This article describes a simple shell script that backs up your local MySQL databases. It also goes into how to automate the process so it runs everyday using a cron job. Handy!

So I just figured out how to get Drupal’s multi-site configuration working on my Rackspace Linux server.
Let’s say your Drupal core is located at my-drupal-core.com. Install Drupal there, this will be your master copy.
Within your ’sites’ folder, create a folder for each domain you will want to run off this core installation. Let’s say [...]

Perhaps you typed an author’s name into Drupal’s search box, looking for content from that particular author. But for all Drupal knows, you’re just looking for content that matches the search phrase you just entered and could care less about who wrote it.

I’ve been really enjoying working with Drupal - the more I learn about it, the more ideas I get on how to use it. Yet, sometimes it can make a simple thing a bit daunting - like fetching a user’s name from a user id, without needed to load the entire user object with user_load() [...]

While working on my latest Drupal project, I really wanted an easy, brainless way for users to create clickable “mailto:” links that gave pesky spam-bots a hard time.
Turns out, the Bbcode module does just the trick. Even if you don’t normally use it, you can add this input filter to your standard HTML filters, and [...]

Over the holiday break, I took the plunge and migrated my businesses email service over to Gmail, using Google Apps for Your Domain (GAFYD) Premier Edition for businesses. For $50 per user per year, a 99.9% SAL, 25 gigs of space, extra bad-ass spam filtering, virus protection, backups, etc. I figured why the heck not.
Modifying [...]

I’ve been spending more time than usual using the Terminal, and I like how quick it to get around the file system. Today, while messing with the linux find command, I started to wonder if I could search for a folder, and then open it as a project in TextMate, all with a one line [...]

When you want to import a large SQL query in phpMyAdmin, you can run into problems as the default upload size limit is restricted by whatever it is in the php.ini file - and often, you cannot change this or simply don’t want to. It tends to default to a measly 2MB.
However, there’s a feature [...]

Using a few simple tricks, you can help trim down those enormous search results in Google to locate what you are actually looking for.

CSS files have a tendency to get unruly - I feel like I’m always scrolling up and down the file, even when I have it nice and organized by section, just to find a section. Sure, sometimes I bring up the Find dialog. Using the keyboard shortcut of Apple+f is handy enough. But when I [...]