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Easy local stack management with Vagrant
I’m using Vagrant to hand-off complete copies of my local development environment to other members of my team. This is a great way to lower setup time, isolate dependencies and eliminate inconsistencies. Frontend developers are able to work against a full local environment without wasting time on backend configuration. The following describes how Vagrant can make this possible without any additional provisioning tools. Those tools are powerful and offer even more efficiencies, but we’re leaving them out in the interest of simplicity.
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A clean, lightweight, pure JS alternative for anchoring file fields to Drupal WYSIWYGs
jquery.modalize.js is a lightweight, pure-javascript approach to automatically turn part of any web page into a modal overlay.
I originally wrote it as a simple alternative for associating file upload fields to WYSIWYGs in Drupal, but can be used to modalize any chunk of HTML and significantly clean up overloaded pages (Drupal or non-Drupal).
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Single Page Interface with Drupal
We recently built a community app in Drupal. It has:
- a fully abstracted (no Drupal), single page (no reloads) frontend
- a web service enabled Drupal backend
- an integrated Drupal overlay for edit and admin pages
Here’s how we did it:
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Feed Enlarger (Full Text RSS Feed Generator)
Regain control of your feeds and get the full text of every article, blog post and story.
- fast
- free
- full text of truncated feeds
- works with your reader
- can strop out links from original feed
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Strict 404 handling for Drupal sites
By default, a Drupal site allows undefined arguments on any system path instead of returning 404 Not Found (e.g. http://drupal.org/node/1/asdlfkjadlfkdjaflakjsldkfa). I created the Strict 404 module to override this behavior and enforce 404 responses for paths that are not actually defined in the menu system.
Some contrib modules rely on the undefined argument behavior (e.g. for admin pages) so you may want to enable Strict 404 only for certain path patterns (usually vistor-facing pages). The module provides an admin page for selectively enabling Strict 404 responses.
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Kansas City’s Boulevard and Roasterie brew up a coffee ale
Two Kansas City companies - Boulevard Brewing Co. and The Roasterie – have teamed up on a new beer, Coffee Ale, which will be on store shelves in early March. The businesses – neighbors on the city’s west side - began testing samples in late September and the final limited-edition beer was put in kegs and in 750 ml bottles in late January.
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Eat Broccoli with Mustard to Boost the Nutritional Value of Both (and Other Strange, Healthy Food Pairings)
Real nutrition is a complicated, individual science, and there’s no magic bullet, but some foods do complement each other in odd ways that can help you get the most nutritional benefit from both. The trick is figuring out how to get both of them in your diet at the same time. Broccoli, for example, is great for you, but cooking it can inhibit your body’s ability to absorb some of its benefits. Add a dollop of mustard, which contains the enzyme you need (and that cooking destroyed) to maximize its health benefits.
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Celery man
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