their children in India!
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A three day long festival is celebrated from the seventh to the ninth lunar day of Krishna Paksha in Ashwin month that falls generally in September. The first day, the day before Jivitputrika is known as Nahai-khai. On that day mothers take food only after having their bath. On Jivitputrika day, a strict fast is observed without water. This is called Khur Jitiya (khur is dry hay). On the third day, the fast ends with Paaran (taking the first food of the day). In Mithilanchal region of northeastern Bihar and eastern Nepal, a variety of food and a special festival delicacy Jhor Bhaat (Jhor is Curry and Bhaat is white rice), Noni ka saag and Madua ki Roti are prepared. In bhojpuri region of western Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh and terrain of Nepal, Paaran is done with "Noni ka saag, Maruwa ki roti and a vegetable stew of zucchini" (often considered food of extremely poor peoples) The festival is celebrated mainly in the Bhojpuri and Maithili speaking regions of Nepal and Bihar, Jharkhand and Eastern Uttar Pradesh of India.
- ^ "Jivitputrika Vrat to be observed across Bihar on September 27". Biharprabha News.


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San Miguel was very colourful as usual with the boats on the beach and the sheds, nets and floats behind.
Digby has posted some photos, which he has enhanced, on http://coloursofspain.wordpress.com and here are some more.
There were not many people around. Just this solitary fishermen mending his nets.
Then we went on to the church, La Iglesia de Las Salinas, which always makes a nice photo with the boats on the beach in the foreground.
Across the road by the salt flats is a group of cottages with more ramshackle, weathered sheds and old boats.
The wasteland in front of the church was carpeted with the pink flowers of silene.
We also saw clumps of mesembryanthemum in flower.
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The headaches are gone. Finally. So are the doubts, the ones Sidney Crosby couldn't outrun as he rehabilitated from concussion-like symptoms that robbed hockey's best player from two years in the middle of his prime. It's no fun waking up the morning after a punishing workout and have your mind immediately drift to whether or not you'll end the day in a quiet room with the lights off hoping the pain stops. Neither is fending off constant speculation and breathless rumors about your health. Those days, the Pittsburgh Penguins captain insists, have vanished. They disappeared over the summer, when Crosby began his annual summer ritual back home in Canada of pushing himself beyond his limits in an effort to regain the form that made him the most dominant player on the planet before a pair of hits to the head in January 2011 seemed to put his career in jeopardy. ''I'd be lying if I said the first couple weeks I wasn't evaluating that a bit but through the first few workouts, as long a...
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Device-related information is communicated from a device to external equipment, such as test equipment as part of final production of the device. This is done by generating a modulated signal (e.g., by pulse code modulation) that represents the device-related information, and supplying the modulated signal to an indicator light in the device, whereby the indicator light generates a modulated light signal that conveys the device-related information. The indicator light may be a light emitting diode that, during normal operation of the device, indicates a status condition of the device, such as whether the device is on or off.
1. A method of communicating device-related information from a device to external equipment, the method comprising:
generating a modulated signal that represents the device-related information; and
supplying the modulated signal to an indicator light in the device, whereby the indicator light generates a modulated light signal that conveys the device-related information.
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The present invention relates to electronic equipment, and more particularly, to methods and apparatuses that enable electronic equipment to communicate information about itself after it has been assembled.
When electronic equipment is being manufactured, it is not uncommon for testing to be performed on various components as production progresses. As a last step in production, the equipment is mounted in a housing, and a final test is performed to ensure that the equipment is functioning properly. In many instances, this poses no problem because the units being manufactured are identical to one another, so that the same steps are performed during final test from one unit to the next.
In some cases, however, the devices being manufactured are not identical to one another, even though they may nominally perform the same function. For example, some devices may differ from one another with respect to how much memory they have installed, and/or what level of performance can be expected from an installed processor or other component. In other examples, devices may differ from one another even if they are built from identical components.
One such example is a wireless headset such as the one described in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/619,530, filed on Jul. 19, 2000 entitled "Reconfigurable Headset Switch", the entire disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference. The headset described in the referenced U.S. patent application establishes a wireless connection between itself and its associated device, which may be for example a telephone (e.g,. a cellular telephone). The wireless connection may be supported by radio technology, such as BLUETOOTH™-compatible technology. More information about the BLUETOOTH™ wireless technology specification can be found on the Internet at www.bluetooth.com. BLUETOOTH is a trademark owned by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Sweden.
BLUETOOTH™ technology permits a plurality of devices to establish ad hoc networks with one another, as needed. To distinguish one unit from the next over the radio network, each unit is associated with a unique identification number or address. This unique address information is stored within each device. Consequently, equipment such as the above-mentioned wireless headset may differ from one unit to the next in that each has a different address stored therein. This can pose a problem during the final testing of the unit, since it is necessary for the testing apparatus to know the address information of the unit under test before it can attempt to establish a wireless connection with the unit.
