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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.

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.

Quicklook: Syntax highlighter for Drupal files (module, profile, theme, install, inc)

Note: added support for drupal make files!

For some time now I've been using the QLColorCode plugin for Quicklook, but it wasn't highlighting all drupal filetypes, so today I did some hacking and enabled highlighting for the following previously unsupported filetypes:

Presentation: From Zero to Rockstar (Contributing to Drupal)

You've made the decision to use Drupal and you know the power of Drupal is the community behind it, but you not a coder... So how can you contribute?

There are a lot of ways you can help and I aim to show you some of the ways, and also show you where to get started if you want to help with coding as well.

This is my presentation slides from DrupalDownunder, I hope you find them useful.

Tables Filter Module: Drupal 7 release

Tables Filter Module

Just released for Drupal 7! also available for Drupal 4, 5 and 6.

The Tables Filter Module is a filter that converts a simple [table ] macro into HTML encoded table, it is ideal for when you don't want to use a WYSIWYG editor but still want to allow the easy addition of tables for editors.

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