Drupal 7

I took my Acquia Certification exam this weekend. Cleared it with 75%. Though I am taking huge pride in probably being the first from India to have cleared/taken the certification, I acknowledge that my score is a bit embarrassing. I attribute the low score to my poor theming and JS skills which I should be working on this year.

Most projects and companies have a clearly defined process for onboarding new people onto projects. They have a well-defined list of accesses and credentials to be provided as soon as the person joins the project.

Graphics Courtesy: Multi-Headed Drupal by Larry Garfield at Drupalcon Munich

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.

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.