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Submitted by timhilliard
on Sun, 12/25/2011 - 06:32

I had been trying to contribute back to Drupal with some of my modules recently, however I was applying for the ability to create new modules at the time when this was difficult to do. Thankfully a friend of mine who also happened to be the maintainer of the Front Page module asked if I would be interested in taking on co-maintainership and porting the module to Drupal 7. I jumped at the opportunity and this allowed me to start my contributions back to Drupal. I quickly ported the Drupal 6 version of the Front Page module to Drupal 7 and started on the 2.x version of the module.

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Drupal

Migrating to Git

Submitted by timhilliard
on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 16:18

Coinciding with The Great Git Migration that occurred on drupal.org recently, Zone also took the plunge and moved to Git. This was mostly painless as most of our projects weren't residing in a versioning control system. However a while back I introduced Zone to Subversion which we started using for all or our PHP projects. Luckily for me when it came time to migrate these projects to git the process was very easy. As Git comes with a built in subversion converter all I had to do was import the project using this and it allowed us to retain all of our commit history.

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Power to the people

Submitted by timhilliard
on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 14:22

So having been in the web caper for a little while now I thought it was time to discuss my experiences of open source. Probably my most profound experience in the open source arena came about when I was asked to do a project in Drupal, a highly configurable and customisable CMS package. After a little experimentation I was soon able to harness the true potential of Drupal and now use Drupal for all of my standard CMS installations. With a user base of over 400 000 users, Drupal has become a powerhouse in the world of content managed systems.

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Drupal

Consider using a managed DNS

Submitted by timhilliard
on Mon, 02/16/2009 - 16:33

Ok so this may seem trivial to some but in my opinion worth doing. Consider Moving your domain to a dedicated DNS hosting solution such as DNS Made Easy. Not only do these dedicated DNS hosts offer better domain resolution times than most ordinary DNS' bundled with normal hosting solutions, but they also give you excellent domain control such as simple sub-domain management and the easy ability to point to multiple servers on the same domain. The last and probably most important benifit is scalability.

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Embedding Flash into webpages

Submitted by timhilliard
on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 00:14

Alright guys, I know this has been a thorn in your side at least once in your life if you work a little bit with flash, I know it has for me at least. The stucture required for a correctly formatted set of embedding tags seems a bit weird, not to mention not really W3C legal either and is frustrating knowing that you will have to write all of your variables in twice.

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