Ivan Zugec - Drupal Consultant

CrossFunctional, DDU2012 announce scholarship program

ivan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:08:56 +0000

CrossFunctional, DDU2012 announce scholarship program

Thursday, 15 December, 2011 - 10:08

Drupal Downunder have announced a scholarship program for the 2012 conference, sponsored by CrossFunctional.

This program has been created in an effort to promote learning in the Drupal community and extend its reach.

Successful applicants will receive a ticket to the conference, which includes access to all events, including the pre-conference drinks and nibbles, plus a conference t-shirt. In addition, successful applicants will have the chance to pick the brains of CrossFunctional's experienced Drupal team in a special informal session.

CrossFunctional and Drupal Downunder are seeking applicants across all levels of expertise, from Drupal newbies who are interested in learning, to seasoned programmers who otherwise wouldn't be able to attend the conference.

Apply online here to be considered for a scholarship. The application deadline is Tuesday 27 December 2011 and the winners will be announced by 2 January 2012. Applications will be evaluated on merit and need for financial aid.

http://crossfunctional.net/ddu-2012-scholarships

Custom grid panels layout with Omega theme

ivan — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:03:38 +0000

Custom grid panels layout with Omega theme

Friday, 2 December, 2011 - 18:03

For a lot of my recent projects I have used the Omega theme as the base theme, I love the whole responsive design support and grid system. But when you create a Panels page and choose a layout you don’t get the same grid support as you do with Omega.

Panels outputs its own grid system, where as Omega has an easy to follow grid framework. Check out the Containers and Grids (Omega 2.x documentation) page to understand how to create grid layouts.

In this article I’ll show you how to create a grid layout as a custom panels layout. We'll then apply this layout to the node_view (/node/%node) page.

UPDATE: Omega does offer integration for panels.

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Drupal 7.x

Display suite part 2: View modes and fields

ivan — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:40:20 +0000

Display suite part 2: View modes and fields

Thursday, 22 September, 2011 - 20:40

This post is part of a Display suite series, Display suite part 1: Layouts and Styles and Display suite part 2: View modes and fields.

In part 2 of this Display suite series, I'll show you how to create custom view modes and how to expose blocks as a field.
Also don't forget to check out the Display Suite for Drupal 7 playlist on youtube.

Custom views modes

In Drupal 7 entity view modes have become a lot more powerful. With Display suite you are able to create custom view modes for any node or comment, without writing any code.

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Drupal 7.x

Display suite part 1: Layouts and Styles

ivan — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:39:32 +0000

Display suite part 1: Layouts and Styles

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Sunday, 11 September, 2011 - 17:39

The Display suite is a powerful module which allows you to customise the node view page without writing any code. You can apply custom layouts as well as custom fields without a module. Configuration of this module is fully exportable with features.

In this post I'll show you how to get started and how to create a layout. In part 2 (coming soon), I'll show you how to create custom view modes and how to expose blocks as fields. Also don't forget to check out the Take Full Control of Your Site Layout with Display Suite for Drupal 7 video from DrupalCon London.

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Drupal 7.x

Create a slideshow using the Field Slideshow module

ivan — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:01:31 +0000

Create a slideshow using the Field Slideshow module

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Friday, 1 July, 2011 - 16:01

The Field Slideshow makes it easy to create a slideshow from just an image field.

With Fields in core for Drupal 7 we also got a more powerful display formatters for fields.
Fields now ship with their own formatter settings forms and make it really easy to change the display of a field, and Field Slideshow really make use of this.

For more details check out the Field Slideshow project page.

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Drupal 7.x

How to use GeoIP & Context GeoIP module

ivan — Wed, 25 May 2011 11:38:37 +0000

How to use GeoIP & Context GeoIP module

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Wednesday, 25 May, 2011 - 21:38

Using the GeoIP module with Context GeoIP module, it makes it really easy to create a context which has a specific condition to only display a block if your IP location is from a particular country.

Furthermore GeoIP has a powerful API to pull out location information.

In this article I’ll show you how to setup GeoIP and Context GeoIP module.

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Drupal 6.x

How to setup Search API with Apache Solr

ivan — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:06:03 +0000

How to setup Search API with Apache Solr

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Friday, 29 April, 2011 - 15:06

The Search API is a Drupal 7 search framework module. It allows you to create custom search pages on any URL and integrates with a few search backends.

In this article I’ll show you how to setup Search API with Apache Solr on a mac (10.6).

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Drupal 7.x

Use TurnKey Linux with VirtualBox 4 on mac

ivan — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:19:32 +0000

Use TurnKey Linux with VirtualBox 4 on mac

Tuesday, 12 April, 2011 - 09:19

I remember reading on some post online about developers using virtual environments as a development server. On my mac I use MAMP for development. But using a virtual environment allows you to create all sorts of servers (LAMP, Apache Solr, Varnish).

Over the weekend I spent some time looking at setting up my own virtual environment for development and found the TurnKey Linux site.

In this post I'll demonstrate how to setup the LAMP Stack Appliance with VirtualBox 4.

Backup to a remote FTP using the Backup and Migrate module

ivan — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:09:58 +0000

Backup to a remote FTP using the Backup and Migrate module

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Wednesday, 30 March, 2011 - 17:09

The backup and migrate module is an awesome module that you can use to create a MySQL dump file. You can use it to schedule database backups to the server filesystem, remote FTP server or even an amazon s3 bucket.

In this post I'll demonstrate how to setup a scheduled backup to a remote FTP server.

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Drupal 7.x

How to use the Syntax Highlighter module in Drupal 7

ivan — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:19:58 +0000

How to use the Syntax Highlighter module in Drupal 7

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Monday, 21 March, 2011 - 19:19

When I upgraded zugec.com to Drupal 7 I had to find another syntax highlighter because the previous one that I used in Drupal 6 was GeSHi but this module hadn't been upgraded to Drupal 7 at the time. I searched around and found Syntax Highlighter module which uses the SyntaxHighlighter library.

In this post I'll demonstrate how to setup and use SyntaxHighlighter in a Drupal 7 site.

UPDATE: Setup GeSHi on Drupal 7

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Drupal 7.x