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Tag it Up!
Article by Jerad Bitner07.26.2010Managing the code on your servers is a very important part of the release process. Over the years we've tried many different ways and have found the below process as a tried and true starting point, but here we'll focus on revision control (Subversion or Git) and the use of tags in each for any given project. Since many of our clients are large traffic websites and need multiple web heads, we also have some standard practices and scripts that we like to use on our projects to help keep the web h... -

Assembling Pages with Drupal
Article by David Burns07.17.2010As with many facets of Drupal, and coding in general, there are multiple ways to accomplish the same task. A good exmple of this was with the recent additions to the Lullabot team. The expanded team brought together three skilled developers and an amazing designer each with their own methods of site building. On one side we have Jerad Bitner and myself, who for the past few years have been building sites exclusively...
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FAPI/CCK Confusion: 'value' vs '#value'
Article by Karen Stevenson07.12.2010Angie Byron wrote a nice article on Drupal.org that explains something about how to form_alter CCK fields. At the very end it says:
No, you didn't read that wrong. Sometimes you need to set both ['value']['#value'] and ['#value']['value']. And other times you need to change the field value in $form_state['values']. It seems to be that one controls the value displayed on...
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DC Workshops Sold Out. Portland Discounts End Friday!
Blog by Jared Ponchot07.07.2010That's right, our upcoming Drupal Module Development Deep Dive workshops week in Washington, DC is now officially sold out. Congratulations to those of you who were fortunate enough to register in time. To those who didn't register, better luck next time (insert sad trombone sound here).
But wait! Speaking of next time, we...
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Last day for 25% off all Drupal & jQuery videos
Blog by Jeff Robbins07.05.2010If you're not on our mailing list or following us on Twitter, you might have missed the Independence Day weekend sale going on in our store. Today (Monday) is the last day to get 25% off all Lullabot Drupal and jQuery tutorial DVDs and high-definition video downloads.
Spend some time this summer turning yourself into...
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New features in Drush 3
Article by James Sansbury06.30.2010So… Drush. Are you using it yet? If not get drushing!—or whatever you call it. If you're not familiar with it, Drush is a command line interface for Drupal sites. It's the bees knees, if you ask me. You can use it to enable/disable modules, run update.php, get a SQL dump of your site, and all sorts of other magically delicious things.
The problem is, it just keeps getting better. I almost can't keep up with it! The recent release of Drush 3... -

WYSIWYG as a Feature
Article by Karen Stevenson06.28.2010One of the things Drupal core does not do well at all is provide an easy way to switch on a WYSIWYG editor. There is no editor out of the box and setting it up requires some custom configuration of several Drupal core settings, installing and configuring several contributed modules, and also installing one or more external libraries, like the TinyMCE library. The Lullabot book, Using Drupal (O'Reilly), devotes a whole s...
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Drupal.org's migration to Git update
Blog by Jerad Bitner06.14.2010Sam Boyer (sdboyer) has been a long time inspiration to and awesome resource for me when it comes to Git. It's really no wonder that he was chosen as the Git Migration Lead by the Drupal Association.
Here are some of his plans and where you can help participate:
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Video: Angie Byron & Jeff Robbins on TWiT
Blog by Jeff Robbins06.07.2010Last month Angie and I drove up to Petaluma, CA and did an interview with Leo Laporte at the TWiT Cottage. We talked about DrupalCon, the upcoming release of Drupal 7, and did a general check in with Leo about Drupal. We forgot to post this here on Lullabot.com right after it was posted, so in case you missed it, here's the video of the interview!
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DC Deep Dive Development Week: Early Bird Discount Ends Next Week
Blog by Jeff Robbins06.04.2010Just a reminder that the early-bird pricing for July's Deep Dive Development Week in Washington, DC ends next Friday, June 11th. If you'd like to become a Drupal development genius and you'd like to save some money, be sure to sign up soon. Seats are limited and they're going fast.
Here's the synopsis:
The week of July 12th, Lullabot will be offering two back-...
