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Drupal! Drupal!

Posted by Kelvin on 29 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Drupal Kamikaze

Embarking on a journey to learn Drupal.
Will post more about this in the coming days/weeks/months.

Drupal Basics

Posted by Kelvin on 29 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Drupal Kamikaze

Good at coding, but new to Drupal? Follow this series of posts documenting my journey into the world of Drupal.
Why Drupal?
I compared Drupal with Joomla. Consensus on the net is that Joomla is more slick and polished, but Drupal is way more flexible and performant. Lots of big visible sites running on Drupal.
Getting into [...]

Pro Drupal Development = godsend

Posted by Kelvin on 29 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Drupal Kamikaze

Having installed a bunch of modules, read abit of the API, I tried to find out more about developing with Drupal, but hit abit of a roadblock.
Until I stumbled on.. Pro Drupal Development by John VanDyk & Matt Westgate. You really want the 2nd edition coz it covers Drupal 6.
The book was nothing short [...]

Random Drupal Tidbits [Dec 29th]

Posted by Kelvin on 29 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Drupal Kamikaze

- using the Content Permissions module, you can create “hidden” fields, or admin-only fields.
- you can make the body field go away for a custom content type by going to Content Type -> Edit -> Submission form settings, and clearing out the body textfield label. You can also change the label for the title [...]

07/04/09 | Kelvin Tan | Lucene Solr Nutch Consultant