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If you frequently have to set up git version control system for existing projects then you would very likely run into the problem of having to remove files, which should not have been in git, from git after they were added. Running a git rm will only delete the file from the head and the file would still remain in the repository. This may be alright for small files but this could be troublesome for large files as these would unnecessarily bloat the git repository. But don't worry git being a 'swiss army knife' of version control systems there is a solution to delete files permanently from both your local and remote git repositories.

We had recently conducted a session on Drupal at FOSSMeet 2014 at NIT, Calicut. The session was on introducing Drupal as a Rapid Application Development (RAD) Framework for Startups. The session was aimed at young entrepreneurs who are looking to take their next big idea online. The following presentation was used for the workshop.

What do you do if you have to take your Drupal site into maintenance mode from the command line? Well you can do this easily if you have drush set up on your server. With drush you can do quite a lot powerful drupal administration tasks right from the command line. In Drupal 6 The following drush command will take your Drupal site offline drush vset site_offline 1 The following drush command will take your Drupal site back online drush vdel site_offline In Drupal 7

I am assuming that you have root access on the server without which the following instructions won't work. First you have to cd to the directory corresponding to your mailing list. All mailing list settings will be kept at /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists/

On one of our recent Drupal projects we came across an issue where the file browse button was not triggering the file selection dialog in IE10 in Windows 8. The problem was diagnosed to be the result of jquery not getting the click event from the button. The site was using jquery 1.44 and this problem is supposed to be fixed in later versions of jquery.

There are times when we sit back and look at the road travelled so far. With a sense of humility and gratitude to those who have made this possible. The Zyxware story would not have been possible without the contributions of its people, its well wisher community, especially the Free Software community in Kerala, our clientele, our bankers, families of people who have worked with us and many more. We take a moment to acknowledge and thank each of them as we set our eyes on bigger goals and gather the conviction to move forward.

This is a white paper on guesstimation of per employee revenue in the SME space in the Indian IT industry. This was prepared during the process of evaluation of our billing rates to compare our rates with the market standards.

Those of you who have been regularly visiting this site would have started seeing small changes in the site related to how it integrates with social media sites. I have been experimenting on how to increase the interactions between us and the visitors on the site as well as between visitors on the site. This is still a work in progress but I wanted to share with you some of the things I have changed on the site

In this article I am going to tell you how to redirect anonymous users to a login form on 403 access denied pages in Drupal. There are some contributed module that provides you this feature but, if you really want to create a custom one for your site just try this. Here I will show you a PHP snippet that redirecting to login page for anonymous users on access denied.

I have a few images in a folder on a Drupal site I was recently working on. The Drupal site also had a content type that contained a title and an image field and I had a requirement to create a node for each of these images. Read on to find out how to add a file to the image field of a node programmatically in Drupal 6.