Planet Drupal

I just pushed out the initial commit of the 2.0 version of the Netbeans Drupal Development Tool (NDDT). This marks the start of Drush integration into the tool. This is a very early release and currently Drush support only works on Windows. I will have Linux and Mac support built in within the next week. UPDATE: I just pushed out a new commit with Linux and Mac support.

Last week I released the 1.5 version of the Netbeans tool, which saw some major changes. You can read about the new features and catch a screencast of it here. Today I am releasing a minor version upgrade, 1.5.1. There are no new features in this, but it does remove the PhpModule dependency from the module, which means it will now work on Netbeans 7.0+ and shouldn't break on every new build of Netbeans, unless they make a major API change.

I just pushed out the final on version 1.5 of the Netbeans Drupal Devel Tool to github. This new version requires Netbeans 7.1-beta or greater to run, due to editor and PHPModule dependencies. Once 7.1-final is released, I will push the new version into the master branch. You can grab the new version here. I've also got the nbm file attached down below.

This version marks a lot of changes in the UI and more customization options. Instead of going through them all, I decided to put a screencast together:

After a couple of years of recompiling the old Drupal module for Netbeans, I finally decided to take some time and make a new module. I wasn’t the author of the original module and it hasn’t been maintained in years. On top of that the module only works for Drupal 6 and I wanted something for Drupal 7.

This marks the first release in the HollyIT D7 Module Project. As I work through updating Crooks and Liars to Drupal 7, I plan on releasing a large series of modules we use on the site. This series of modules will be a joint effort between HollyIT and Crooks and Liars.

While working on a project for a client that was a perfect fit for the file_entity module, I came across an issue I didn't care for. Implementing hook_file_presave, the file_entity module assigns the file type based upon the first part of the mime type. This is a good thing technically, but my client's needs had to trump that. Instead they wanted two file types; image and files.

Drupal is about impossible to learn and configure!!!!

How many times do we hear that? It is by far the most common complaint that plagues Drupal.

Take a common task like creating a simple blog. If you go the Wordpress route, you simply upload it to your server and fill out a couple of quick input boxes. Next thing you know you are writing your first post with such ease that Grandma can do it.