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Display a Twitter Profile using YQL & jQuery

Posted by Jocelyn July 25 '10
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With YQL (Yahoo! Query Language), you can access data from multiple sources using a SQL-like language that lets you query, filter and join data. If you're already familiar with SQL syntax, using YQL should be fairly straight-forward.

select * from twitter.user.profile where id='screen_name'

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Installing Drush on Windows

Posted by Jocelyn June 28 '10
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With ‎Drush‎ you can greatly reduce the amount of time needed to setup and upgrade your Drupal installations - even if you're not a command line expert. If you haven't used Drush yet, you've probably at least heard of it.

This walkthrough will list the steps to get Drush setup on Windows. I'm using WAMP for my localhost. If you're using something else some of your paths might be different, but the setup process is the same.

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Display a GMap of a Referenced Location

Posted by Jocelyn June 10 '10
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If you have many events that are at the same location, instead of adding the location information to each event, you can setup one location that is referenced by each of your events.

When you display a node reference, you have the options to display as a title, teaser or body. In order to generate a Google Map, you have to create a View that will load the reference to your Location and display those fields as a GMap

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Inline Messages 1.6 Released

Posted by Jocelyn April 25 '10
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‎Inline Messages‎ allows you to display form messages (error/status/warning) inline with the form instead of the default behaviour at the top of the page (or wherever your theme outputs messages).

Version 1.6 has been release with a few important enhancements.

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Avoiding the Duplicate Content Filter on your Drupal Site

Posted by Jocelyn March 10 '10
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One SEO consideration that can be overlooked is having the same content be accessible by multiple urls on your site. This is called duplicate content and your site can be flagged and disappear from Google or other search engines.

If you're using Drupal with Clean URLs and ‎Pathauto‎, consider the following:

http://www.example.com/blog/2010-03-10
http://www.example.com/node/256

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