Posted by While Stanford Web Services can be seen as a service provider, often involved with custom projects and closely working with clients, one of our core offerings is also our Jumpstart product. With any product offering company, as adoption and usage of the...
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Drush "user-list" Command
Posted by John Bickar on Friday, June 26, 2015 - 9:05am A simple task: list all the users on a site, optionally filtering by role or by status. Difficulty: using drush.
I had searched around a bit for this functionality and my Google-fu had failed me, so I decided to build off of...
Behat Custom Step Definition: Wait for Batch API to Finish
Posted by John Bickar on Friday, February 13, 2015 - 2:00pm If you're using Behat and the Drupal Extension, you might find the following code snippet helpful if you want to add a step to wait for batch jobs to...
Hard vs soft configuration: Designing your distribution
Posted by Shea Ross McKinney on Monday, October 27, 2014 - 8:30am In this article we are going to talk about what hard and soft configuration is and how to decide between the two when creating a distribution.
At Stanford Web Services...
pushd, dirs, and popd
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...
Creating a Static Copy of a Website
Posted by John Bickar on Monday, March 17, 2014 - 10:09am The modern Web is a dynamic place. However, sometimes it's necessary (or desirable) to remove the dynamic functionality of a website, while preserving its static content.
Inspired in part by Karen Stevenson's excellent blog post, "...
Create a Page Title From the Views Exposed Filter Term
Posted by Caryl J Westerberg on Monday, March 10, 2014 - 8:18am Suppose you're using taxomomy terms in exposed filters, and you want the resulting page to display one of the the terms as a title. Taxonomy term pages will give this to you very easily, but sometimes the taxonomy term page is not the right solution. Here's how you can display...
Creating a Menu Position Rule Programatically
Posted by John Bickar on Friday, October 11, 2013 - 9:03am The Menu Position module provides a powerful way for Drupal to create "virtual" menu items, and provides a graphical user interface to...
Stanford Events Importer 7.x-2.x
Posted by John Bickar on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 - 3:14pm In November, 2012, SWS released a stable beta version of the Stanford Events Importer for...
ExploreCourses and the Stanford Courses Drupal Module
Posted by John Bickar on Friday, December 14, 2012 - 11:42am In December, 2011, we released the Stanford Courses module for Drupal 6. This is a Features-based module that polls the XML feed at ExploreCourses and creates Course and...
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