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Pantheon: Upgrading Drupal Core Easily!

Ever find upgrading your Drupal core when a new release comes out to be a PITA? Well Pantheon makes this sooo freaking easy! There have been three or four new releases since I last blogged (currently on release 17), and updates to Drupal core (currently at 7.2). With the latest Pantheon release, I'll show you just how easy they've made the upgrade process for us!

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Code Sprint for Upgrading COD to Drupal 7

A couple weeks ago I caught wind that the San Diego Drupal user group was hosting a code sprint to port COD (Conference Organizing Distribution) from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.

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Moving my site to Pantheon

Quite recently I switched over my site, sirkitree.net, to the Pantheon hosting and development platform. I had upgraded the site to Drupal 7 which ate more resources on my current shared server solution and needed to find another solution. DrupalCon came and I ended up grabbing a beta code for Pantheon from a developer one evening over drinks, so I decided to give it a shot for my blog. I had tried it a few months before, back in December/January, but the dashboard and workflow had become much more polished in just those few short months.

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Finally upgraded to D7

After going to the Webchick Drupal 7 Tour the other week in Denver (coming soon to the East Coast!), reading Nate's blog post on upgrading, and participating in some internal discussions on the line with my co-workers at Lullabot, I finally overcame my dread at a prospective painful process and upgraded my blogs (this one and

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Of bots and URL shorteners

jjeff recently created a URL shortening service at http://lbt.me which we're using for internal things at Lullabot, like our addresses on our business cards. Mine happens to be http://lbt.me/sirkitree for example. It's a fun little project he calls shUrly. This is great because as a service I was able to integrate the bot module with our service and now am able to have our IRC bot return shortened urls for us. Fun stuff!

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Is Microsoft threatened by Drupal?

I came across this article in on http://news.rapidwatersdev.com today which has a filter to pull Drupal items out of Digg.com - I'm found it interesting, though maybe hype, but was interested to see if the community found any merit here...

http://mridul.co.in/Aviyalism/Microsoft-thinks-Drupal-is-a-greater-threa...

The Listology.com link that is referenced in the article above, but fails to actually link to is:
http://listology.com/jwalling/list/1000-drupal-web-sites-case-studies

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Rapid Waters Development

A new chapter in my life has begun. The corporate life is behind me for now and I've started out on my own with my best friend and co-founder of our new company, Rapid Waters Development.

The old days

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CKEditor 3.0 and WYSIWYG API 2.0

Before I sat down to write this article, not only did a drink a little Southern Comfort, but I installed the WYSIWYG API version 2.0 from drupal.org, CKEditor version 3.0 from ckeditor.com and applied this patch (for CKEditor support in WYSIWYG API) as well as this small one line change

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Drupal.org Redesign sprint in SF

I got the chance to help out with the Drupal.org redesign sprint Friday and Saturday afternoon at the Chapter 3 offices in San Francisco. I mainly helped out with the Dashboard project, creating the functionality of being able to move dashboard gadgets from one page to another by dragging them onto the various tabs across the top.

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Exporting users with Views Bulk Operations

Have you ever needed to export users into a csv file from Drupal? Working in corporate environments, I've had to do this many a time, and it's usually a PITA. However, the new Views Bulk Operations (or VBO) just made that job much, much easier. VBO is an awesome style plugin for Views 2 that can turn pretty much any view into an administrative interface for bulk operations by allowing you to apply system actions and hook_[user/node/comment]_operations() to whatever your view displays. You can read more about it on the project page; I'm just here to tell you about how I used it to make a common task a lot easier.

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