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Javascript date parsing and formatting

Handy functions for parsing and formatting Javascript dates:

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2005/12/20/javascript-date-parsing/ 

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Javascript

Useful hints and tips involving Javascript.
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Testing browser string

Finally getting back to working on the old browscap module, and needed to ape a particular browser string. I found this article on configuring Safari and Firefox to accomplish this:

Spoofing the User Agent with Safari or Firefox

So, first I do the command using Safari's actual browser string, so I can easily revert to it later:

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Web server-generated email under MAMP

Developing on my MacBook, with the MAMP stack installed, attempts by any of my local Drupal sites to send email out to a Drupal user (say, a new account notification) go into the local mail queue and get stuck there. /var/log/mail.log shows  "Operation timed out" errors from Postfix, whether sending to an account on my webhost or my Gmail account. telnet to port 25 (using a couple different hosts) also fails with "Operation timed out".

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SVN

As a first step, I simply want to use SVN to track changes in my local development environment. Simple step-by-step instructions are lacking on drupal.org, but Nick Sergeant's blog got me started:

  1. svnadmin create repos

References:

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Theming node add/edit forms

Here's the reference: http://drupal.org/node/101092

Will report back on my experience...

 

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Coding tips

Recipes for particular tasks when doing Drupal development.

 

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Semantic Web/RDF

For now, a list of resources:

Semantic Web

RDF

Semantic Web Drupal group 

RDF Module

 

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Eclipse

Now trying Eclipse as my Drupal development environment... Starting with Rob Loach's approach:

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