Last year, I developed a web app that used Google's appengine. For the front-end, I used Twitter Bootstrap 2.0, with a standard SQL db (via Google's CloudSQL) and some basic jsp and js to support it. Yes, I know that no one actually uses jsp anymore, but it turned out to be pretty efficient since I was using the Java SDK instead of the python one.
If you are the sort of person who enjoys yarnbombing trees and pinning pics of your creative endeavours on a map to share with all and sundry, it was a huge success. I'm one of those people.
I'm also a big fan of code reuse, so I decided to look into reusing some of the elements - modals for site registration and so on.
Turns out you can use Twitter Bootstrap (this is the second time I've typed that word in this post and for some bizarre reason it looks misspelled to me) along with Drupal.
Optional Mission Objective Acquired.
So here is where we stand:
Domain name ✓
ISP (baremetal.com) verfication that Drupal is supported ✓
mySQL db ✓
PHP ✓
Drupal distribution ✓
Bootstrap for Drupal ✓
Next up, I'll review the process I used to previously get mySQL and PHP to behave on my laptop and make sure that everything is still in working order.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Lion, Drupal and PHP: Prolog
So...
For 15+ years, I've had a corner of the web. Actually, I've been a squatter in my friend Merwolf's corner of the web. Every year I said, "self, time to buy your own real estate."
Well, not really. I don't talk to myself - at least not quite like that. The sentiment was accurate even if the conversation isn't. Somewhere along the line, I acquired my own domain, mostly to get a nifty email address that wasn't gmail, or one that managed to allow me precisely one less letter than needed to have my name as my handle.
My content though, stayed on my friend's server, covered by a redirect, protecting me from the need to follow through on redesign and upgrading the html from the early 90s into something more suitable for someone with a degree in maths and cs.
I've done loads for other people, but never quite summoned up the will to spend what scarce free-time I had messing with drupal instead of playing video games. It seemed too much like work.
Today that changes.
And guess what? I'm going to document what I did, what went wrong, how I made it go right and any thing else I deem relavent about the process.
Maybe it will help you - I expect it will definitely be useful for me.
Next post I'll take a look at what my ISP provided, what I need to acquire, and basic configuration.
For 15+ years, I've had a corner of the web. Actually, I've been a squatter in my friend Merwolf's corner of the web. Every year I said, "self, time to buy your own real estate."
Well, not really. I don't talk to myself - at least not quite like that. The sentiment was accurate even if the conversation isn't. Somewhere along the line, I acquired my own domain, mostly to get a nifty email address that wasn't gmail, or one that managed to allow me precisely one less letter than needed to have my name as my handle.
My content though, stayed on my friend's server, covered by a redirect, protecting me from the need to follow through on redesign and upgrading the html from the early 90s into something more suitable for someone with a degree in maths and cs.
I've done loads for other people, but never quite summoned up the will to spend what scarce free-time I had messing with drupal instead of playing video games. It seemed too much like work.
Today that changes.
And guess what? I'm going to document what I did, what went wrong, how I made it go right and any thing else I deem relavent about the process.
Maybe it will help you - I expect it will definitely be useful for me.
Next post I'll take a look at what my ISP provided, what I need to acquire, and basic configuration.
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