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Making Acquia Dev Desktop more suitable for development on Windows

Recently Realityloop ran Aegir based deployment training and we had a reasonable proportion of Windows and Linux users at the course, as it turns out only the Mac users didn't run into any problems at all on the day.

Although we had given the windows users instructions for setting up Drush and Acquia Dev Desktop we found out on the day that this is a very poor solution without doing some additional work.

Advanced Drupal Workflow for Alfred V2

I've been a longtime fan of Alfred App, an award-winning productivity application for Mac OS X.

They've just released Alfred v2 which is re-written from the ground up to be faster, more efficient and easier to use, as a powerpack user of V1 I've been beta testing it for several months now.

Alfred 2 has a new replacement for extensions called workflows and I have written a Drupal workflow that handles the Drupal API integration in a much faster way than the old Version 1 extension.

DrupalCon Sydney competition: And the winner is...

Medal with green and gold ribbon

Late last year we announced that we at Realityloop would be giving away both a ticket and accommodation for DrupalCon Sydney to one lucky Druapl developer in a Module development competition.

We received a great number of submissions with some fantastic projects that we look forward to seeing more of in the future, but we are glad to say that there was one outstanding submission that clearly won the day.

Win a ticket and accommodation for DrupalCon Sydney

Growing Drupal Downunder

Next year brings the first official Asia-Pacific DrupalCon, DrupalCon Sydney, but alas, all tickets are now sold out… so we at Realityloop want to give one skilled Drupal enthusiast the opportunity to not only snap up a free ticket to the grand event, but also get their accommodation at the conference venue covered as well.

So how can you win? By writing the best 'Growing Drupal Downunder' themed Drupal 7 module of course.

Setup your own Drupal API reference site

One of the key reasons I was drawn to Drupal as a platform is that it had great developer documentation available. The Drupal API reference site, api.drupal.org, was and is one of my most used resources.

As good as the site is though, if you happen to have a long commute (like myself) or you're just about to jump on a plane to DrupalCon, you aren't always guaranteed to have access to it. So in cases like that you need your own copy.

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