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Drush for Deployment and remote management

Drush for Deployment and remote management

For those who haven't heard about drush before, i would recommend going through these videos before. For those who know about Drush, have you ever imagined how easy life would become if you could manage your staging sites without having ...

Gatekeeping your code using git hooks

Gatekeeping your code using git hooks

Git-hooks are scripts that Git runs after/before events like: commit, push and pull. These come in bundled with git itself. So, no need to download any package to use them. Couple of interesting git hooks from a developers perspective ar...

Advanced Services Tutorial

Advanced Services Tutorial

Coming from a Rails background, which is almost built to cater to services and REST API, Drupal was always gonna be tough when it came to services. Our hands were tied, as we knew we had to use Drupal because of the the advantages it off...

Sublime -- awesome sauce for Drupal

Sublime -- awesome sauce for Drupal

Those of you, who have been living under the rock and "Sublime Text" is alien, please refer the following blog posts: Perfection with Sublime Text - Part 1 Perfection with Sublime Text - Part 2How many times have your system got struck u...

Perfection with Sublime Text - Part 1

Perfection with Sublime Text - Part 1

For web developers, the choice of a source code editor isn't one made lightly. If you are going to be coding on a daily basis, and thus productivity is gained or lost here on a grand scale.But my search for the best code editor stopped w...

Exposing custom Web Services

Exposing custom Web Services

In this article, I will show you how to expose data from a custom table with the help of RESTful services and JSON. Such cases usually arise when you need to expose data for other sites or want mobile development for an existing Drupal s...

Dont out-spend, out-teach your competition

Dont out-spend, out-teach your competition

A snippet from a DHH talk on entrepreneurship at Stanford where he emphasises that instead of trying to outspend your competition in advertising, to build a sustainable business you should rather build an audience by educating about your...

OmniAuth for external authentication with rails

OmniAuth for external authentication with rails

Omniauth is a pretty simple solution if you want your users to authenticate using oauth and openid providers. Its based on the principle that Every authentication system can essentially be boiled down into two "phases". Request phas...

Niche Social Networks – Why do they matter?

Niche Social Networks – Why do they matter?

In the deluge of news about twitter, facebook and other social networks behemoths like MySpace we often fail to take into account the power of domain specific or niche social networks. What are they? – They are social networks which invo...