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Ever wondered how you could make your module compatible with Features?

If you are new on Drupal and bewildered by what it means to obtaining GIT access, it is actually pretty simple and does not take more than a couple of minutes.

The ‘Preview’ functionality in Drupal, that allows you to see how a node is rendered in Drupal, before it is saved and Published, is not always fully useful to ‘preview’ or ‘stage’ your content. Reasons could be many - One of them being - It simply would not working if you are using Views to display your node!. Until the node is published and saved, it may not be possible to preview how the node will be displayed in the view.

Reasons aside, though not always acknowledged, it is true that the perspective of most other people towards Indians is a bit on the lower side in many of the technology communities. We are annoying half-knowledged self-proclaimed technical geeks with little or no real expertise in most cases. Well, atleast in some of the open source communities, this is definitely the case.

This notes is meant for share at Drupal India Hangout #2 @ 9.30AM IST on 6th April 2013, organized by Shyamala from Chennai.

Setting up MongoDB on a Ubuntu Box

Had a copy of this book today. Though the cover gave me an impression that this book could be the missing manual for the Migrate Module, it happens to be no where close to it.

The book is more of a do-it-yourself visual guide to using the Feeds Module. It covers importing content using Feeds, manipulating content while importing using Feeds Tamper Module.

I use StatCounter on one of my content sites www.gusagusa.com. With so much of traffic from search engines, the guy who maintains the website suggested that we show the incoming search terms on the pages of the site, so as to show the keywords on the site. 

Wordpress has many plugins that for that. Since we run Drupal, a quick search showed that there are some module available for Drupal too.

Built a Small Drupal Module Last night. "Block Inject Filter".

Many times, mostly in content sites, the administrators find it difficult to find means of inserting ads in all of their articles, at the end of a per-defined paragraph, say 2nd paragraph. Block Inject Filter solves this by providing a configurable Text Filter that can be used on any Input Format in Drupal.

It can be configured to inject any predefined Custom Block into all content that use the Text Format which has the filter configured.

Was building a web service that serves RSS feeds from an existing Drupal website today. The feed URL had to accept parameters like the Drupal site username and password for authentication, dates for
filtering the nodes to be rendered in the feeds. I have heard about the Services module or customizing the Drupal RSS feed as needed.