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Introduction to Twitter Bootstrap Theme

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Technical Solution | 2 min read
Bootstrap, a powerful mobile-first front-end framework which incorporates faster and easier development features to the web development platform. Bootstrap is sleek, intuitive and it uses HTML, CSS and Javascript. We can build responsive Drupal themes using Twitter Bootstrap V3. It gives a basic idea of implementing bootstrap theme.
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Relevance of Penetration Testing

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Testing | 3 min read
Penetration testing is a type of security testing. It is mainly used to find all the vulnerability that are present in the system being tested. Vulnerabilities usually occurs during software development and implementation phase. Usually Vulnerabilities will be design errors, configuration errors, bugs etc.
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[Drupal] Power Packed features of Drupal 8

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
Drupal 8 is new version of Drupal. It is very different from All old Drupal versions. There are lots of new feature in Drupal 8. As you know Drupal8 is based on symphony framework. Are you excited to know what's new in Drupal 8? I have listed out some features below:
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[Drupal] How to use Drupal queue in custom module?

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
The createItem() method lets you add data to the queue and the numberOfItems() method lets you see how many items are present in the queue. We use the claimItem() method of the queue object to get an item from the queue. claimItem() returns the data property, which contains whatever we put into the queue. If there is no item in the queue then claimItem() will return FALSE. Steps for creating queue.
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[Drupal] How to use Drupal Queue Classes ?

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
The Queue API in Drupal is designed to manage tasks.The queue system allows placing items in a queue and processing them later.The Queue API is a simple,reliable way to keep track huge lists of tasks without requiring you to know anything about the whole group.Prepare your data, put it in one item at a time, and take back one item at a time to process. When you are done with a single item, just report back that you have finished and the item is removed from the queue.
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[Drupal] How to migrate Drupal 7 themes to Drupal 8 ?

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Drupal Technical | 2 min read
In Drupal 8, .info file is converted to .info.yml file. It is a symphony component. The .info.yml file contains the metadata about your theme, such as theme name, description, version of the Drupal it supports, and type. Type is new metadata type indicate type of the extension such as module, theme etc.
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Tips to write high-quality content

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Impact Services | 5 min read
High-quality, original content plays an important role in improving search engine rankings and driving more traffic to your website. In case of content duplication, Google would penalize your website. A website with well-written content not only enhances your site’s rankings but also has a very positive influence on your business.
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How to use handy git tools?

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Technical Solution | 6 min read
Git is a version control system which is distributed and is famous for its speed and efficiency. Git is different from its predecessors in so many ways, it handles the data as snapshots rather than file differences. Also almost all the operations in git is done at the local repository thus called distributed. Since all the operations are local it gives the power of speed to the end user.However more than this git also provides some tools which makes the git usage more easier and also increases the user friendliness.
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[Drupal] How to show a form in popup?

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Drupal Technical | 5 min read
This tutorial shows you how to insert a form into a modal so it pops up on your site after a user clicks a link, without having to write any JavaScript at all. The functionality that supplies this is the CTools module and core ajax functionality in Drupal 7.
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Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 Migration step 4 - Drupal 6 contrib major version update

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Drupal Solution | 5 min read
After the core update, the site will definitely be malfunctioning as expected, as long as it isn't WSOD, you're fine! Ignore it and move forward with the migration process. If you were using a custom theme, then in all probability your site will appear broken because your theme was designed for Drupal 6 and the core is now Drupal 7. If you were using custom or contrib modules to display content or blocks the same would happen because the modules are disabled and still Drupal 6.
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Most common hooks that are used in drupal 6 and drupal 7

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Technical Solution | 5 min read
1. hook_init() It gets called at the beginning of a page request (but after the modules and themes are loaded into memory) and it?s typically used to set global parameters that may be needed in the request. One thing to note about it is that it is not run on cached pages. 2. hook_views_api() hook_views_api() is not a Drupal core hook but one from the Views module .It is used to register Views API information (including the necessary files for Views) usually for implementing hook_views_default_views().
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[Drupal] How to create a new parser in Feed API module?

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Drupal Technical | 3 min read
The feedAPI module is a famous one for processing custom feeds in different formats like rss/Atom, csv, iCal etc. Now the feedAPI has been upgraded to the "feeds",which have more features and easy to use and customize. However still a lot of Drupal 6 sites uses the feedAPI module for handling external feeds. Let us see how a new parser can be created in feed API module.
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