A number of techniques are known for providing the device-related information (e.g., the unique address information in the case of the above-mentioned wireless headset) to the testing apparatus. One such solution includes putting a bar code label onto the device, wherein the bar code contains the device-related information. The test equipment can then include a bar code scanner for reading the necessary information off of each device under test. A problem with this solution is that there is often no room on the device under test for a bar code label. For example, the above-mentioned wireless headset is a very compact device that does not offer much surface area for placement of a bar code label.
Another conventional solution includes providing an extra electrical connector on the device. A cable from the test equipment is connected to the extra connector, and the information is communicated from the device under test to the test equipment using known communication techniques. A problem with this solution is that the hardware necessary to support the extra connector (including the extra connector itself) often makes the device heavier and costlier. In a small, portable device, this can be a serious drawback.
Yet another conventional solution involves using communication equipment that is already built into the device under test. For example, in the case of the above-referenced wireless headset, it is known that BLUETOOTH™ equipment is installed. It is then possible to design the device in such a way that the BLUETOOTH™ radio equipment can be utilized to communicate the device-related information from the device under test to the test equipment. This solution, too, has its drawbacks, most notably the slow communication speed afforded by the BLUETOOTH™ connection.
There is, therefore, the need to provide methods and apparatuses that enable a device to communicate its device-related information to external equipment.
It should be emphasized that the terms "comprises"and "comprising", when used in this specification, are taken to specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps or components; but the use of these terms does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, components or groups thereof.
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, the foregoing and other objects are achieved in methods and apparatuses that communicate device-related information from a device to external equipment. This is done by generating a modulated signal that represents the device-related information; and supplying the modulated signal to an indicator light in the device, whereby the indicator light generates a modulated light signal that conveys the device-related information. The type of modulation may be, for example, pulse code modulation. In some embodiments, the modulated signal conveys information at a rate of 1200 baud, although this is not an essential feature of the invention.
In some embodiments, the indicator light is a light emitting diode, although this is not essential to the invention.
It is advantageous, when practicing the invention, to use an indicator light that, during normal operation of the device, is used to indicate a status condition of the device. The status information may be, for example, an on/off condition of the device.
In another aspect of the invention, the device-related information may be address information that is used in establishing ad hoc radio connections with other devices. This may be useful where the ad hoc radio connections are, for example, BLUETOOTH™ connections.
In alternative embodiments, the device-related information may be a serial number of the device; a software version level of software loaded in the device; a production date of the device. In still other alternative embodiments in which the device is battery charger, the device-related information may alternatively be charger status information or an indication of an amount of charging current.
The invention is useful in many types of devices, including but not limited to wireless headsets and battery chargers.
The objects and advantages of the invention will be understood by reading the following detailed description in conjunction with the drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary arrangement of the invention.
The various features of the invention will now be described with respect to the figures, in which like parts are identified with the same reference characters.
The various aspects of the invention will now be described in greater detail in connection with a number of exemplary embodiments. To facilitate an understanding of the invention, many aspects of the invention are described in terms of sequences of actions to be performed by elements of a computer system. It will be recognized that in each of the embodiments, the various actions could be performed by specialized circuits (e.g., discrete logic gates interconnected to perform a specialized function), by program instructions being executed by one or more processors, or by a combination of both. Moreover, the invention can additionally be considered to be embodied entirely within any form of computer readable carrier, such as solid-state memory, magnetic disk, optical disk or carrier wave (such as radio frequency, audio frequency or optical frequency carrier waves) containing an appropriate set of computer instructions that would cause a processor to carry out the techniques described herein. Thus, the various aspects of the invention may be embodied in many different forms, and all such forms are contemplated to be within the scope of the invention. For each of the various aspects of the invention, any such form of embodiment may be referred to herein as "logic configured to" perform a described action, or alternatively as "logic that" performs a described action.
The invention is based on the inventor's observation that many of the devices that need to communicate device-related information to an external apparatus include some sort of indicator light, such as a Light Emitting Diode (LED), that is used to indicate a status condition of the device, such as On/Off. In accordance with the invention, a controller operates the indicator light in such a manner that the device-related information is modulated onto the light that is emitted from the indicator light. To receive this information, the external apparatus is equipped with a suitable optical reader, which detects the light and demodulates it.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary arrangement of the invention. A device 101 includes device-related information (e.g., a device identification number or address) that needs to be communicated to external equipment, such as the illustrated test equipment 103. The device-related information may be stored in a memory device (not shown) within the device 101, or may alternatively be dynamically generated by other circuitry (not shown) within the device 101. The device also includes an indicator light 105 that, during normal operation of the device 101, indicates one or more status conditions pertinent to the device 101. The indicator light 105 may be, for example, an LED that emits visible light (e.g., red or green).
