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As a Drupal developer you might have come across a Drupal multisite installation in which the different sites were connected through symlinks. As a developer you often need to create a local installation of a live Drupal project to make the required changes before pushing it to the live version of a site. If you are facing the same situation in your Drupal site and would like to know how to create a local installation of a Drupal multisite project connected through symlinks then continue reading to know more.

We are offering summer internships for MBA students at Zyxware for the 2013 summer break. Internships are available specifically in the areas of Market Research, HR Process Audit and Costing & Pricing. Interested applicants please send your C.V and a covering letter to [email protected] with subject line: MBA Internship - 2013. The last date to receive applications for this internship program is January 31, 2013.

Suppose you have a checkbox in a Drupal webform that needs to be validated before submitting the form. You may be familiar with Drupal form validation but you can add validation using Javascript too. If you have a Drupal form in your Drupal website and want to know how to add Javascript validation to a checkbox to a Drupal form then read on

A large number of websites on the web today have some kind of slideshow in them and they are probably using a library like jQuery to create the slide effect. When there are 10 images cycling in a slideshow, you might want to shuffle the order of the slideshow a bit. If you have a slideshow in your Drupal website and want to know how to change the order of the slideshow on every pageload then continue reading to know more.

Did you know that year 2013 is the first year after 1987 which had all its digits as distinct. Did you know that Oct 1582 had 10 days removed from the month to adjust for the shift in the year? Did you know that Sumerians had calendars way back in 4000BC?. Here are some interesting pieces of information about the history of calendars.

Zyxware recently conducted a session on GIMP for dentists. The workshop was conducted on the 17th of December, 2012. This was as part of a workshop organised by Indian Dental Association for their members on photography and photo editing. Zyxware conducted a 4 hour session on photo editing using GIMP, a Free Software Tool. Photography and photo editing are important skills for the modern day dentist given the requirements of documentation and research and communication with patients. Recognising the need for training for dentists in these areas, the IDA has taken an important step by organising this workshop. That they have chosen Free Software Tools like GIMP is commendable.

The function of the script is to rename a specific-directory present under all sub-directories of a specified parent folder. Consider, you have a particular folder under all sub-directories of a folder and you want to rename all of those occurrences. Doing it manually would take much time. Here is a script to make it easy for you. The script takes the following inputs: 'path' is the absolute path of the parent folder, and 'foldername.txt' is a text file which contains the names of the subdirectories under each of which the specific directory has to be renamed.