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Working with Subversion on OS X behind a Proxy

To connect to external SVN servers behind an HTTP proxy, you have to configure subversion to connect over the proxy. This can be done using the servers file in the .subversion folder in your home folder (~/.subversion/servers).

February 23, 2010OS X, Subversion

Overriding theme_blocks when using Block Translation module (i18n)

I just pulled my hair out looking for what caused this, but eventually found it after scanning the module files. The issue was that overriding hook_theme_blocks wasn't possible in some theme. The version in the theme wouldn't get called at all, even after rebuilding the theme registry by clearing the cache. The culprit was the Block Translation module.

February 18, 2010Drupal, i18n, theming

Installing Apache Solr in Tomcat for Drupal on Snow Leopard

There's quite a few information available on how to install Apache Solr for your Drupal website. One of the best places to start is the Apache Solr Search Integration module documentation page. In this post I will gather all the bits and pieces for installing Solr in Tomcat on one specific platform: Snow Leopard. This is the platform I'm developing Drupal sites on and the great thing is it has all the needed Java stuff built in, so it's quite easy to install Solr and Tomcat. This method might work on some other systems too having Java 1.6 (with mostly some minor adjustments) but I've not tested this.

February 15, 2010Apache Solr, Drupal, OS X, search, Tomcat

Book review (from a Drupal point of view) : Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server

Apache Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search ServerSearch is ubiquitious. It's available on all sites, desktop applications, ... A good search engine is something essential for letting your users get what they want. There's a lot of factors that define what a makes a good search engine: speed, accuracy of the results, ...

Drupal has already a plethora of solutions these problems. There is a search module in core. We also have integration with Google Search Appliance, Custom search, Lucene, ... But most recently Apache Solr is hotter than hot and seems to become the standard replacement for Drupal's core search solution. Even more now since Acquia uses it as the core of one of its flag products, Acquia Search.

Panic Coda Drupal snippets (clips)

I've been using Panic's Coda as my default editor/IDE for some time now. I've already shared the Drupal plugin I wrote on this blog. But one of the other tricks Coda allows me to do is snippet management using its Clips feature. There's quite a few Coda clips available on the net. Here I am sharing the Clips I use the most during Drupal development and theming.

February 04, 2010Coda, Drupal, snippets

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