The status conditions normally indicated by the indicator light 105 may include, for example, an indication of whether the device 101 is powered on or off. For this purpose, the indicator light receives controlling signals that may emanate from one or more other circuits (not shown) within the device 101.
In accordance with the invention, the indicator light 105 is also used to communicate device-related information. To support this function, the device 101 further includes a modulator circuit 107 that receives the device-related information, and generates control signals that cause the indicator light 105 to generate a modulated light signal, wherein the modulated light signal carries the device-related information. The device 101 can be designed to flash the device-related information one or more times whenever the device 101 is powered on. In practice, the modulation would be at a high enough rate (e.g., 1200 baud) that the human eye would see only a very short flash—there is no way that the human eye would see that the flash contains data. Alternatively, if it is desired not to expend power on this function needlessly (e.g., after the device has been placed into the hands of the consumer), the device 101 can be designed to flash the information only a first number of times that it is powered on, that is, only during those times when the device is expected to undergo an initial product test.
To receive the device-related information, external equipment such as the illustrated test equipment 103 includes a light sensitive device 109. The light sensitive device 109 detects the modulated light signal emanating from the device indicator light 105 and generates a corresponding modulated signal within the test equipment 103. The modulated signal is supplied to a demodulator circuit 111 within the test equipment 103. The demodulator circuit 111 demodulates the modulated signal to reproduce the device-related information, which can then be supplied to other circuitry (not shown) within the test equipment 103.
Circuitry for modulating and demodulating a light signal are known, and need not be described here in detail. For example, Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) can be used to superimpose a binary form of the device-related information onto the light that emanates from the indicator light 105.
The above-described technique for communicating device-related information from a device to external equipment has a number of advantages. First, it is able to communicate information relatively quickly. For example, a BLUETOOTH™ address, comprising a 12 digit hexadecimal number, can be communicated within a second where the modulator 107 is operating at 1200 baud. By comparison, use of the BLUETOOTH™ technology itself to communicate this same information over a radio link can take up to 15 seconds because a cumbersome inquiry protocol must be followed.
Another advantage of the invention is that it does not require extra hardware costs.
Yet another advantage of the invention is that it also functions as a test of the indicator light 105. That is, if the device-related information is successfully communicated from the device 101 to the test equipment 103, it means that the indicator light 105 is functioning properly. This saves having to test the indicator light 105 by other means, such as by visual inspection.
The invention has been described with reference to a particular embodiment. However, it will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art that it is possible to embody the invention in specific forms other than those of the preferred embodiment described above. This may be done without departing from the spirit of the invention.
For example, the invention has been described with respect to a device that needs to communicate device-related information to external equipment. It is emphasized that the invention may be applied to any sort of equipment needing to communicate any device-related information, and is not limited to the examples give above. For example, in addition to the above-described examples (including a wireless headset that employs BLUETOOTH™ technology), the inventive techniques can be applied to enable a microprocessor within a power supply (e.g., a telephone charger) to utilize its indicator light to communicate information about the charger status or the charging current. These and other devices can also employ the inventive techniques to inform external equipment of an internally-stored serial number, software version and/or production date.
By utilizing the above-described techniques, the use of extra plugs or connections can be avoided, and the servicing of equipment can be made more easily and quicker.
Thus, the preferred embodiment is merely illustrative and should not be considered restrictive in any way. The scope of the invention is given by the appended claims, rather than the preceding description, and all variations and equivalents which fall within the range of the claims are intended to be embraced therein.
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Obama announced Wednesday that the United States had reached a deal with the Castro regime that will see a reestablishment of full diplomatic relations with Cuba. "This is a historic step forward in our efforts to normalize our relationship with the Cuban government and people," Obama said in a statement outside the White House. "There have been very real, profound differences between our governments, and sometimes we allow ourselves to be trapped by a certain way of doing things. For the United States, that meant clinging to a policy that was not working. Instead of supporting democracy and opportunity for the Cuban people, our efforts to isolate Cuba, despite our good intentions, had the opposite effect."
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House speaker John Boehner also blasted the decision. "The Obama administration is handing the Castros a lifetime dream of legitimacy without getting a thing for the Cuban people being oppressed by this brutal communist dictatorship," Boehner said in a statement. "As I've said before, relations with the Castro regime should not be revisited, let alone normalized, until Cubans enjoy freedom – and not one second sooner."
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