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Re: Doing It With Drupal

RobLoach — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:29:30 -0000

No, Erika. It's you who rocks!

Re: Baby rabbits in a hole in my back yard

RobLoach — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:46:58 -0000

Ummm, does this look familiar to you?
http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1406416

Re: Drupal Websites on the iPhone | Rob Loach .Net

RobLoach — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:33:32 -0000

Unfortunately not, I took it down. The theme is still there though, and I'm open to any contributions! http://drupal.org/project/iui

Re: jQuery Disqus Plugin

RobLoach — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:45:40 -0000

Thanks Jasper, I rolled the update in jQuery Disqus 1.1.25.

Re: jQuery Disqus Plugin

RobLoach — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:37:51 -0000

Good find, Jasper! I created a ticket for this at http://drupal.org/node/524340 and will hit it up tomorrow. Thanks!

Re: Drupal Websites on the iPhone | Rob Loach .Net

RobLoach — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:54:10 -0000

There have bound to be problems with it. I haven't used it in a long time, but would love any contributions to help fix it ;-) . Just stay active on the issue queue and if you figure something out, post a note! http://drupal.org/project/issues/iui .

Re: Off to Washington for DrupalCon DC

RobLoach — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:51:10 -0000

Definitely was a busy week. Here you are!!! http://www.flickr.com/photos/robloach/335712286...

I think my favourite Dmitri moment at DrupalCon was when they got your age wrong.

Re: Off to Washington for DrupalCon DC

RobLoach — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:49:58 -0000

Why didn't you go? Will you be hitting up Paris in September?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/robloach/sets/7215...

Re: Off to Washington for DrupalCon DC

RobLoach — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:49:37 -0000

The conference was amazing! It's great to get the chance to meet the people you talk with on IRC all the time.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/robloach/sets/7215...

Re: Dell's Adamo Revealed: Big Luxury, Big Price, Low Greenness

RobLoach — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:53:00 -0000

I made this reply from my email client!

Re: Off to Washington for DrupalCon DC

RobLoach — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:37:17 -0000

Haha, it was because the event ended, and the calendar only showed "this week" ;-) . I just removed it. Thanks!

Re: Export Data to CSV

RobLoach — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:40:16 -0000

Views DataSource (http://drupal.org/project/views_datasource) has made Views Bonus Pack a thing of the passed. The missing thing is CSV:
http://drupal.org/node/283807

Re: Doing It With Drupal

RobLoach — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:15:06 -0000

I believe you should just put "angelav" in your account settings in the Drupal Disqus settings.

Re: A new version of Radio Alarm Clock to annoy you each morning

RobLoach — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:51:13 -0000

Not sure how stable those libraries are though... 2007 SoC? Might work,
might not ;-) .

Re: Disqus and Drupal: Rethinking Comments | Rob Loach .Net

RobLoach — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:12:15 -0000

If you enable it in your Disqus administration, yes.

Re: Drupal and the Desktop Online | Rob Loach .Net

RobLoach — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:50:27 -0000

Really sorry, but I don't have the code anymore....

Re: kkkkkkk

RobLoach — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:14:22 -0000

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Re: kkkkkkk

RobLoach — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:12:27 -0000

This is child of test, damn it.

Re: SoundMAX + Vista = Pain and fail

RobLoach — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:22:04 -0000

MonoDevelop 2.0 is pretty slick now. I use Eclipse primarily though. If you're looking to build .NET software applications, the closest you can get on Linux is a Windows XP/Vista VirtualBox, or Mono.... VirtualBox is pretty awesome though, particularly with seamless mode turned on.

Re: Unspoken Rules of Drupal

RobLoach — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:47:07 -0000

Hey Tom! Loved your post :-) .

1 & 2: What if you want Drupal behind a reverse proxy? What if you want to use memcached? node and path caching with advcache? Serving files from a dedicated file server? All require changing core. Drupal core is not perfect and does not provide all the flexibility needed, especially when running large sites on more than one machine.

I have absolutely no problem with changing core, as long as it's documented where the patch is in the drupal.org issue queue. I wouldn't consider that hacking core because it's documented, and it's publicly available on drupal.org.

If you're behind a reverse proxies, you should be participating in one of the oldest Drupal.org node issues available: http://drupal.org/node/7881

For dedicated or external file servers, it really depends on what you're trying to accomplish, but the Media Mover API is pretty robust. Of course, it depends on what you're doing. Amazon S3 anyone?

Memcache is here. Advcache is here. Both are documented and there is a push for more of this in Drupal core itself.

Again, I have no problems with changing core, as long as there's some documentation outlining what's going on, as well as an ongoing issue in the Drupal issue queue so that progress is made into making it possible to accomplish the same thing without having to change core. It's hacking core that I'm against.

Also, upgrading a hacked core is actually very easy - download the release tarball of the version you're running, download the latest release tarball, diff 'em and apply that patch to your hacked core, I've gone from 5.2 to 5.11 without having to hand patch a single thing.

Upgrading a hacked core is possible, but isn't that fun. Can't go wrong with a simple "cvs update -r DRUPAL-5-11".

4. Ugh, there are so many half-finished, poorly written or overly general modules out there. Yes, I could use messaging and notifications module to send email alerts when someone replies to each user's comment. It would add nearly 9k lines of complex code to my Drupal install and require hours to learn to configure or I could write my own in 100 lines in a couple hours.

I hit this all the time and I really wish that I could have the resources to fix all the problems that I find in contributed modules that I use/maintain. Sometimes, you do have to just put together your own small solution into fixing something that already exists. In a Drupal Utopian society, however, every contributed module would be awesome and do what it advertises perfectly. The big ones (CCK and Views) fall in this category and that's part of what has been attributed to Drupal's success. Other small unpopular contributed modules though? Not so much. Sad, but true....

Someone inspired by fc_helper hell?

lol

7. This would be great except for the 200 lines of errors that all my contrib modules generate. Another point against #4

Again, spend a bit of time hacking at the module and contribute a patch. It might resurrect the module so that everyone could benefit from it again. You're right though, sometimes we just don't have the resources available to fix things and just have to hack our own solution.

9. Mostly agree, but deadpr0grammer seems to have a good time complaining about everything, might be worth a shot.

Haha, you know him too well.

Re: Unspoken Rules of Drupal

RobLoach — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:52:09 -0000

Patch++

Re: Unspoken Rules of Drupal

RobLoach — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:08:19 -0000

Dave wins!

Re: Unspoken Rules of Drupal

RobLoach — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:27:11 -0000

Haha, caught on my own rules! :-)

Re: Drupal and the Desktop Online | Rob Loach .Net

RobLoach — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:50:39 -0000

Unfortunately not because I don't really know Java. I'm sure there's a SOAP/REST/XML-RPC client for Java that you could use though.

Re: Disqus and Drupal: Rethinking Comments | Rob Loach .Net

RobLoach — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:27:43 -0000

Hey, I'd love to see a patch for this.... http://drupal.org/node/286057