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Multi-site Drupal installations

timmillwood — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:34:06 +0000

One of the great things about Drupal is that you can run more that one site off one installation. This saves disk space and load on your server, it also saves maintenance time. With only one installation to manage and update the time spent administering your site drops greatly.

So, how do you setup a multi-site? well, it’s very easy.

Firstly install Drupal as you would normally. Download it into your web root, copy the settings.php file, add a files directory, setup a database. etc. The domain name for this site for example would be http://www.example.com.

What is Drupal?

timmillwood — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:28:11 +0000

It seems all the post on my blog are about Drupal. It has become a big passion and interest of mine. I thought now was the time to take a step back from the hardcore code of Drupal and explain to some readers what Drupal is.

Drupal was first released in 2001 by Dries Buytaert. Although it was started short time before this as an internal message board between dorm rooms at Buytaert’s university. The name Drupal comes from an English rendering of the Dutch word “druppel”, which means “drop”, hence the logo.

Drupalcon UK 2011 proposal

timmillwood — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:37:24 +0000

Last week the Drupal UK community came together to write a proposal to hold Drupalcon in the UK for 2011.

Creating simple Adobe Air App

timmillwood — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:52:17 +0000

When I started work for Mark Boulton Design a few months back one of my first projects was an Adobe Air app. The client wanted an app for internal use which would post and display data.

I had never written an Adobe Air app before, but as a web developer it’s the obvious choice. Adobe Air apps can be written in three different ways, Javascript, Flex or Flash. I hate flash, don’t know and Flex to thought I would give the Javascript option a go.

My new blog

timmillwood — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:25:05 +0000

As you can see my blog looks a little different than normal. In fact it's very different than normal.

My old blog was running an out dated version of Drupal with many out dated modules. It also had a dodgy database where I had enabled and disabled modules without uninstalling them properly. This was causing 5 or 6 PHP errors on every page load. So I set to correct this and transfered all my blog posts to a new installation of Drupal using FeedAPI.

VPS.NET Turnkey Linux Drupal

timmillwood — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:22:25 +0000

VPS.NET is a new cloud hosting solution from uk2group. When I found out they offered Drupal via a Turnkey Linux, I thought I had to give it a try.

Drupalcamp UK & my sessions

timmillwood — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:50:07 +0000

This weekend saw the first Drupalcamp UK, which was held at the BBC offices in Manchester. Over the two days the BBC was taken over by around 80 Drupal geeks who attended 29 sessions split between two tracks. All of the session were held by UK based developers, apart from a few by Robert Douglass of Acquia who came over from Germany for the event.

Drupal book update

timmillwood — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:07:25 +0000

As mentioned in previous posts I am writing a Drupal book. I can officially announce the book will be entitled “Professional Drupal Module development”, it will be published by Wrox Press, who are a brand of Wiley, the book will fall into their Professional series.

Review: Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery - Matt Butcher

timmillwood — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:17:58 +0000

With this book Butcher has touched upon a great topic for the Drupal community, and the great thing I found when starting to read the book is not much JavaScript knowledge is needed. When reading the book I quickly scanned Chapter 1: Drupal and JavaScript and Chapter 2: Working with JavaScript in Drupal. The first chapter gives a good overview of coding languages used, Drupal and Javascript, the second gives a good overview of how Drupal can use JavaScript within a theme, and how the theming system works.

Lack of blogging: New job and The Drupal Book

timmillwood — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:46:53 +0000

There has recently been a lack of blog posts, but this unfortunately is because there are more important things to do. Two weeks ago I started a new job, and I have also just signed a contract to write a Drupal book.