Drush is a command line tool to interact with the Drupal Open Source CMS (Get it? DRUpal SHell). It is an invaluable tool that many Drupal developers love once they start using it. Another tool I personally love greatly is the XDebug PHP debugger. I use it almost daily to quickly find out what is [...]
Author Archives: Eelke
Google gets you the domain name you deserve
It looks like Google may send traffic your way for domain names you don’t even own. How?
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WAT
Extremely funny. For programmers, that is. Via @berkes. Go to the original article »
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Changing a user’s password in OpenX 2.8
The user management of OpenX is a little confusing if you are used to other systems. There is a blog-post about the user system on the OpenX-blog giving a good overview. One aspect that they seem to have forgotten is dat users may want to change their password. A “I forgot my password” link is [...]
No more multi-language
So you may see a few weird menu items, blog posts and/or categories. This is because I disabled the WPML (multi-language) plugin. Recently, they went commercial and since then (or thereabouts) I’ve had trouble updating. Then, my server was hacked. I am not in the least way implying this was due to WPML, but the [...]
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Lego MindStorms digital clock
I can’t wait until my kid will be old enough to play with Lego (OK, so that may be slightly premature, considering we’re due in april). Maybe I shouldn’t look for excuses and just get some. This stuff is so cool. Incidentally, the numbers are black on white. Believe it or not, I took a [...]
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Piccies of 2011 holiday
I warned you this blog would be about anything I like. So just a quick post to say I’ve put my holiday pictures up on Flickr.
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Finding number of Drupal-nodes created per hour in a single query
For a customer I’ve been running an import of old content into a Drupal installation and I got the feeling that the process seemed to run slower and slower. We say “meten is weten” in Dutch (“measuring is knowing”), so I wondered if it was possible to write a single SQL query to find out [...]
Video: Getting Started with Apache Solr
None of this Drupalified “there’s a module for that” stuff. This is hard core, direct talking to Solr
Wall Street Journal: What Part of ‘Mini’ Did You Not Grasp, BMW?
This reviewer from the Wall Street Journal puts into words what has been my opinion about the Mini Countryman for a while. It’s great my dad still gets to drive a Mini because of it, it’s a great drive, I might even consider it myself if I was really pressed for space. But… We’d never [...]
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