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This weekend there was another Drupal CxO meeting in Amsterdam. After the big success of the first meeting in Brussels this was the second event of this type in Europe. This time with a focus on development, business and quality assurance processes in Drupal shops.

So you've set up your development environment, you have a test server and a production server. You want to restrict access to the test server, so that only your development team, your client and perhaps the designer can actually view the test server. The rest of the world should always be presented with the production environment. Well, there's a simple piece of code you can enter in your .htaccess file in your Drupal root on the test server:

Although not technically a Template Snippet, this tip saved the day numerous times.

CSS sprites are very usefull in reducing page load and fluid mouseover effects with background images. Creating sprites and the appropriate CSS is a time consuming process however. But Brian Grinstead made our life a lot easier. Visit his website at instantsprite.com and see for yourself. You can upload all your images and the tool automatically creates the sprite and the CSS for you. Very fast and usefull when theming your Drupal theme!

First off in our Drupal Template Snippets series is this HOWTO. You can add a custom menu in your page regions with a block, but sometimes you might want to make sure the menu is always there. And you do not want to worry about someone accidentally removing the menu block from your site. Well, here is a snippet to add a custom made menu to your page.tpl.php.

Though a lot of the Drupal community is using Git, I don't think everyone knows the tools I want to write about in this post. I can tell you, I cannot live without theme anymore:

• Git flow
• Git completion
• Bash prompt with Git information

Op 19 mei 2011 was de eerste Drupal Tech talk georganiseerd door Triquanta en Hoppinger. Ik kan wel zeggen dat het een groot succes was. We gingen er van uit dat er ongeveer 15 mensen zouden inschrijven omdat we aangekondigd hadden dat de onderwerpen zeer technisch van aard zouden zijn.

Now that Drupal 7 is released we can look forward to Drupal 8. What can we do better? What features do we need for Drupal 8? This was the main topic of the keynote of Dries Buytaert at Drupalcon Chicago on March 8th.

Drupal 8 should be ready for the future of course, and the future according to Dries is:

 

Lately a new project was launched on drupal.org, which purpose is to provide hook templates for the Eclipse IDE (http://drupal.org/project/eclipse). After installing the templates in Eclipse, I was very happy not to have to lookup the Drupal api pages for these hooks anymore. As soon as I began using these templates, I wished that I had such templates for non core hooks as well (the apachesolr module hooks for instance). Luckily, it is very easy to create these templates in Eclipse yourself.

At Triquanta we are preparing the transition from subversion to git. We choose git first of all because Drupal is changing to git as well. But the main reason is that we wanted to be able to branch more easily and that we wanted a decentralized system.

In deze blog een blik in onze keuken: Google Docs en Redmine integreren met Drupal. Beide projecten nog in de proof-of-concept fase, maar met werkbare resultaten.

Integratie met Redmine