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2012 now and I'm migrating to Drupal 7


Welcome to my site!  My interests include software development.using Java, .Net, and Drupal.  I have experience developing ecommerce solutions for businesses. I also develop and host this and other sites for myself and friends, and I enjoy riding and accessorising my Moto.

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Silverlight in Drupal Journey


Build a Silverlight Web application MSDN video discusses binding data to controls, and creating a web service that returns a List. It does not speak of Drupal. The topic is Silverlight Navigation Application

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Amazon RDS Command Line Toolkit


RDS brings with it the promise of MySQL on a Cloud.  When you sign up for Amazon RDS the AWS Management Console shows  the EC2 dashboard.  To understand how to use AWS then download the Getting Started Guide.

There is no GUI for Amazon RDS. 

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Use Amazon S3 Cloudfront to store images


My goal is for Drupal Cloudfront module, integrated with Imagecache module, to serve images from Amazon CloudFront CDN.  The first thing I do is look to README.txt in Drupal module folders.

See Inmagecache at admin/build/imagecache (or look for it at Site Bulding).

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Use Sandcastle to document .Net Assemblies


If you already have Sandcastle then Uninstall it before running this, and check that DXROOT is not stuck as a user environment variable.  The new Sandcastle puts DXROOT as a system environment variable, so remove any user DXROOT if it exists.

Download the latest Sandcastle Help File Builder Guided Installer.  Unzip it and find SandcastleInstaller.exe.

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Drupal teaser thumb and full preview


Swan Neck

I changed the settings on the Story content type to enable Attach Images.  The Teaser image size is Thumbnail, and the Full page image size is Preview.  These are imagecache presets.  Usually the path to create/modify imagecache presets is /admin/settings/image.

Another test of Drupal picking up from my email account


I've removed the extra commands that used to work ok but seem to now become part of the post, so I cleared those commands.

Testing a Blog Post by Email


language:en type:mailblog taxonomy:mailblog promote:1 format:3

I sent this email to sms@markcox.net.  Then, on cron, it got picked up and posted as a blog post.