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Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture for CodeCharge developers
CodeCharge Studio is a nice web-development RAD tool. But it offers a rather specific code, which is more of web 1.0 code. What I want to tell is that code architecture of modern frameworks (CodeIgniter, Zend, CakePHP etc) and code generated by CodeC...
Why invest into Drupal?
In my real-life experience, there have been cases where selection of Open Source technologies versus technologies of big closed source players was a tough choice, but eventually helped companies save thousands of dollars. This is just a general con...
Protecting Mosets Tree catalog with ajax-based Captcha
One of the most popular Joomla components is a catalog components called Mosets Tree. But to keep this catalog open for anonymous posters, providing quick access, one often needs to protect "Add Listing" page. Unfortunately, Mosets Tree component doe...
Drupal: user-friendly SEF links in Tagadelic module
Drupal users often compain that Tagadelic module, while displaying nice tags clouds, still provides direct links to tag categories which contain tags numbers, not tag names. This is not terribly good for search engine optimization. So I created a sol...
Search functionality in Drupal
If you want to enable search functionality in Drupal somewhat beyond Search module, here are basic options that you will most likely arrive at. I hope they will make the picture of how to implement search in Drupal more clear for you: Faceted Searc...
Master Drupal faster with Drupal-Builder
I am developing an interesting service - http://drupal-builder.net - which I hope will help novice Drupal CMS developers speed up their learning in some ways. Essentially, it's online site builder where one can select from the list of top Drupal modu...

