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Mysteriously disappearing Drupal search fields

The problem I was having was that I had a search field which showed up when I was logged in as admin, but not when I hit the site anonymously (as an aside, one of the benefits of using multiple browsers is that you can save admin user/pass on one, and keep another for testing). I looked through both the tpl files and the database and didn't see any reason why this should be happening.

Back from Drupalcamp Chicago

Had a great time. I've been to a fair number of cons, but this is my first "camp". I liked the intimacy of it. We took up just four conference rooms, and there were a few hundred people attending, rather than the thousands you get swarming convention centers at the shindigs that I'm used to. But it was still attended by some fairly heavy hitters and the sessions were very enlightening. I highly recommend Drupalcamp Chicago to anyone who might be thinking of attending next year, and more broadly I recommend camps, maybe even over cons. They are certainly more affordable.

Installing SSH on Bluehost

I found this very useful forum post on setting up subversion on Bluehost: http://www.bluehostforum.com/showthread.php?t=12099 But, I wasn't able to get it to work either with the original version numbers and dependencies, or with the most up to date. After a little monkeying about, here are the commands which worked for me. Of course, YMMV.

One To Do List

I've tried a lot of different computerized systems for managing my task list, but I find that nothing beats one single 8 1/2" x 11" sheet of paper for capturing the top of the stack, next actions.   For the last few weeks I got a little lazy and allowed my next actions list to grow into four sheets of paper, and the loss in my personal efficiency, as well as my sense of control, was shocking.  For me at least, I really do have to be disciplined and keep it down to one page.   If I have too many tasks to fit on one page (of course I do!), then I really need think hard and put tasks that don't n

Multi-blog solutions: WPMU or WP-Hive?

Some years ago, I first started to kick around with Wordpress Multi-User, aka WPMU. In the last few months, I've been exposed to the most excellent plug-in WP-Hive. At first glance, these two seem to do the same thing: allow you to host multiple wordpress blogs on one installation -- one codebase and one database. And both products are excellent.

A non-intuitive technique for implementing wildcard DNS on CPanel

I've been playing around with Wordpress MU for some time now, but always using the option for installing each blog on its own subdirectory (for example, http://www.example.com/foo/), rather than each blog sitting on its own subdomain (for example, http://foo.example.com).
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