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I spent way too long tonight trying to figure out how to upload a file to drupal, using the "file" field type in drupal. It's really easy, though, once you figure it out.

First, to instantiate the field:
<?php
function my_form() {

$form = array();
$form['#attributes'] = array('enctype' => 'multipart/form-data');

$form['upload'] = array(
'#type' => 'file',

When I recently went to install PHP on a server on which I did *not* want Apache, I learned that a simple, "apt-get install php5" will install Apache.

A quick look at the depends, though, and the following sequence worked.

Yes, I'm aware commands can be combined. I chose multiple steps.

The php5-cgi package fulfills the depends that would otherwise be fulfilled by Apache.

-jbn

I recently had a need to write a custom authentication module for Drupal 6. I struggled to find a good example from which to work. As anyone researching the topic knows, Drupal 6 dropped the couple of hooks that were in Drupal 5 that made custom authentication a brainless activity.

The so-called "snowpocalypse" is here, and ... it's living up to many expectations. About 14-15" on the sidewalk at 7:30 this morning. The sidewalk was pretty heavily treated when this all started, so it was the last to accumulate snow. The middle of the yard is probably 2-3" higher, at least.

I recently needed to install Freeswitch for a singular reason: to register to another server when a SIP client registered to it. (What I call "register on register"). As I went, I decided to document the process of installing and configuring.

Having gotten sick and tired of receiving error messages like this:

I decided to solve the problem once and for all. We use puppet to manage machines, so this should be - and is - straight forward.

/etc/puppet/modules/locales/files/locales.gen:

#
# /etc/locales.gen
#
# managed by puppet
#

When the state initially deregulated the electricity market, I had little use for it. It wasn't that I loved our monopoly provider, BGE, it was more that I really didn't believe I would benefit from deregulation. A year or two ago, I finally found a benefit: Pepco Energy Services offered to sell me 100% wind power at at premium over the price of regular power. (For what it's worth, BGE's supply is, I believe, coal and nuclear).

It's common to want to add "www" to a domain name, so that users typing in the "non-www" domain name, will get to the right site. It's important to implement this with a 301 redirect so that search engines recognize that there is only one true and real site.

The traditional way to do this is:

Every few years since the dawn of time ... okay ... so perhaps since the late 90's, I've started euphline.com anew, from scratch. Each time, I've moved to a different content management scheme, and pretty much replaced all of the content. This time, it's on Drupal 6, running the Domain Access module, as part of a family of sites including ejTown and Elizabeth's Books.

The Associated Press reports that the House bill, designed to delay the digital tv switchover failed to pass.  Reuters reports it passed.  I love it when that happens! AP: "The House has defeated a bill to postpone the upcoming transition from analog to digital television broadcasting by four months to June 12." Reuters: "The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to delay