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How I rebuilt my website on Drupal 7

June 18, 2011

I built my last website when Drupal 5 was still considered hot stuff and Drupal 6 was a mere dream – in other words, a long time ago. It did me very well, but I let it languish and age until it was unreasonable to work with any longer. This primarily occurred because I had not built it sustainably and it was much too cumbersome to make modifications. This time around I vowed to build in a sustainable fashion that would leave room for growth.

I am going to outline just how I did that! This post goes over my planning, how I broke up the functionality into discrete feature modules, and show you the code.

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drupal
development
showcase

Building a Product on top of Drupal

February 16, 2010

For the past year, all of my Drupal work has been devoted to building a product on top of Drupal. In the beginning of the year, I worked with the Science Collaboration Framework to create PD Online. For the past 7 months, I have been with   continue ...

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deployment
development
drupal
drupalcon
version control
Drupal Planet

Structured Array of all US Universities and Colleges

January 13, 2010

While working on a project, I came to the conclusion that I needed to have an array of all colleges and universities within the United States. I searched around and came across this website which contained only an unordered list of universities in an HTML page. I extracted all of the information and generated an array with the university’s domain name as the key.

Of course after I completed this, I realized I didn’t need it. D’oh!  continue ...

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code snippet
php

Tales from a web developer

June 1, 2009

I do web development locally. I have a rather powerful computer, dual core 2.5Ghz processor and 4GB of RAM. The problem is… my computer is a laptop. As such, it can suffer from overheating problems.

Last night, I decided I wanted to test to ensure a mass user mail feature worked as expected. The following exchange occurred on IRC:  continue ...

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development

Excited about Design 4 Drupal Boston

May 24, 2009

Since I live in New England, and I adore any Drupal social events, I am of course attending Design 4 Drupal this June! I’m excited to have another large event to meet up with and talk with other Drupal enthusiasts.  continue ...

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drupal
drupalcon

Get the Drupalcon Schedule in your Google Calendar or iCal

February 27, 2009

I’ve put the entire Drupalcon Schedule into a Google Calendar. This allows you to access it on your smart phone or any other internet-enabled device. I am also putting in social events, with links and addresses (which can automatically be linked to a map). If there are any changes to the schedule, I will be able to make the update through my phone as soon as I hear about it.  continue ...

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drupal
drupalcon
Drupal Planet

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