Chris Pitchford: Building Great Websites Since 1994

Passing the PHP5 Exam

Posted Wed, 10/21/2009 - 13:14 by Chris Pitchford

I'm a Zend Certified Engineer now that I passed the PHP5 exam.

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Ch- ch- ch- changes!

Posted Thu, 02/24/2011 - 10:47 by Chris Pitchford

Drupal.org is moving to git for its repository today. I'm used to Subversion, so using a new version control system takes some getting used to.

Using Subversion, I would type:

svn st -u

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First the White House, now the People's House

Posted Sat, 01/22/2011 - 09:43 by Chris Pitchford

I wrote a while back about the White House transitioning to Drupal. So, I should add that the US House of Representatives (sometimes called the "People's House") is also transitioning to Drupal.

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New Drupal 7 update from your host

Posted Thu, 01/20/2011 - 13:05 by Chris Pitchford

I uploaded a patch to the Spambot module that updates it to Drupal 7.

Most of the changes were required to meet the new DB schema syntax requirements, but a big one was a re-factor of the function name from user_delete to user_cancel...

Yeah, that'll slow you down if you're trying to remove those automated spam accounts! So, once I modified the code, I created a 'diff' file that automates the process of changing the old module into the new one.

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There's a new game in town

Posted Wed, 01/19/2011 - 17:10 by Chris Pitchford

HTML 5 has a logo. And a posse, from what I can see. But posse is so 2005....

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White House Uses Drupal

Posted Sun, 10/25/2009 - 09:27 by Chris Pitchford

I knew it would happen -- as the Obama campaign successfully used Drupal. But it's official now: http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/whitehousegov-goes-drupal!

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For fifteen years, I have worked the web using the best available technology.

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Exciting Events About to Unfold

Posted Mon, 08/17/2009 - 06:22 by Chris Pitchford

Of course, if you don't already have your ticket, DrupalCon is closed to you (it's already sold out). But there are other events like the Zend PHP and O'Reilly MySQL conferences on their way!