I usually use linux, but for various reasons I've needed to use windows lately and so I figured I would setup Xdebug, Acquia Dev Desktop, and Netbeans in Windows.  I didn't see much for guides out there but its really pretty easy.

Step 1 - Install Acquia Dev Desktop:

You can install either the D6 or D7 one, because really they are the same and you can just add D6/7/yourflavor to it using its "import" button. ...Read more...

I've started using Amazon EC2 with Aegir's multiple server setup and its sweeeet.  I can add a new server to my Aegir setup in like 2 minutes.

My bash script

Here is the script: http://pastebin.com/hHnTDtzs

I've tested this script with ami-3e02f257.   These are its specs:

• Ubuntu 10.04
• 32bit
• EBS Store (allows this to be "micro" compatable and easy to backup/clone.)

I don't see why the script wouldn't work with x64... I just didn't test that.

What it does

You can read through the script and see all the commads that it does but here is a quick summary:

• Runs apt-get update and upgrade
• Installs everything you need plus git and nano
• Forces php to be 5.2 rather than 5.3 using approach #3 here.
• Does almost everything you need to do in the manual aegir install for using the server as an slave host.  Sets memory limits, comments bind-address, creates aegir user, creates aegir_root mysql user, etc...
• Installs pecl uploadprogress
• Installs Dru
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I ran into an issue yesterday where Hierarchical Select (along with Content Taxonomy and CCK) wasn't saving the data I selected.  But this happened only after I switched my development site to go live.

I started back tracing through HS (hierachical select) and noticed it was looking for #field_info inside $form.... but it wasn't their.  So then I checked CCK and noticed that it was being loaded way way after HS.

Then I checked weight... they had the same weight... confusing. ...Read more...

I just upgraded 2 of my systems to alpha 14 and here are a couple of things I stumbled with:

Rename your vhost.conf files

I copied my old vhost files from ~/config/vhost.d to ~/config/server_master/apache/vhost.d.  I'm not sure if I was suposed to do that or if I was to reverify all the platforms and it would maybe recreate them in the right place... I dont know.  But my way worked.

Since all the new sites come in as mysite.com rather than mysite.com_80 (old way), I wanted to rename everything so it looked the same.  I ran this command ...Read more...