Techblog Archive

Google Docs spreadsheets can be accessed through an API. This can be used to directly process data from a spreadsheets and update them.

This article about the contrib module ShareMessage developed by MD Systems describes the two different ways of how to display ShareMessage on a Drupal site. In a second step it describes the capability of this module to override an original ShareMessage on a page with another one that points to the same page.

In PHP things can go wrong easily. That’s totally OK. What’s not OK is if you don’t know about it.
This post is about error handling, missing traces, PHP limitations and strategies against it.
Also it is about Drupal and finally how to push quality assurance within Drupal to the top.

When working with external services, maybe even combining multiple external services together, it is important to have a detailed log that allows to reproduce what exactly happened when something doesn't work as expected. It is often not possible to reproduce the same situation later on when debugging, so all the relevant data that was available by the time the event happened needs to be logged.

We've seen this need in various client projects and created the Past project to provide a framework to help with that process, from creating log messages during development and production phases and viewing them afterwards.

Create a ContentPane with all information from the author of the current node. This Tutorial uses views and panels.

Create a ContentPane with all information from the author of the current node. This Tutorial uses views and panels.

Already in Denver there where a lot of great discussions about the future of the Entity system in Drupal and what the directions are. Now, in Barcelona, things settled down a bit and the Entity API team is about to push the new architecture into core in a first iteration.In this document i’ll investigate the expected resulting architecture, compare it to the current Drupal 7 core + contrib needs and evaluate further ways to go to either make core support the needed things or allow contrib to add support for it without too much pain.