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I’ve been testing Webgility eCC with Ubercart and Dazzle and Stamps.com. Okay, I expect anyone who makes it to this page will know what all of those are, but in brief: Ubercart is a shopping cart system built on Drupal. I love the power of Drupal CCK (custom structured data fields of any imaginable sort) [...]
I have been tearing my hair out a bit trying to figure out how to save a whole taxonomy lineage in Drupal, so that everything tagged with a child term would be tagged with a parent term. In other words, given a taxonomy like: 1. United States 3. California 4. Vermont 2. Canada 5. Alberta [...]
Read on to find out how »Validation, fixed width, fixed fonts, javascript OH MY! What matters when evaluating a theme for my Wordpress or Drupal site?
Read on for some tongue-in-cheek advice »If you’ve torn you hair out and still don’t really feel totally comfortable with the Drupal forms API, or with getting your module to affect the menu system or have lingering questions about anything in Drupal core, this book is a godsend. It is so much clearer and more accessible than the online documentation and the index is great. Within the first day I had it, it saved me a couple of hours of effort. Highly recommended.
Read my review of Pro Drupal Development (two thumbs up) »I’ve been wondering which image toolkit is likely to result in lower resource usage (especially coming up against the PHP memory limit) for applications like Gallery and Drupal. People used to always say the resize quality was better with ImageMagick versus GD, but I think GD2 closed much of that gap. But what about resources? [...]
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There’s not much to say. This site is maintained (to put it charitably!) by Tom Lambert, a historian by profession, an outdoorsman by avocation and a geek by nature.
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