Ezy-Bake Drupal: Cooking sites with Distributions

Realityloop will be presenting/has presented a session at Drupal Downunder 2012, of which they where partially involved in the origination of. The talk which will be/was presented by Stuart Clark is geared towards the creation of personal Drupal distributions.

Below you will find some resources, including the presentation slides and information on how to build a local copy of the example Drupal distribution, and time travel permitted, a recording of the presentation itself...

 

Mac OS X / nginx / MariaDB / PHP / Aegir (MEMPÆ)

MEMPÆ (Mac OS X 10.7 / nginx / MariaDB / PHP / Aegir)

At Realityloop we've found Ægir to be a major time saver and great tool for deplying Drupal websites, so several months ago we started on the path to get Aegir running locally on our Mac's for development purposes, with one caveat.. using NGINX instead of Apache!

Without further ado here is how to do it both by Video and Text instructions, please follow the instructions carefully as this process has been refined to make the process as painless as possible. Yes, this works on both Lion and Snow Leopard.

Introducing the Deep Zoom module

Realityloop has just released the Deep Zoom module, a module that provides the ability to create interactively viewable high-resolution images using the Microsoft Deep Zoom file format and the Seadragon Ajax library, ala Zoom.it but hosted 100% locally.

Setting up multicore Apache Solr on OS X using Homebrew

Realityloop is currently working on a client project the involves adding a new region to a site and having region specific content, the client is already using Apache Solr to improve the search of their products. Deciding I needed to set up Apache Solr locally for testing to ensure that each region only returned results for it's products, using Homebrew here is how I went about it.

OS X Ditching MAMP (Pro): Part 2 Gmail email relay

Postfix Gmail Relay

It's a little over a month since I wrote an article on how to use OS X's inbuilt versions of Apache, MySQL and PHP instead of replying on MAMP (Pro), one of the things I didn't address during that article was allowing the system to send emails, so here is how to do it using Gmail as a smtp relay.

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