drupal

Sometimes, when using Drupal, I find that I want to link to some of my older posts. However, I often have a couple of development checkouts of my site. Consider the case where I have the live site, which can be reached at http://iheartryan.com/, and I have a development checkout, http://localhost/iheartryan/. Now, say I'm trying to link to my Rhythmbox Playlist Folders post. How should I make this link? I have a couple choices:

1. http://iheartryan.com/post/rhythmbox-playlist-folders
2. /post/rhythmbox-playlist-folders

The other day, I was working on a Drupal site. I based the theme for the site on the Zen theme (ver 1.1).

I was experiencing a very strange problem: I could not save any of the changes I made on the theme configuration page. I tried to change the logo. I tried to make it display the slogan. Nothing worked.

The latest release of the Drupal Autosave module (version 5.x-3.2) was made with the explicit intention of making it work without the presence of the TinyMCE wysywig editor.

Sadly, this did not work out for me. Fortunately, the fix was quick and easy. I've posted it here, and also on their bugtracker. This diff applies against 5.x-3.2.

I wanted to give you all anonymous access to my public git repositories, and I wanted to add a special field in my Drupal "Blog Post" content type to allow it.  (Results can be seen in my post about dbgp).  It was all pretty standard.  I added a field to my content type.  The field was of type "Link", as provided by the Drupal Link module.

I just struggled with a ...bug?? that drove me a little crazy.  My site was chugging along just fine and then I would save a node, or a configuration or something, and suddenly all my views that used votingapi would blow up.

I kept looking for things that caused it -- was it the module I just enabled?  Was it this?  That?

I found out the problem, and it was subtle.

In setting up this site, I accidentally forgot to allow anonymous users to vote on my posts. Sorry about that. It's fixed.
But I did uncover a bug in the "Fivestar" module that I was using for voting.
Even though I told it to put the voting widget above the text of the node, it ended up putting it below for anonymous users. I fixed the bug. You can read all about it on my bug post, or download the patch from me.
The patch applies against fivestar 5.x-1.12.

So, I just set up this website to keep track of all the open-source software things that I think about and do. Of course, I would never dream of setting up a blog site using software other than Drupal. At my work, and as favors or volunteer work, I've set up a number of webpages using Drupal. It provides the best of a content-management system, and a "web application framework". A website running Drupal can be made into almost anything.