http://sourcefusion.nl/blog Fusing information into websites and webapplications Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:21:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All the recommendations for Organic Groups (OG) made me curious. Can I use them for my purposes and safely hand over part of the responsabilities of managing restricted content? I downloaded and installed the module. Although I've read some documentation, it all assumed you were already familiar with OG, so I ... http://sourcefusion.nl/blog/2009/09/the-first-steps-in-og-land/ The current configuration includes many modules, a.o. I18n, Content Access, Views and CCK. With these I'm able to define roles, grant restricted access to nodes based on roles and keep the site bi-lingual (Dutch and English, with the largest part of the content in Dutch). This works fairly well. On the ... http://sourcefusion.nl/blog/2009/09/pros-and-cons-of-the-current-configuration/ Although I subscribe to the ideas in the book (see my previous post) that you need to write user stories and follow an architectural approach, my main goal here is to see whether Organic Groups provide features I need in the next version of my website. The site evolved from a ... http://sourcefusion.nl/blog/2009/09/drupal-site-requirements/ Summer holidays is an excellent time to do some major work on my pet project. Sitting in the shade with cool drinks at hand I started to read a book on Drupal I came across some time ago. This book, Leveraging Drupal: Getting your site done right, turned out ... http://sourcefusion.nl/blog/2009/09/drupal-website-overhaul/ The update to Wordpress 2.7 goes as painless as described in the docs. However, after importing and editing posts, I always end up with an 500 internal server error. Haven't found the cause yet. Happens with both a manual upgrade and a clean install from an Installtron script in Plesk. ... http://sourcefusion.nl/blog/2008/12/update-to-wordpress-27/ In an attempt to update Drupal to it's latest version (6.5) I decided to test it on my local setup. Lo and behold, I got an 'Access denied'. After testing out several possible causes, I googled around. The answer: a few days ago I setup an SMB share on my home ... http://sourcefusion.nl/blog/2008/11/access-denied-yet-again/ Something I never experienced on my local setup suddenly happened on the production site: random white pages. Consistent in that it was always the same pages (e.g. admin/build/modules), but random because most content pages would show up fine and many admin pages as well. Digging aroung showed an error in the ... http://sourcefusion.nl/blog/2008/09/drupal-shows-blank-pages-sometimes/ Finally I thought it was time to move my Gallery2 configuration + albums to the production site. This time making sure that I took the necessary precautions. Yes, it was uploaded without errors and yes, I could switch off maintenance mode and yes, I could see my pictures and enter the ... http://sourcefusion.nl/blog/2008/09/gallery2-woes/ Drupal is growing on me: I like it more and more and I'm capable of doing much more with Drupal after a few months than I could with Joomla after the same amount of studying. However, today I spend more than an hour figuring out why I couldn't get the CAPTCHA ... http://sourcefusion.nl/blog/2008/09/drupal-module-subtleties/ During the reinstallation of Gallery2 I also wanted to set the database username to the same name as the production site to have as few differences as possible. I ran into a problem I had before when installing Drupal: the only connection allowed was using user 'root'. Whenever I used ... http://sourcefusion.nl/blog/2008/08/mysql-vs-php-login-weirdness/