Drupal

Drupal

The most highly modular FOSS CMS that I know of. It has become a pleasure to work in this framework.

 

Backing up w/ Drush

I love drush

Drush, my favorite new tool, is proving to be quite useful.  Drush saves you time by picking up your connection string from the sites settings.php folder that you're backing up, you no longer need to configure each backup script individually. 

sample usage for this script would be:

bash backup.sh /full/path/to/drupal/site <optional> archive_prefix <optional> #of days to keep archives for

Taxonomy data as term view header

If you would like to create a page view that takes a term id as an argument (like my technology, portfolio pages), You can use the following code in the header of the Views 2 Taxonomy Term view.

Kokopellis Earth

Launch Date(s): 
Dec 2 2009

Sometimes I get requests from friends to help them with a business they're trying to get started. Often times when someone is considering how to get going, one of the first bullet points is "Create a basic website". I met with my friend and helped him figure out what pieces of his business process he could efficiently and feasibly do within his budget. In this discussion it became clear that as a art and music venue he needed to:

Philadelphia Mountain Biking Association

Launch Date(s): 
Nov 27 2006
Apr 1 2007
Jan 31 2009
Apr 1 2010
May 11 2010

PMBA, a chartered IMBA chapter club, is a charitable non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

PMBA is an organized group of mountain biking enthusiasts who share a common love of the sport and a desire to promote it. We are composed of all levels and types of riders, young and old, many of whom enjoy volunteering to build and maintain trails as much as we enjoy riding on them.

June 2010

The web committee has shipped a new Drupal based website. This was a big project and I have to thank Nick Uniatowski for his design skills, and Kris Molendyke for the new iPhone app, along with his *nix l337 skillz.  The project consisted of:
  • We migrated all Joomla/AEC/SMF forum data to Drupal/CiviCRM
  • Setup CiviCRM to process new and recurring memberships
  • Custom ZEN based sub theme
  • iPhone application
  • Photo gallery
  • User directory

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