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Hosting a drupal instance from a sub-directory (using Apache mod_rewrite)

If you are like me, you are probably adverse to committing any portal or CMS solution to your root directory. You never know when you may want to completely swap to another solution and have that hosted at your root domain. I have found numerous posts, but very few successful answers on how to host Drupal in a sub-directory. If you want to host Drupal in a sub-directory (for example <document root>/drupal), but want to access your Drupal instance at http://www.yourdomain.com (instead of http://www.yourdomain.com/drupal), here is how you do it.

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Submitted by bgoines78 on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 01:06
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Halloween Still Image for "My Life as a Cartoon Character"

My friend Victor started his own personal blog at about the same time that I began this site. Seeing his characters come alive in his comic inspired me to begin some 3D modelling with Blender once again. So far, I have successfully modelled one of his original 2D characters, the father, complete with physics for his clothes and a skeleton so that the character can be posed. I hope to be able to give him some more rendered comics in the future.

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Submitted by bgoines78 on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 17:38
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Alternative OpenID Module for Drupal

Drupal is one of the first OpenSource content management systems to provide support for OpenID in its core. OpenID is a great concept in that it allows users to share a sign-on amongst websites. For many users and website owners alike, this offers a huge advantage in that it overcomes one of the largest hurdles to user registration, users having to maintain yet another login to yet another website. While OpenID has been adopted by many major service providers, the concept of OpenID is still foreign to many users.

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application/x-gtar iconVersion 1.0 of the alternative OpenID module for Drupal.
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Submitted by bgoines78 on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 08:15
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Personal Financial Tracker 1.0 Released

Version 1.0 of the Personal Financial Tracker has been released. The Personal Financial Tracker is an on-line utility designed to assist users in tracking their recurring finances for the purposes of projecting future cash flow. The Personal Financial Tracker is a simple yet effective way to determine if purchases that you make today will cause you financial strain in the future. Simply enter your recurring transactions (income and expenses), then enter your current account balance, and the Personal Financial Tracker will show you 5 years of projected cash flow.

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Submitted by bgoines78 on Sat, 10/17/2009 - 17:12
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Easy Web-based Charts Using Google Charts

Need a quick and easy way to add charts and graphs to your web-based applications? Easy, just give Google Charts a whirl.

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Submitted by bgoines78 on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 23:09
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Crawl, search, and save links on a web site

Sometimes, it may be useful to crawl a site and review all of the links that appear on a site. This capability may be especially useful if you are trying to figure out how your favorite search engine continues to find an obscure URL link that may not have a human readable alias or should be blocked via your Apache configuration or link suppression. The attached script provides exactly that capability. In addition to crawling the links that appear on a site, this script will allow you to save the links retrieved to a file such that you can simply load the saved data rather than crawling the site again for your next query.

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text/plain iconScript to crawl, search, and save links on a web site.
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Submitted by bgoines78 on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 14:35
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RocketFish/Broadcom Bluetooth Adapter on Linux(Ubuntu)

If you purchased a RocketFish USB Bluetooth adapter, you are probably suffering from the same problem that many other users have, namely, the RocketFish USB Bluetooth adapter appears to be configured by the HID module with no apparent Bluetooth support.

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Submitted by bgoines78 on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 21:31
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Genius Pen Tablet F610 on Linux (Ubuntu)

The following tutorial will aid you in setting up your Genius Pen Tablet in Ubuntu Linux. The configuration outlined below configures the tablet to send core events (regular events as if it were a mouse). This means that the tablet will not be constrainted to a single window, but may access the entire active display. On a dual-head configuration,  the pen tablet appears to be constrained to the active screen.

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Submitted by bgoines78 on Fri, 08/07/2009 - 00:57
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Using JavaScript and JQuery to create round block boxes with shadows

There are a plethora of methods available on the Internet for creating boxes with rounded corners. There are quite a few more that explain how to create shadows. This tutorial will show you how to do both using JavaScript, Jquery, and a little bit of CSS. Please note: This tutorial uses PNG images with alpha transparency to create the drop shadows. This effect is incompatible with Internet Explorer prior to version 6. The method for creating round block boxes should be compatible with most modern browsers.

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Submitted by bgoines78 on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 21:46
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Depth of Field effect (aka Focal Blur)

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Focal blur can add a significant amount of realism to any scene. With Blender's support of compositing, creating a focal blur effect can be extremely simple. This video will demonstrate the following steps to create the focal blur effect.

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Create a camera focal point

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Sometimes it may be difficult to position the camera just right to capture a scene the way you want. This tutorial shows you a simple way to force the camera to track an arbitrary object.

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DupliVert demonstration

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DupliVerts can be an effective way to duplicate recurring objects in a scene and may serve as the basis for many interesting effects such as creating raindrops. This tutorial will demonstrate the use of DupliVerts in Blender.

Enabling DupliVerts on an object essentially copies any child objects at each vector on the parent object. This tutorial uses a grid as the parent, but other objects may be used as well such as UVSpheres.

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Use Apache mod_rewrite to redirect image requests through ImageCache

Imagecache is an extremely useful Drupal module. It is especially useful when you want to ensure that images on your site do not wreak havoc on your customized themes and layouts. Fortunately, Apache's mod_rewrite module comes to the rescue.

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Outlines

  • This tutorial will show you how to create outlines.

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Text Impression

  • This tutorial will show you how to create impressions for text or other graphics.

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