matt glaman

Just like my article for Drupal Commerce FedEx, I am writing up a quick run-through for Drupal Commerce USPS.

Drupal uses a cron to take care of clean up tasks, as well as utilizing certain features. By default Drupal executes its cron run every three hours based on a user visit. This causes the cron to be executed over HTTP. Depending on the generally it can be more efficient to execute your Drupal cron directly through PHP command line on the server side versus HTTP.

One thing that I has always bothered about WordPress widgets is the lack of ability to define custom widget CSS classes for each widget - it is kind of ugly using the stock widget IDs when you have four text widgets.

I finally got my first codepen.io account, and created some CSS Facebook Chat heads. You can check out the pen, and play around with it.

I migrate a lot of WordPress installs from a localhost to the beta server and then to production. It's easy enough to update the URLs in _options and guids in _posts, but the one thing that irritated the hell out of me was the rewrite rules.

MySQL command line allows you to manage your database environment through your terminal, or command prompt for Windows. Typically when you set up a web server you would have installed MySQL as its own service and can easily access the MySQL command line via mysql (mysql.exe).

Over the weekend a new module for Drupal Commerce came out - Commerce Point of Sale. This is an extremely exciting release and brings a whole new front for Drupal Commerce.

There is a new proposed "standard" rumbling around the 'nets on how to provide an up-to-date logo for a brand using the <link> tag.  The goal is to provide outside websites, applications, readers, and whatever else the Internet may bring with an always up to date logo. Think of it as your favicon for browsers, our the apple-touch-icon.

CSS floats are on the list of known limitations of dompdf, an HTML to PDF converter. The latest beta, dompdf Beta 3, adds the beginnings of CSS float support and is turned off by default.

Apparently by default git has a limit for max upload files. We build our test sites locally, push to git and then deploy to a beta site. That means there can be a bit of data being transferred, especially in a site with PDFs.