Seeking login/register/forgot password in a modal popup for your Drupal 7 site? What about webforms? What about .. anything in a shadow modal popup??

I did a little research recently and came across this popular request and several hackish ways to go about it with popular packages like colorbox, lightbox, thickbox, shadowbox, and it looks like the smart, Drupal 7 way is to leverage CTools.  But who's got time to learn CTools??  Enter http://drupal.org/project/modal_forms!

A challenge I had faced recently was how to take the local user's browser cookies, which contains some shared top-level-domain session related values that tell a remote .Net service all about the user, and share it in a drupal_http_request call.  The ultimate goal is to share website partials (like the header containing Sign In/Sign Out link and verbiage), and that header partial is built, managed, and served by a .Net web application.

This time, Chrome came to my rescue with it's super Firefox-Awesomebar-like function of typing a partial-match in the addressbar to instantly bring back some otherwise lost work. Here's the story..

First off, a disclaimer: I have to use SVN for an inherited project. We are moving to git.  In the meantime, i'm working locally in Git and pushing ("committing") to remote SVN.  Unfortunately, I didn't ignore .svn files/folders early enough and had to double back to clean up:

find . -type d -name '.svn' | xargs git rm -rf --ignore-unmatch

seems to have done the trick.  I'll know later.  .gitignore of course has .svn in it as well.

A few years ago, I posted about a photoshop-shape-tool-anti-alias-bug and got a good bit of feedback here and at sitepoint forum. The issue still persists today in CS5-- in fact, it is not only at non-100% now.  I hope someone can show me that I'm wrong.  In the meantime, I found a work-around (sort of).

Ok, SPAM, you win!  But I get the final say (for now).  To mass-delete ALL spam, I did a "delete from comments where cid != 9189" which deleted ~8000 spam comments while preserving Matt's for posterity.

My apologies to me and the 5-8 others who legitimatly commented on content and had good insights to share.  I don't love spam, and I won't let it dominate my evening picking off 50 at a time in Sequel Pro (anymore).

Dah-ha!

Some time ago, I observed on a client project that version id (vid) was not equal to node id (nid) even though Revision/History was not enabled on this instance.  Weirdness.  In the end, it turned out to be something goofy with a mysql crash botched recovery and data restoration at the datacenter, but that's a tale for another time (perhaps over a beer at Dallas Drupal Days 2012?)

Follow me as I journey down a shaky path. 

Goal: I am moving some cck fields off of a Quote Node down into the experimental/abandoned/phantom project content_multigroup* whilst keeping the values from the database.  It is to be done with a combo of Feature revert and hook_update_n.

Plan: Leveraging the fact that reverting to Feature code with fields missing (removed) from Drupal/database does not in fact drop the db columns from the content_type_<type> table structure, I should be able to:

Miss the old Drupal 6 recipe of:

cck node type + nodereference + nodereference_url + views_attach of Drupal 6 and days gone by?  Fear not-- you can still do it in Drupal 7 in much the same way, just with different names: