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The Quickest way to Install Sublime Text 2 in Ubuntu
2nd March 2013
After reading numerous blog posts about how to install Sublime Text 2 in Ubuntu, this is definitely the quickest way!
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Creating and using custom tokens in Drupal 7
16th February 2013
This post outlines the steps required to create your own custom tokens in Drupal.
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Checking if a user is logged into Drupal (the right way)
9th January 2013
I see this regularly when working on Drupal sites when someone wants to check whether the current user is logged in to Drupal (authenticated) or not (anonymous).
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How to use SASS and Compass in Drupal 7 using Sassy
6th December 2012
I've recently started using SASS rather than LESS to do my CSS preprocessing - namely due to its integration with Compass and it's built-in CSS3 mixins. Here are three modules that provide the ability to use SASS within Drupal.
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Open Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Command Line
17th November 2012
How to open Sublime Text from the command line.
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Accessible Bristol site launched
15th November 2012
I'm happy to announce that the Accessible Bristol website was launched this week, on Drupal 7.
The site has been developed over the past few months, and uses the User Relationships and Privatemsg modules to provide a community-based platform where people with an interest in accessibility can register and network with each other.
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My Sublime Text 2 settings
25th October 2012
Sublime Text 2 has been my text editor of choice for the past few months, and I use it at home, in work, and on any virtual machines that I run. So rather than having to manually re-enter my settings each time, I thought that I'd document them here for future reference.
These preferences ensure that the code is compliant with Drupal coding standards - using two spaces instead of a tab, no trailing whitespace, blank line at the end of a file etc.
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Reflections on speaking at UnifiedDiff
6th September 2012
Yesterday evening I went along and spoke at the UnifiedDiff meetup in Cardiff, having offered previously to do a presentation providing an introduction to Drupal.
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Display a Custom Menu in a Drupal 7 Theme Template File
18th August 2012
For reference, this is the code needed to display a menu in a Drupal 7 template file, including the navigation ARIA role.
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Writing an Article for Linux Journal
27th July 2012
I'm absolutely delighted to announce that I'm going to be writing an article for Linux Journal magazine's upcoming Drupal special.
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