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Configuring a mobile Drupal site and making your theme mobile friendly

In this tutorial I'll explain how to setup your Drupal site to be mobile friendly.

Setting up a passwordless automated rsync backup

Rsync is a great command line program for copying and sync'ing data. It can use standard SSH protocol (default port 22) to copy files from computer to computer, or locally from one path to another.

Converting a site that uses sites/default/files to a site-specific configuration per Drupal multi-site installations

In this article, I'll explain how I converted my site from using sites/default/files to a specific sites folder, IE: sites/ericlondon.com/files.

Getting more control over your cron hooks and executing cron hooks on the shell as separate crontabs

In certain situations you need more control of your cron tasks, execution times, and methods.

Programmatically generate all images for each imagecache preset using a Drush PHP script

My Drupal photo gallery implements a total of 9 imagecache presets, but due to a PHP memory_limit cap of 90MB in my previous hosting contract,

Creating a custom Lucene Search facet from taxonomy and integrating into the search form block

In this tutorial I'll show how you to create a custom Lucene Search facet from taxonomy and integrate into the search form block.

Deploying a site with language translation hostnames and resolving hard coded hostname database records

Sometimes there's no escaping hard coded hostnames being stored in your Drupal database.

Embedding a GMAP view into search results

In this article, I'll explain one way to embed a GMAP view into your search results.

I downloaded and installed the following modules:


content (cck)
location_cck

Implementing a Subversion pre-commit hook to integrate with Drupal

In this article, I'll show an example of how to implement a Subversion pre-commit hook to integrate with Drupal.

Creating a Centos server installation for Apache, MySQL, Tomcat, PHP, Drupal, and Solr

In this article, I'll show the commands I have been using to set up a fresh Centos server, configured for Apache, MySQL, PHP, Tomcat, Drupal, and Apache Solr.