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Top Social Entrepreneurs

Submitted by tyler_renelle on Wed, 06/23/2010 - 09:44

There are some awesome things happening in the world of Social Entrepreneurship! A lot of companies are saving the world and making a killing. Here are some of the top dogs to keep your eye on. Read more »

Drupal Upgrade vs Migrate

Submitted by tyler_renelle on Tue, 06/22/2010 - 19:33

Drupal 7 is just around the corner, and it has such an architectural paradigm shift to make it quite difficult for those trying to upgrade. There are handful of modules which will be deprecated due to changes in architecture (namely fields-in-core).  Content Profile & Ubercart, while not being deprecated, are likely to lose out their new brands Profile2 and Drupal Commerce respectively.  The big dogs CCK, Views, & Panels will likely be delayed on their upgrade paths because of the complexity.  Because of all this, you need to figure out how you're going to be running your upgrade.  There are two possible methods I see, and another method on which I'd like to hear thoughts.

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Xdebug, Geben, & Emacs for PHP on Ubuntu 10.4

Submitted by tyler_renelle on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 11:35

The default emacs package on Ubuntu is an older version which doesn't work with php-mode.el, sr-speedbar, and a bunch of other useful PHP-editing extensions. However, it's not sufficient to simply compile the latest Emacs from source, because you'll need the matching Xdebug version as well. So we'll need to install all three from source. Read more »

Unified content_profile and user page

Submitted by tyler_renelle on Mon, 06/07/2010 - 10:39

When you install content_profile, out of the box you have two user profile pages: (1) the drupal core user page (/user/%), and (2) the content-profile node pages (node/%).  These pages don't provide exactly the same information (there's some overlap), which ends up confusing users when they're viewing user profiles.

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Proper folder permissions: Drupal & Ubuntu

Submitted by tyler_renelle on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 12:40

For some reason, I can't find D.O documentation on the proper folder permissions for Drupal on Linux. So for those of you a-searchin', here's my setup:

Edit: the handbook page is http://drupal.org/node/244924 (from comment), so go there to see alternatives and discussion.

cd /var/www

# u=rwx,g=rx for security
sudo chown -R {username}:www-data .
sudo chmod -R 750 .

# Let apache write to sites/{sitename}/files directories
find . -type d -wholename "*/sites/*/files" -exec sudo chmod -R 770 {} \;

# Make sure newly-created files retain the www-data group (useful for Drush)
# You don't want to apply this to files, only directories.  Hence the round-about method
sudo chmod g+s .
find . -type d -exec sudo chmod g+s {} \;

Save the World With Firefox: Charity Extensions

Submitted by tyler_renelle on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 18:36

Long ago a project was born called SETI@home. The idea was to donate your unused CPU cycles to help calculate things that were too big for a handful of supercomputers. It was funny & cool, helping search for extra-terrestrial life.  Then the project became generalized into BOINC, enabling the development of all sorts of very important and serious volunteer distributed computing projects. Read more »

Installing apachesolr.module on Ubuntu 10.04

Submitted by tyler_renelle on Thu, 05/13/2010 - 17:00

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) just made installing the Apache Solr module for Drupal sooooo much easier. This setup won't work for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), because the aptitude install bit only works for tomcat5.5. If you're on 9.10, check out Nick Veenhof's article. Otherwise, enjoy! Read more »

my.cnf order-of-precedence

Submitted by tyler_renelle on Tue, 04/06/2010 - 11:20

I'm a MAMP guy -- it' just easy. Recently I went down a rabbit hole trying to install Apache/MySQL/PHP via MacPorts, broke everything, and tossed in the towel. However, when I tried to revert back to MAMP, I kept getting the following error:

$mysql
>ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock' (2)

A peek into /Applications/MAMP/Library/my.cnf showed socket = /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock, so everything should have been working! Read more »

Phusion Passenger & RJB

Submitted by tyler_renelle on Tue, 03/30/2010 - 17:29

I have a Rails app using RJB that works find in WEBrick/Mongrel; however, when I deploy the app on Phusion Passenger, it either gets stuck loading or spits out the following error:

/app/vendor/plugins/pdf-stamper/lib/pdf/stamper.rb:41: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [x86_64-linux]
[Tue Mar 30 16:05:54 2010] [error] [client 67.205.3.31] Premature end of script headers: fillpdf
[ pid=5007 file=ext/apache2/Hooks.cpp:684 time=2010-03-30 16:05:54.678 ]:
  The backend application (process 5015) did not send a valid HTTP response; instead, it sent nothing at all. It is possible that it has crashed; please check whether there are crashing bugs in this application.
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Snow leopard tarball-uploading issues

Submitted by tyler_renelle on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 17:21

Here's the scenario:

  1. Create a tarball on your Mac (of a .git repo in my case) [ex, $tar czf repo.tgz repo.git]
  2. scp that up to your server running Linux [ex, $scp repo.tgz user@server.com]
  3. extract the tarball on your server [ex, $tar xzf repo.tgz

And you're barraged with a bunch of the following:

tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink'
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