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With the introduction of the CSRF Token a few months ago, service calls in Drupal need to pass along that token for certain resources. Using FireFox Poster, we can pass along this token to easily test and debug our services.

Here's an example to pass along the token for a simple article node creation.

With Drupal and Views, we are able to configure a View's settings and import/export them across Drupal sites. This allows us to create backup copies of our View's settings and/or move a View between Drupal sites with relative ease.

Typically this is a manual process by using the Views UI to copy the "export" code string from one site:

http://dev.example.com/admin/structure/views/view/frontpage/export

..and then paste the string into the "import" form on another site:

This tutorial describes how to get Addictive Drums working in Ubuntu 12.04. Rock and roll, no time to fiddle...

TuxGuitar is amazing, and its open source! However, in Ubuntu the default soundbank doesn't sound as good as what is available out there. Let's make it sound better with more realistic sound (a.k.a. Real Sound Engine)...

In a terminal window, use these two commands to install the Fluid Soundfonts:

sudo apt-get install fluid-soundfont-gm
sudo apt-get install fluid-soundfont-gs

If these terminal commands don't work, then you can use the Synaptic Package Manager to install them.

Use this handy PHP snippet to split a string by commas and new line characters.

// Replace all the new lines with commas, then split (explode) by comma to get each part of the string.
$input = $my_string_with_commas_and_new_lines;
$input = preg_replace("/((\r?\n)|(\r\n?))/", ',', $input);
$pieces = explode(',', $input);
foreach($pieces as $part) {
  print($part);
}

There you have it, tride and true, just for you.

Use this terminal command to copy your public key to the list of authorized keys on a remote server:

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub foo@bar.com

That will copy your public key into the list of authorized keys on the remote server:

~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Now when you SSH in to the remote server, you won't have to enter your password:

ssh foo@bar.com

Be careful. Roger that.

Today I stumbled upon the need to do something I've never done before in Drupal. I needed a hook to run some custom code when a View was deleted. First, I checked out the list of Views Hooks and didn't find any hooks that appeared to be able to get the job done.

After a bit of Googling and chatting in #drupal-support on IRC, I was directed to this old closed issue. From my understanding, the delete hook doesn't exist and it  sounds like it won't be existing anytime soon. What can we do? Well never fear, Drupal is here.

With PhoneGap 2.9.0 (Cordova), while trying to compile in xCode to build a mobile application for release, I receive this error:

Apple Mach-O Linker Error - Linker command failed with exit code 1

To fix this problem, this worked for me in xCode: