Alex Weber

On the 19th and 20th of April São Paulo is finally getting the Drupal love it deserves!

This event has been long in the works and is being regarded by many as the natural sucessor to the DrupalCon that never happened.

I recently had to prevent a user from selecting past dates using a Date module date popup widget. Turns out that this is really simple to do in the jQuery UI widget, using the minDate option.

I admit that this is a bit of an unusual problem but please humour me for the time being: say you're developing a somewhat custom Drupal website and you happen to have a couple content types and each one obviously has a bunch of fields. Now let's assume that for the sake of UX or because some designer dude thought it would be nice that you want to break up the node edit form into different pages and use tabs to navigate through different sections of the node form and edit them individually.

So you already know all about Drush and Features, good for you!

Using Features is a critical tool to create maintainable websites and makes pushing configuration changes between server environments really easy and Drush is a Drupal developer's best friend.

Zentropy started off as a Basic fork back in the Drupal 6 days and that version lives to this day in GitHub. It was officially published a year and a half ago and was one of the first Drupal 7 base themes to support HTML5. It has since gained a small but loyal following!

Since having moved to Mac from Linux around 1 year ago I have been using MAMP to develop with Drupal. I actually bought the PRO version and my favorite MAMP features are:

• Easy creation of Virtual Hosts
• Easy switching between PHP 5.2 and 5.3

That said, there are some major annoyances with MAMP:

If you're serious about Drupal development, you probably use Drush and Features. If you do use Drush and Features, you will likely have caught yourself wishing to the Drupal Gods for the ability to automatically increment or set a feature's version number when updating it.