The steps below will allow you to restrict the US States that a user can pick from when checking out in Ubercart. This was useful for me when a client needed to restrict shipping bottles of wine to various states that don't allow that sort of thing.

Source: http://www.ubercart.org/forum/support/11620/limit_us_states_list_48_cont...

A really dumb issue in Windows 7 popped up on my dad's computer recently and took quite some time to fix. I was migrating some files across the network from his old laptop to his new laptop and bam -- suddenly explorer windows disappeared, all icons on the dock turned into white, and trying to run any program (including cmd, notepad, regedit, regsvr32, control panel, etc.) or open a new explorer windows gave me errors like this:

No such interface supported.

The parameter is incorrect.

People in every sector of the web development community have heard of or use Google Analytics. It's a full fledged, corporate-level web traffic analyzer. It gives great insight into your content popularity, visitor characteristics, and more, and has some very cool (and easy to setup) reporting abilities. Being a fan of the open-source world and a generally "stay away from the man" minded user, I'm always trying out low-cost / no-cost alternatives to the big guns. In this case Google Analytics is free, but.. still. They are a giant.

My rss feeds in a Drupal install were showing an invalid character name error in Internet Explorer and were forcing a file download / save file dialogue in Firefox and others. I couldn't get them to display in-browser like they should have and couldn't figure out the issue!
 

I'm sure there are more reasons than just this, but it may come in handy to those that run into a 500 server error after enabling new modules or content-types.

Open up your .htaccess file and comment out "Options +FollowSymLinks" by adding a # in front of this line. Save, upload, and refresh your page.

Additionally, forcing php5 instead of version 4 may help this. You can do so by adding

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

to your .htaccess file.

I use a neat semi-solution. Check your account settings @ evernote.com and look for your evernote email address. If you're not aware of this feature -- it allows you to send an email to an address you have been assigned; it will store that as a note in your evernote, setting the subject as the note name and the body as the note contents. If you assign this email address as a shortcut on your BlackBerry, you can hit that button to send a note to your evernote acct from your blackberry, and it's a hell of a lot easier than using browser and logging in to your account to send notes...

I'm sure there are great arguments for starting out with nothing but core modules, and I'm sure there are even better arguments for every installation having all 32 of your favorites. This post, however, will outline a handful of modules to extend a basic Drupal 6.10 package into something that ought to have everything a client's website will need. This includes hands-free SEO, dynamic blogging capabilities, URLs-that-make-sense, and a handful of others. This is ideal, in this designers opinion, for most website needs.

A current project has had me setting up a large database and community driven site for a client. We're using Drupal 6 because of it's stability, features, extensibility, etc., as well as its great user and community-contributed content. One of the key requirements of this site is the ability to search through large amounts of pre-existing data, most of which are in PDF format. Off to find a proper module for extending Drupal's core search..

You may have some basic functionality of htaccess for Apache 2 in Leopard, but you won't be able to have any of the useful features (files, filematch, mod_rewrite, etc). To enable an override of htaccess you'll need to edit 2 config files. Launch Terminal and....

sudo pico /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
(enter your password when prompted)

A quick note - if you need to connect to a Windows system (nt, xp, server, 2000, vista) via RDP, you may be a bit out of luck. The Microsoft remote desktop client for Mac is not universal and may not run on some more modern OSX systems. One alternative is to install TSClientX, a terminal services client for OSX. This is a nice app, but running under Darwine can be a pain sometimes when you need a quick connection. Try grabbing a copy of CoRD instead - http://cord.sourceforge.net/ - a free, fast, and seemingly stable RDP client.