Komodo's Database Explorer is pretty cool. You can access your databases, view table schemas, run queries etc right from the IDE. No need to run a separate app or access your databases on the command line.

Lets say you have found a bug in someone else's contributed module. It happens! You could raise an issue in the issue queue for that module, or you could fix it yourself and contribute the fix back to the community. You are not always going to be able to fix it yourself, but if you can, you should, as this will help everyone, not just the module maintainer.

I have been on the hunt for a new host for a while now and, after many recommendations, decided to give Linode a go. Linode is a cloud based VPS provider. You get root SSH access and set everything up for yourself, with the exception of the Linux distribution, which can be installed with one click.

The codebase I am working on uses hierarchical select with taxonomy to make it easy for editors to tag from nested terms. Pathauto is used to create the URL alias for the content type. We need both the parent and child terms in the URL, so use this token: [save-lineage-termpath-raw].

I have a confession to make. This site runs on Drupal 5! Back in its day, Drupal 5 was a great system. But it a far cry from what Drupal 7 now offers. I have plenty of experience upgrading sites from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6, but I want to take this all the way to Drupal 7.

On my current project, we create a branch at the beginning of each sprint and maintain a clean trunk. All code from the sprint is committed to the sprint branch. At the end of the sprint, we merge the sprint branch into trunk (assuming it passes QA). This is pretty much the same setup as feature branches. Here are a few notes and snippets for this type of setup.

I found out about a handy new Firefox tip today while watching a Drupalize.me video, which I thought I would share.

As you may or may not know, you can assign a keyword to a bookmark. When you type in that keyword into the Firefox URL bar, you will be sent off to the full URL. So it saves a bit of typing.

Debugging with an IDE like Komodo (or another debugging tool) will save you a whole world of pain. It will save you through dropping in print_r all over you code and allow you to step in and out of your code as it executes with ease. The first stage, of course, is setting it up and that is the focus of this tutorial. 

I was fortunate enough to be part of the biggest DrupalCon so far, DrupalCon London. 1,751 Drupalistas were there, attending a total of 73 sessions, participating in code sprints, making friends and having a good time.

With the default PHP settings, Drush will probably get a fatal error because the PHP memory limit is too low. Thankfully, the solution is very simple.