I needed a programatic way to deploy and install Drupal sites using an installation profile. I found that I could use an automated installation profile to create new sites with basic customization rather quickly. I wanted to take this one step further to automate the installation process programatically. Drupal 5 makes creating automated install profiles straitforeward.
Customizing Drupal 5 and 6 forms
I was looking for a way to customize the Drupal node edit pages for specific content types and I found this article from Lullabot. It gives a great overview of the different ways to customize or override the core Drupal form fields. I used this to modify an node edit page to create a simplified version of the form for less technical users so they would not feel overwhelmed with the many customizable options that Drupal provides for a node.
Drupal CLI tools
I was excited more effort going into Drupal command line tools. In the past I’ve had to develop my own tools for deployment and updating Drupal on the command line. Drupal currently has limited tools for the command line in versions 5 and 6. I’m not sure about 7, hopefully it will be better. This Acquia blog post offers a collection of scripts to help deploy and maintain Drupal sites as well as some other features. Thanks Acquia!
Engineering Expo - Electric Motorcycle Photos
I posted some photos of the electric motorcycle. We removed the engine from a 1987 Honda motorcycle and replaced it with 16 - 12 volt batteries and a 10 HP brushless electric motor.
Debugging Mod_python scripts with Apache and PDB
I ran into a problem with one of my python scripts the other day and noticed from the Apache logs that it was causing a segfault somewhere. This is the first time I have had to deal with a segfault in a web based application so I looked around for a debugging solution. I found that mod_python has has a flag that will trigger Apache to start a console running PDB.
Senior Project
This school year starts my senior year at Oregon State and also is the beginning of my senior project. I was chosen to work on a team of students to make an electric motorcycle. The team consists of four electrical engineers, two mechanical engineers, and me the computer scientist. My part in this project is to create a user interface or the “dashboard” and provide an interface between the rider and the hardware. I also will be gathering data that can be later analyzed to aid in optimization.
VirtualBox on Debian Etch
I have been wanting to try out using a virtual install of windows on my Linux install. I saw that innotek offered VirtualBox as an open source solution and decided to try it out. VirtualBox is offered for various platforms and offers binary files for many flavors of Linux.
I first added the entries into my /etc/apt/sources.list
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sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
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and added in the lines at the bottom
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Installing KDE on Ubuntu Feisty - kstartupconfig?
I recently decided to give kde a try on my Ubuntu install on my desktop box. I installed KDE with:
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sudo aptitude install kde
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