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Installing Mecurial on a Shared Server Host

In my previous blog entry, http://fountain-city.com/blog/how-deploy-code-your-shared-host-while-sti..., I went over different version control tools. But since then I found out that I can actually install mercurial on a shared host via python scripts.

Now that python makes it possible to have mercurial on my shared host, there is really no reason to use GitHub or SVN anymore for my code development.

Git to update to the latest version of my Drupal files, Mercurial to update my website to the latest development release.

How to deploy code to your shared host while still using code-revision control tools

So after playing around with different services, I've settled on a choice for managing my code repositories. Basically I do a lot of development on different systems. Not all of my clients can afford to be hosted on a server that has GIT, SVN or HG (mercurial) installed.

What I've managed to put together now is a system that gives me the benefits of being able to track my code in a version-control / revision process; but still be able to push code-changes to production [the shared host] on the fly w/o worrying about changes done locally or to the remote website.

Site launch: Go Ductless Heating

Website launched. Primarily function for us was the Theming, ie the conversion of the Design files into HTML and CSS3 files followed by Drupal Theming: PHP coding for various functionalities. Managed in Mercurial, Development by http://mixologic.com. Visit http://www.goingductless.com/ to see the results and to inquire about ductless heating systems.

Exporting WYSIWYG Features in Drupal 7

There isn't much information on it, but as of this time of posting, exporting WYSIWYG in Drupal 7 is not straight forward.

The D6 process is described here:
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/wysiwyg-feature

To adapt it to D7 as of version:

wysiwyg 7.x-2.1

You need to do the following:

1. Install WYSIWYG
(also set up your prefered editor with buttons etc.)
2. Install CTOOLS
3. Install Entity
4. Install Strong Arm
5. Apply an export-enabled patch:
https://drupal.org/files/issues/wysiwyg-entity-exportables-624018-208.patch
to your D7.x WYSIWYG admin.inc file

Personal website chedal updated and launched

New redesign of my Chedal.org website completed. Data migrated from Joomla and Blogspot and Drupal into one consolidated new theme. Utilized Drupal.org's public theme: Corolla with some design modifications.

Website has some AJAX in the back-end to allow quick adding of albums from Discogs. Galleries hosted on Picasa.

New website launched for Panoptic media

New luxury AJAX and jquery schnazzy website launched for Panoptic Media. This website fully designed by us, and partially developed in collaboration with Web Geeks who did an awesome job on the AJAX and Video player components.

FCKEDITOR: how to disable right click context menu?

Looking through the internet, there is a hidden feature in FCKEDITOR, most of you probably know how to enable the spell checker, but few know how to turn off the right-click context menu.

New site: Verification Academy

Hello world, so we have a new site launched: Verification Academy
this site was co-developed with OMBU Web
This has been a long ongoing project and most of the site will be, unfortunately, hidden behind authorized doors. If you do happen to be a company that has need for software that can help you to control the quality of your hardware devices, then this might be the perfect website for you.

Handy Drupal links for beginners who want to understand the framework, part one

Drupal documentation is the kind of word that brings up aweful feelings, and I have often wondered why this is. Even good books like Drupal Pro Development seem to skip over much of the really important stuff, which is knowing what all your functions are that you can use, how to find the information you need to make changes, and how Drupal's "signal path" works when it accesses a page or render an element.
 

Easy XHProf local installation using QuickStart

So it turns out that if you wanted to set up XHProf locally, that you would need to do a lot of steps to get it set up; at least on your Mac and I think on Windows as well.
 
Since my server is running Unix, spending a lot of time to do this didn't make a lot of sense. Just grabbing xTools can take a while cause the download is over 3GBs!