CiviCRM Bounce Processing Using SES
Amazon SES bounce process for CiviCRM using IMAP. Redirect your bounce messages to an e-mail address and then use this to process that. Very useful.
Category: Coding
Drupal – chaging the content of $node through hook_node_view
Drupal has hooks, one of then is called hook_node_view which allows you to inject variables into your node templates.
Drupal – Setting multiple flags using hook_flag_flag
Drupal has a great flag module that is able to flag pieces of content. Sometimes you want one flag to be able to set other flags as well. Drupal provides a hook for whenever an item is flagged. This hook can’t easily be used to flag an item beacuse each time you attempt to flag […]
Why WordPress is a winner
Etopian Inc. critically analyzed all the best publishing and blogging platform out there and we have decided that WordPress is still the winner. For us this wasn’t a big surprise, we have been using WordPress for over 6 years and in that time it has definitely come out on top for us more often than […]
Drupal node_save action firing in a hook (gotcha)
Recently while developing a website for a client I ran into this issue which is so simple, yet the effects so devastating. First a bit of background. I was trying to use a hook that is fired by an existing action to update some fields on the same node after the action has occurred. This […]
Useful elements of modern web design for website owners
We know that every website owner requires hands-on involvement with their web sites. That’s why we develop our websites on publishing platforms in such a way that they are easy to use and to edit. Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla are typical tools we use, and we use these tools in such a way that it […]
Drupal – Howto call CiviCRM API from a Drupal 6 or 7 module
A simple tutorial about how you might go about calling CiviCRM API from a Drupal module.
Open Source CMS – WordPress vs. Joomla! vs. Drupal
WordPress, Drupal and Joomla are the three most well known content management system (CMS) applications that are commonly used by web developers today. These applications are essential for the design and development of websites and blogs. The three are free, open source software which can be used forever without paying a licensing fee to any […]
Choosing a distributed revision control host
We have been using github recently to host our code — being able to manage our code using version control is incredibly useful for a number of reasons. I also have been hosting a git repository on a virtual server. We have felt the need to move everything to github, but have felt their pricing […]
Effective clean way to initialize Sequelize as an object
Sequelize is an ORM for Node.js that I have decided to use in a project. I, like most of my fellow programmers, generally like cleaner code and in this case I found a pretty damn good way to initialize it and keep the initializing functions separate from rest of the code. Further, I structured it so that it was very easy to use it as well.