chad's blog

An Introduction to Drupal's Command Line Interface, Drush

Submitted by chad on Sun, 07/03/2011 - 21:31

I previously wrote about a couple of bash scripts I wrote to manage Drupal core and module updates via SVN. While those scripts handle the basics pretty well, I realized that I needed to get to know Drush. I have a few Drupal upgrade project's coming up, so I spent the past few days getting familiar with Drush. Here's what I've learned so far.

Twitter Module for Gallery 3: Share Your Photos, Movies, and Albums with your Followers

Submitted by chad on Thu, 05/19/2011 - 08:59

I've just packaged and posted the final 1.0 release of a Twitter module for Gallery 3. Share photos, movies, and albums with your Twitter followers, directly from Gallery. Give it a try!

Bash scripts to streamline the Drupal core and module update process via Subversion

Submitted by chad on Mon, 02/21/2011 - 08:21

Drupal is a great foundation for so many types of web sites. The Drupal community continuously improves its core and the growing list of add-on modules to extend functionality and improve security. If you manage several Drupal sites, all of this extending and improving can make keeping Drupal up-to-date a time-consuming task. Here are a few notes about how I maintain my Drupal and a few shell scripts I've created to streamline the process.

bit.ly module for Gallery 3

Submitted by chad on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 23:09

I finally made some time to get back to work on Gallery. Step one, create a simple module to shorten Gallery 3 album, photo, and movie links with bit.ly. Step two is to create a Twitter module which will make use of the bit.ly module.

Del.icio.us evacuation procedure for your bookmarks

Submitted by chad on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 19:05

Thanks to @andrew_k for posting an awesomely simple curl command to dump bookmarks for a del.icio.us account.

@andrew_k's del.icio.us evacuation procedure