Pimp your site with a NWDUG Banner

Posted by matason on Sunday, 18 July, 2010 - 12:15

Being the *awesome* graphic designer that I am, ahem, I've put together these banners to help promote the North West Drupal user group that meets once a month in Manchester.

http://webgoodness.co.uk/sites/webgoodness.co.uk/files/nwdug-blue-200.jpg

Langdale/Ambleside Mountain Rescue DRUPALTHON!!!

Posted by matason on Wednesday, 20 January, 2010 - 18:48

The team working away into the wee small hours.

CCK Allowed Values List, PHP code and hook_content_allowed_values_alter()

Posted by matason on Saturday, 2 January, 2010 - 10:31

Wooo, catchy blog post title eh?

It's good to keep PHP code out of your Drupal database right?

The flexibility afforded by adding PHP code to things like your "Allowed values list" for a CCK field is absolutely fantastic on one hand but niggles me on the other because the code ends up in the database and won't be version controlled.

Drupal Maintenance Slides

Posted by matason on Saturday, 19 December, 2009 - 20:42

Drupal Maintenance Drupal6 to Drupal7 Upgrade Slides

Last month I gave a short talk at the Drupal Maintenance event in London, here are my slides.

See the slides from the other presentations here - http://www.drupal.org.uk/news/drupal-maintenance-presentations

How to checkout Drupal from CVS, test, make and submit patches

Posted by matason on Tuesday, 17 November, 2009 - 21:58

Concurrent Versions System or CVS for short has been and is currently the version control system of choice for both Drupal core and also for contributed Drupal modules. For discussion on the future of version control for the Drupal project see http://drupal.org/node/289117 - Why is Drupal still using CVS and how can I help change that?

Location module - show full County name rather than County code

Posted by matason on Friday, 6 November, 2009 - 22:34

This is one of those easy fixes for something that can take time to figure out if you don't know where to look, I hope it's useful to someone!

The Location module allows real-world geographic locations to be associated with Drupal nodes, including people, places, and other content.

Clearing down test orders in Ubercart

Posted by matason on Friday, 23 October, 2009 - 22:10

Setting up and testing a Drupal 6 + Ubercart site with a payment service provider can result in a lot of test orders on the system so here's a quick procedure for clearing them down before handing the site over to the client.

Use at your own risk and ensure you have a back up of your database before you start!

Back up your database.
No really, back up your database, if you make a mistake here your data is gone bye-bye!

Okay, now we can begin.

London DrupalCon Europe 2011 Proposal

Posted by matason on Thursday, 1 October, 2009 - 08:01

There's been a huge effort from the UK Drupal community these last few days in putting together a proposal for the 2011 to take place in London. We finally posted it last night for all to see - http://groups.drupal.org/node/28098

Our main competition it seems is from mortendk who has a proposal in from the Danes - http://drupalcon.dk/cph/node/35

Should be interesting to see we progress and of course win! :)

Using Simpletest with Drupal 6

Posted by matason on Wednesday, 30 September, 2009 - 12:16

I started using SimpleTest today so I thought I'd document the process as I went along for personal reference as much as anything else.

Why use SimpleTest?

For me the reasons were pretty straightforward:

DrupalCamp UK Registration Opens

Posted by matason on Wednesday, 20 May, 2009 - 19:08

Yes indeed, registration for DrupalCamp UK is now open, get your tickets for the two day event at http://drupalcampuk.eventbrite.com/

The UK's first DrupalCamp is being held at the BBC on Oxford Road, Manchester on Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th June 2009 and with just over a hundred places available it's sure to sell out fast!