Scott's Blog

HowTo: Change the name display

Posted Tue, 03/10/2009 - 21:31 by scott

There has been a long standing issue concerning display names in Drupal (http://drupal.org/node/102679, http://drupal.org/node/188734, http://drupal.org/node/394282). On MothersClick we achieve this through the theme layer. Specifically, we override theme_username() in our theme. In Drupal 5, this is by far the cleanest solution. It isn't ideal because a module, say a Facebook module, can't change the name without forcing the user to alter their theme. Not nice...

Setting up Komodo Edit for Drupal Development

Posted Mon, 03/09/2009 - 11:57 by scott

The Komodo Community site has been running Drupal for quiet some time. At OpenKomodo.com, Jeff posted a interesting article on a few quick tips to get the cool-ness of Komodo for your Drupal work see: http://www.openkomodo.com/blogs/jeffg/setting-komodo-edit-drupal-develop.... I make use of Komodo IDE at work and Komodo Edit at home.

I have not tried Netbeans that was so recently discussed on the Development mailing list, but not sure anyone can convince me to give up this tool.

Content Recommendation and Similarity Objects released

Posted Sun, 03/08/2009 - 22:03 by scott

I have released the first versions of both of Content Recommendation Engine and Similarity Objects. These modules, while appearing to be duplicates of other modules, are a significant departure from them. Most notably, there use of Views 2 and thus, respecting node_access() which is lacking in most of these modules or it is done after the query is sent to the database. Please read on to find out why I believe both these module provide more functionality then anything like them.