I Did It

The Domain Name System is a distributed database that maps names to computers' IP addresses. It's one of the cornerstones of the Internet.

Because it is so important, there are many standard ways of working with it. Some people, for example, may want to cache their DNS results if they have a slow connection to the Internet, or to their DNS server in particular. Linux, for example, provides caching hooks right in the GNU C library. Windows also provides DNS caching.

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.

Sure, GUIs are nice and all, but I'm more of a command-line user. But does that mean that I have to cross the rubicon into command-line land and never come back? I should hope not!

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.