In the past year, we've worked with a number of fantastic clients. One of the things we've seen repeatedly is a desire by some clients to do work that is a "port" of the existing site to Drupal technologies. This is often not the right approach.  read more »

Drupal without drush is like a burger without cheese. So when, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to ensure that a specific version of drush is installed on a number of systems in a standard location, falling back to your distribution’s package management system is probably a good idea.

Thus, I’ve hacked together a quick script that’ll grab a version of drush and turn it into a noarch binary RPM, suitable for use on RHEL/CentOS (and probably Fedora, for that matter).  read more »

We’ve been getting reports of intermittent issues with transcoding on our CDN2 service.

After digging around for a while, we’ve found an issue where messages are not getting delivered through Amazon SQS to our transcode nodes.

The good news is that as of tomorrow morning, we’ll be deploying CDN2 to a new scaleable infrastructure that removes the Amazon dependencies. This move will improve performance and stabillity of video uploads and transcoding.  read more »

Whenever a group of us WorkHabit folks are sitting around the virtual watercooler reviewing upcoming projects, one of the first questions we need to answer is about the quality of the code we're starting with.

The big question we always want to know is this: Is core hacked? And how badly?

After doing this manually several times, I decided to cut to the chase and write a script for it.

The bash script to do this is at the bottom of this post. Just save it as iscorehacked.sh, mark it executable, and have at it.  read more »

Today marks the first beta version of our Drupal AutoTagging module.

This has been a long time in the works, and included several conversations between myself and Frank Febbraro, the creator of the original autotagging project and maintainer on the OpenCalais module, which this initiative is designed to facilitate.

The goal of this project:

Provide a pluggable framework for fetching taxonomy (tag) information from third party services.

The initial release of the project supports three different tagging services:  read more »

We're happy to announce that the latest version of our free Drupal AMI has been released: Drupal AMI 1.0 RC1, AWS ID ami-2a8a6d43. Like the previous version of our AMI, it will allow you to install any version of Drupal that you like, at the click of a button.

What's new in this version? At the request of our users, this AMI comes pre-installed with several packages that are dependencies used by many popular Drupal modules, including pear, screen, php-soap, Crypt_HMAC, and mcrypt (both the package and the apache configuration).  read more »

We’ve had a great response to CDN2, our video platform for Drupal. The number one request so far was to make a Drupal 6 compatible version. I’m happy to announce that CDN2 is now available for Drupal 6 on the Drupal.org project page.

If you haven’t tried to do video online, you’d be surprised at how difficult it is. There’s a large number of formats out there, and often your source video isn’t appropriate for displaying on a web page. The process of converting the source to a format and size that works online and then getting it into Drupal and delivered to your viewers turns out to be expensive and time consuming.  read more »

A few questions arose about how to use the Drupal Amazon EC2 AMI we released in August. We added some screenshots to the page to help show how to configure it and clarified the instructions a bit. To help further, I created a quick screencast demonstrating the process of launching the AMI, connecting it to persistent storage, and then stopping the instance and reconnecting the persistent storage to another instance.  read more »

It has been talked a lot that people are experiencing issues with their user's sessions on their drupal sites in Safari. Most experience the same issue:

• A user logs in, tries to create content and are kicked / logged out and taken to the homepage

It appears the bug has something to do with the way Safari handles URLs (Domain Names). For most localhost environment set ups, its easy to put whatever we would like as our site domain. But there is a problem when it comes to adding (_) verse (-) in those names.

For Example:  read more »