Nick, Social, Geek

Monday.. That day when you feel you have an empty spot somewhere that cannot be completed. You feel there is something missing! That missing thing is Drupalcamp Spain. Since Friday until Sunday afternoon the days were packed with Drupal Drupal Drupal!Read more

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• ateneatech
• drupal
• drupalcamp
• drupalcampspain
• planetdrupal

The time has finally arrived for my two favorite things to join together. Starting from Friday the 26th, Drupalcamp Spain will have its lift-off and looking at the schedule it looks to be a promising weekend packed with lots of goodies and lots of new knowledge!

I will also give a Apache Solr presentation myself and it will feature a basic explanation on how to set it up, why to set it up and the future of these technologies. Practical use cases will follow and some examples as well.Read more

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• drupal
• planetdrupal

After a silent period here on the blog (and also after a lot of work..) I decided to transform my simple blue blog to something more extended.

From now on you can find information about me but also alot of albums that are linked directly to my picasa storage space.

This neat little module from drupal is called Brilliant Gallery. This module is a bit tricky to set up but once you have the workflow going, it becomes really easy!

Enjoy the new site. Leave some comment if you like it!

• barcelona
• drupal
• website

I finally took the time to see how CVS and drupal work together and it's not that hard actually.. It's just a very high barrier! Actually I hope to see something more user friendly in the future, I agree it's alot of work to transfer everything from cvs to bzr or something totally different (Github, SVN, *your version tool here*)Read more

• drupal
• planetdrupal

I guess it was time to contribute back to the drupal community.
Soon me and ateneatech will contribute some modules that we created for a client but as of now I'm an individual member of the drupal association!

What does this mean for me? You might ask, does this benefit you somehow? Well.. Not more then anyone else.. The main attraction, the software, is already free! If you want to thank them, please do it in this way!Read more

• drupal

Ever tried to log all your email?
People come up with the craziest ideas to log email but luckely in drupal there is a nice way to log your emails to a file in your system.

I'm currently using it only for debugging but here it goes!

ps: Don't forget to replace your_module_name with, well yeah, your module name!
Requirement : Devel module
Location of log file : /tmp/drupal_debug.txt

/**
* Implementation of hook_mail_alter().
*
* @param $message A structured array containing the message to be altered. keys in this array include: id, to, subject, body, from, headers
*/
function your_module_name_mail_alter(&$message) {

dd($message);
}
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• planetdrupal

If you are developing ubercart / drupal then you need to test your creditcard checkout system. There is no better way then to do it with those 2 numbers :

Visa: 4544182174537267
Master Card: 5460506048039935

ATTENTION : These credit card numbers are not real! Looking for the security code? Just type in 3 random numbers and make sure the expiration date is greater then the current day

Thanks to The blog of benjisimon

• drupal
• planetdrupal
• ubercart

Wow. Amazing news, probably even better for the people that want to sell their drupal services to the rest of the world (which I 100% support!). The whitehouse.gov went Drupal

The Obama goverment made their promise (at least a little bit now) to have a more transparent goverment. As I read somewhere.. More transparent then publishing your website's code is a hard challenge!

This is not the first Drupal website for the american goverment and I hope that more goverments, NGO's, companies, people will follow this example.
For me, this news is really exciting because it means that Drupal is somehow accepted as an adult in the CMS/CMF world competing with the bigger (even closed) brothers.

Keep going people! I think this is a good sign ;-)Read more

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• obama

This weekend (19 september) there is a Software Freedom Day català here in Barcelona.
There is a session lead by Robert Garrigos (One of the leads of the Drupalcon Barcelona) himself but also Openoffice and Mozilla are represented there. I think it'll be cool!

It's in Catalan but nevertheless I'm going to check out how Drupal is represented there. Maybe I'll take some translators with me?
If someone wants to join me here?

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• planetdrupal