Drupal IDE

Drupal IDE sounds great!!

During the past one year, my experience with Drupal has been very extreme.

I feel empowered whenever I realise that I can implement my ideas on Drupal. Glad that Drupal gives me the ability to customize to any extent.

But, there are sometimes when I feel that the workflow is too inefficient.

I think some part of inefficiency is because of my low experience with Drupal and some because there are no standard workflows recommended for beginners. (or are there any?)

I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

Hi All,

When working on different Drupal projects I have faced a problem of repeatedly implementing certain features by code. Usually what I do is copy the code from some old modules/theme and customize it for the new requirements. I think most people use the same approach in this scenario.

ciao folks,

i'm currently setting up a development environment whose primary use is intended for testing and debugging a 'beta' of the live site that i run.

so far i have set up the following:

a virtual machine with
* LAMP-stack on an Ubuntu-OS
* XDebug-extension to Apache
* a Drupal installation that matches my live setup

Eclipse as IDE on my workstation with
* PDT (PHP Development Tools)
* RSE (Remote System Explorer)

Hello everyone,

I have been "messing" with drupal for a while now, and have now taken my first job as a 100% committed Drupal developer & tech lead for a company that builds massive websites for large federal initiatives that involve dense structures, complex role management schemes, and mountains of content (often 10,000+ nodes).

So, one of my first tasks as we get started is to work with the site building team and sys admins to create a solid process for performing migrations from dev >>> staging, sometimes staging >>> dev, and, of course, the eventual staging >>> production.

I have just released a module for Netbeans to aid in Drupal Development. The module is available on Github (full source included).

The module is just starting out as I re-teach myself Java. I have put together documentation on it here. I do have future features planned on the module as I get the time, but right now it really does help with development. You can also customize the module through a custom template system.

Hey all,

Just wanted to announce a TextMate plugin that I altered on github for easier file navigation.

When you open a folder in TextMate, a drawer with a navigator appears. The MissingDrawer plugin (https://github.com/jezdez/textmate-missingdrawer) promotes the drawer into a dedicated view that sits next to the text editor. You can show/hide the sidebar, and switch the sidebar's location also. Other commands are available in View > Project Drawer, and you can go to TextMate's preferences to customize colors and the Terminal button.

I'm working on integrating Jenkins with my development workflow, and I want to use Jenkin's checkstyle plugin to make sure my code follows drupal's coding standards. Is there a checkstyle configuration out there already for drupal's coding standards?

Similar to Textmate, but cross platform and under active development, I recently stumbled across Sublime Text 2.

On a quick google search for drupal and sublime, I got this page which has a Drupal6 autocompletion file all set for use with Sublime.

http://tanc.me/blog/2011/drupal-autocomplete-file-sublime-text-2

Sublime Text 2 is still in the alpha phase, thus not feature complete by any means. Though it is stable apparently, with new releases coming out about once a week. The trial period is indefinite, though it is a paid for program (not sure as to the cost of it).

Hi,

This took me a bit to figure out and I thought I'd share it. Hopefully someone else finds it useful.

Drupal 7 serializes php data into long-blob fields, instead of just saving strings like in D6. This is great, because now D7 can store and retrieve arrays, not just strings. Hurray!

Unfortunately, out-of-the-box phpMyAdmin does not show this data as text, it just shows [BLOB - 14B]. Meh!