Drupal

It seems that a shell history meme is passing around the blogosphere. I first saw it on Dan Mills' blog post via Planet Mozilla. There are already 10 Mozilla hackers posting their top used shell commands, so I thought I'd do it too.

koeji:~ kourge$ uname -a
Darwin koeji.local 9.2.2 Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar  4 21:17:34 PST 20
08; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
koeji:~ kourge$ history | awk '{a[$2]++} END {for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | 
sort -rn | head
88 ls
81 cd
28 cvs
26 rm
26 md5sum
23 ./firefox-bin
22 sudo
12 ssh
12 js
9 less

A few notes:

• md5sum is actually md5 on Mac OS X. I aliased md5 so that I wouldn't suddenly have a hard time adapting should I start using a Linux system.
• js is an alias of java -Xms256m -Xmx512m org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main, which is the command to invoke the Rhino shell, which I sometimes use when I write shell scripts in JavaScript. Rhino is an awesome JavaScript implementation in Java.
• You can see from the cvs count that I'm slacking off recently when it comes to maintaining Drupal modules.

So, fellow Drupalers / Drupalites, what are your most commonly used terminal commands? Beware of the line break before sort -rn when pasting the command into your terminal.

After the Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) contest ended, we've got a huge influx of new contributors in Drupal. The positive influence the GHOP brought was truly amazing. To keep the beat rolling, DROP was created. Standing for Drupal Really Open Participation, we continue the goodness of a task-based system and pancakes.

This is a really brilliant idea. It serves as an incentive for regular contributors. It interests new contributors. It gives recognition. These are all successful traits of GHOP that DROP wishes to carry on. I've personally already claimed one task and plan to work on more once I have the first one cleared.

So what can you do to help? Read on.

With the release of Drupal 6 around the horizon, I made a presentation (as part of GHOP) that (attractively) outlines 5 new features in Drupal 6 that I deemed "awesome".

The following features are outlined:

1. OpenID support
2. Module update status
3. Improved usability
4. Alias filtering
5. Internationalization

Get the presentation.

Following along with the fresh release of Drupal 5.1, I upgraded this site shortly. There are two pages of minor bugs fixed, along with a Comment module vulnerability patched. There seems to be no database scheme changes when compared to Drupal 5.0.

As I grow more and more liking on Drupal, I decided to truly integrate my WordPress-powered blog with my main site. This is quite challenging, since database schemas differ between different content management systems.

With the wp2drupal module, this can be easily achieved, and the only thing that matters would be how much would be migrated. My case was a pretty exceptional one, since I maintain the WordPress blog on a different subdomain with customized permalinks.

Since Drupal 5 has went through all the beta, and is now in the state of RC1, that naturally means this site will soon follow the steps and upgrade to Drupal 5 when it's released.

This design, dubbed Typography Autumn Night, has been up for while. It was intended to be Halloween-centered, but now it's a nice reminiscence of Luna, the last design on my very old site before it was using Drupal.

Like Luna, it has a starry background and a huge moon hanging on the top of the page. The moon deserves some special mentioning. It now hangs high and doesn't disappear even if you scroll the page. Too bad Internet Explorer doesn't do this, and I couldn't care less.