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If you are a Drupal developer, you would often encounter a situation where your Drupal module needs to create a custom table automatically when enabled. If you are new to Drupal, Checkout How to create your own Drupal module to know how to do it. Drupal provides you this option using hook_schema. Read on to know how to use hook_schema in your Drupal module .

You might think what is the big deal if your Drupal site performs badly.To put it simply, if the performance of your site is poor,you will lose a lot of potential customers. So, one of the core aspects of a Drupal website is its performance. We had worked on a Drupal site that had several blocks. To enhance the site's performance, one of the steps we had taken was to set up a time base caching for all blocks. Are you curious to know how we did this? Read ahead.

In one of the Drupal projects I was working on, the site had a content type with a field image which had multiple number of values for that field. We were required to create a separate slide show for each content of this content type. Using the jQuery Cycle plugin, you can create the slide show quite easily. Read on to know more

Boost is one of the most widely used Drupal modules designed for static page caching. It creates html files for Drupal pages.When an anonymous user visits the page for the first time, boost generates an html page and then serves the html directly to the other anonymous users of the site, till the page cache expires, which increases the performance of the site for anonymous users, as everything is handled at the Apache level. Nevertheless, there will be situations where boost might not cache a page. Read on to know if you have faced a similar problem.

When we combine different CSV files using ‘cat’ command, the resulting CSV file contain repeating headers. This usually happens when we combine different CSV files having the same headers. Let us check a simple method to remove the repeating headers in Libre office - Calc document.

In Ubuntu, new applications are usually available as deb packages. Although Ubuntu comes packaged with gui package management tools like synaptic, the command line provides a much faster way. Read on to know how to manage deb packages in Ubuntu from the command line using apt-cache.

FSF-CiviCRM is a popular Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. The first step in getting started is understanding the CiviCRM codebase. For better understanding, please download CiviCRM zip file from https://civicrm.org/download and install.

We had just completed switching our site from Windows IIS MySQL PHP to LAMP environment. As the deployment was via git, we downloaded project files with the ftp credentials and deployed the site via git. However, the 'sites/default/files' folder were of some GBs in size. We only had ftp credentials and was unable to get a compressed copy due to certain reasons. What we did to resolve the problem was use wget command to copy files recursively.

Zyxware Technologies has developed and contributed CiviWCI (CiviCRM Widget Creation Interface) to the Free Software Foundation to assist in the fund raising campaign that FSF is launching in Dec 2014. The extension is expected to help FSF create “Donate Now” and “Join Now” widgets (fund raising and newsletter subscription) that can be embedded on any site that wishes to support FSF. This extension will replace the earlier widget system used by FSF. Through this contribution, Zyxware once again reaffirms its commitment to Free Software and the community around Free Software.

One of the requirements of the client was to play video in the pop-up window instead of playing it in Iframe. We accomplished this by adding overlay div over Iframe, which would suppress the ability of Iframe to play video. Read on to know how we did it.