Here I share my thoughts, ideas, and random things I find online or off the streets. For work, I am new media senior analyst / engineer at Al Jazeera Network. I get to do a lot of cool stuff, from devising online solutions for the news rooms to managing few projects here and there.
And while I am off work, I play with social sites APIs (i.e. Google, twitter, etc) and recently working on #1 Arab news social interactive site called aljazeeratalk.net.
When I am offline, I play tennis, read books, drinking different types of tea, and of course photography.
This is a promising framework, which will allow you to easily install multiple instances on the fly and manage them with a click. Managing includes, upgrading modules and sites settings.
This is a must try.
Didn't know that there was version 1 & 2. But anyway, this is a total plus like what I've mentioned in my earlier post.
This video should explain to you on how to use managing news for your own purposes... enjoy!
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Currently, I am working on a large scale project based on Drupal framework for the first time. And as much as I thought I've mastered working with drupal, I find myself with more challenges.
This time, the challenge was Views. Unfortunatelly, Views does not offer the flexibility to amend changes to its SQL queries which can be devastating sometimes. One of my tasks was to display a list of users who have recently published in a certain category, and the list of users needs to be unique.
With that, I found the best way is to utilize THEME_views_pre_execute(&$views) function, which allows me to manipulate with the SQL query to my own liking in my custom module, which worked wonderfully.
And here is another script that you can put in your block that will fetch result from the database, here it is:
$sql = ""; $output = ''; $nlimit = 5; $result = db_query_range(db_rewrite_sql($sql), $uid, 0, $nlimit); $output .= '<div class="item-list"><ul>' . "\n"; $output .= node_title_list($result); $output .= '</ul></div>'; print $output;
Anyway, I am merely posting this as a future reference for myself.
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Working on several projects with limited budget, it had made me think twice of how & where I should deploy those projects.
I've tried Rackspace cloud, used to be Mosso, both Sites & Server packages but nor of them offered the complete package I am looking for. Example, the server package seemed to be unstable and also it did not offer CDN service which I needed. As for Sites package, it did not offer SSH access, which totally killed it for me. On top of all that, Rackspace cloud support was total disappointing and not mere close to the actual Rackspace managed hosting support.So that's when my journey of looking at deploying Drupal on Amazon infrastructure has started. Thanks to this presentation that explains the benefits of cloud deployment:
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