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Caryl Westerberg Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Monday, June 30, 2014 - 2:45pm

Sometimes things happen that are beyond your realm of control. A page in your website or maybe your whole site goes missing. Then, to add insult to injury, the backups can’t restore the site. What can you do to recover?

Introducing Internet Archive

Take heart my friend, all may not be lost. You may not be able to restore the site, but there might be a record of its content at the Internet Archive (archive.org). According to Internet Archive,

Linnea Williams profile pic Posted by Linnea Ann Williams on Monday, June 23, 2014 - 3:05pm

Caches are a great tool, they store your website's database and code information in a way that loads much faster. But they DO mean that your changes don't appear right away.

Where are my changes?

One of the things we here at Stanford Web Services get emailed about most frequently is, "Why did my changes disappear when I logged out?" The answer is that the site caches haven't yet been updated, but they will if we wait a little bit (sometimes a few hours or so).

Photo of John Bickar Posted by John Bickar on Monday, June 9, 2014 - 4:49am

If you spend a lot of your day at the command line (as I do), you're constantly on the lookout for new tools and tricks to increase your productivity and efficiency. Today we're going to take a look at the pushd suite of commands that exist in most shells (e.g., bash, tcsh and so forth).

Photo of John Bickar Posted by John Bickar on Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 6:40am

Linnea Williams and I participated in the "Scaling Drupal for Higher Ed" panel discussion at DrupalCon Austin on June 5th, 2014.

Video of the session is now available, and you can download a PDF copy of our slides here.

Shea McKinney Posted by Shea Ross McKinney on Monday, June 2, 2014 - 9:00am

Sometimes it is about the small things. Something missing in Drupal's date popup field was a time popup. The calendar popup is very useful and very user friendly but it's sister field, the time field, is not. 

Just give me the goods: Drupal Module Project Page

Time Picker

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