Help in Drupal Modules

by delraydavis on February 6, 2012

Just started building some documentation in the Drupal API modules I built that employ the 3scale API management services. Using the modulename_help hook function.

Normally these files seem to display simple instructions, or information. In this particular instance I decided that code samples would be the most helpful. You can download the updated files from GitHub

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Git and Putty – A bad combination?

by delraydavis on February 4, 2012

My first foray into the world of Git was marred by errors and connection problems.

As it turns out, during the installation process of Git, it was detected I had used Putty previously (I normally use Putty as my SSH of choice when working with amazon EC2 instances), and Git wanted to know if I would like to utilize Putty instead of Git’s native functionality. This where I went wrong.

In trying to connect to my Git repository on Github, all I could get in response from a push attempt was error after error after error. So after 2 days of research and a screaming headache I found that the error I was running into was due to either TIS or CryptoCard authentication methods being used. Putty defaults this preference to deselected. Now with no way of adjusting the Putty settings from within Git, and knowing no way of undoing what I had done during installation, I was left with uninstalling and reinstalling Git with the right configuration.

Worked like a charm! Hope this helps someone avoid the mess I stepped in.

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Development Environments

December 20, 2011

I like to test out ideas on my own local services (I know I am not the only one). I was setting up a windows, apache, php testing environment today and kept running into an issue with getting apache services started up. Long story short is that Skype reserves ports 443 and 80 as secondary [...]

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SOPA – I am afraid

December 16, 2011

My email to Senator Ron Wyden (D – Oregon) I have been reading over the text of H.R.3261.IH, the SOPA bill. As a web developer I have been trying to figure out where the motivation for a constitutional slap in the face may have come from. Senator Wyden you have consistently been an advocate to [...]

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Making a secure API request with Ruby

December 4, 2011

Wanted to get this out there while it was still fresh in my mind. This is adapted from Ethan Vizitei’s blog post found here: http://blog.ethanvizitei.com/2009/04/nethttp-and-ssl.html This example is a simple Get API request but it successfully shows the issues and solutions necessary to making a secure API request. Please note that this script does not [...]

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PR machine in action

November 28, 2011

Interesting how incidents of fringe elements at occupation events make major headlines, however things like this stay under the radar…

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Fox News, What are you smoking????

October 12, 2011

I try to take in both sides routinely. This article caught my eye: http://nation.foxnews.com/occupy-wall-street/2011/10/04/read-demands-occupy-wall-street-and-try-not-laugh Now I found this list to be wildly off base with everything else I have learned of the OWS movement. As such I did a bit of digging. Lets compare what I found on fox’s article, to what I found on [...]

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Couldn’t have said it better myself

October 10, 2011

Feingold, who recently started the PAC Progressives United, also had words for Herman Cain’s anti-protest screed: “There is nothing more un-American than a person like Mr. Cain trying to intimidate people from exercising their right to protest. There is nothing MORE American than peaceful protest. “And if people are being hurt, if they can’t get [...]

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No great stride occurs without a few stumbles

September 9, 2011

In the attempt to produce something magnificent in a project management system, I have decided to leverage the tagging system I built to try and enforce user roles. Going to be doing a good chunk of work on implementation this weekend. I will try and be a little more diligent about blogging on these efforts, [...]

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Motivation

July 10, 2011

Amazing how difficult it can be to get motivated on homework sometimes. Maybe I need a change of environment. Gonna take the little ones down and let them splash around in at the swim and fitness center. Maybe I just need to get out of the house and take a fresh approach. Amazing how much [...]

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