Trellon - modules

The features module

jventura — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:59:32 +0000

A Drupal site is composed of many parts, often similar to a puzzle. Just like a puzzle, you need to be able to control the pieces at any time. In the software development world, where software exists in the form of source code files, this is handled by a version-control system (such as CVS, Subversion or git - naming just the ones we use for Trellon). By using a VCS, you're able to check-in and check-out all the PHP files that make up Drupal and all the contrib and custom-made modules that compose a site.

Upgrading modules to Drupal 7

jventura — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:48:53 +0000

With the recent release of Drupal 7, the community should now focus on upgrading existing Drupal 6 modules to Drupal 7.

Having already upgraded the print module from 4.7 to Drupal 5, and from that to Drupal 6, I can tell you that this time the process will be both harder and easier.

A lot harder

Trellon Launches Scribd View Module

cvertesi — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:48:59 +0000

PDFs have historically been difficult to integrate into Drupal. Site owners were forced to include PDFs as attachments to content, and accept the interruption to the site layout that the external plugin presented. Building on the excellent Scribd API, our new module allows PDFs to be displayed on your site without the Adobe Reader plugin. Scribd Field integrates with the well-supported Filefield module, and allows you to integrate your PDFs into the look and feel of the rest of your site.

BDUG March Meetup: Review

dkurtz — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:16:52 +0000

The Berkeley Drupal User Group's March meeting was a week and a half ago, but I'm still thinking about it, and now, in the "better late than never" spirit, I'm writing about it.

Slow Performance: Sharethis/Addthis

kelse — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:40:33 +0000

In between sessions at Drupalcon DC I was asked if Trellon generally implements bookmarking tools such as, sharethis or addthis, for clients? I started to answer that we have no preference but stopped myself when I remembered a client situation with Sharethis. When the Sharethis component was installed it made page load times slow and it had some script caching issues. In this situation it resulted in page loads of over 20 secs and obviously lead to us having to seek an alternative solution.

Dependency Browser Module - Enabling your Drupal Fix

dkurtz — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:14:25 +0000

Whenever I need to implement a custom feature for a Drupal site, I always check the Drupal.org module repository to see if someone has already written a module that does the same thing. This can be difficult, since the number of modules has exploded in recent years and the infrastructure for browsing them has not caught up (though the redesign project has noticed this and is discussing some great improvements). But that might be a ways away so in the mean time I've whipped together one new way of browsing modules with this nifty little Module Dependency Browser for Drupal.

Daily quality control checks with Coder

Morbus Iff — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:44:09 +0000

I'm known, famously or infamously, for my code quality reviews and, whilst I don't get enough time to perform the same anal-retentive behavior at Trellon, I've streamlined checks of the most egregious errors with daily e-mailed reports using Coder and Drush. Drush allows you to operate your Drupal site from the command line, while Coder is a friendly "do it right, bub" for code quality.

Sharing Content with Domain Access

mingram — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:37:49 +0000

We were recently approached by a client who wanted to create two sites to serve different audiences but with vast amounts of common content. The same group of people would be responsible for the upkeep of both sites and the desired solution would allow content to be shared with great ease.

Teleport 1.0 Released

dkurtz — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:32:04 +0000

I've just released version 1.0 of the Teleport module. Teleport is "QuickSilver for Drupal", but if you don't know what QuickSilver is, that's not going to tell you much. Basically, Teleport lets you quickly jump to a page on your Drupal site by typing in part of the path or the title. It saves me a ton of time when jumping around to administration pages that are nested two or three levels deep. See an example in the screencast.

Since the beta release, I've fixed a few bugs and added the ability to search path aliases. I thought that searching paths was important enough that it had to be included in a 1.0 release.

How Trellon gave back to Drupal (April 2008)

Morbus Iff — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:01:55 +0000

As a well-known Drupal shop, Trellon continually strives to contribute back to the Drupal community in any way it can. Sometimes, we're just too busy, other times, we're just plain ol' lazy and, more often than not, Morbus is complaining about quality or apoptosis or whatever. By keeping track of what we give back, however, we hope to more clearly see how much we are, or aren't, helping Drupal help ourselves.