Articles
On this page, you will find links to articles written by the staff of Poplar ProductivityWare, many of which include programming samples that you can use in your own web sites and programs. We hope you find them useful, enlightening, or both.
Please contact us if you have any suggestions for articles, and check back often to see our latest free offerings.
Our Articles
Drupal
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Tutorial on how to create a custom CCK field that incorporates an image, caption, and taxonomy term into one compound field.
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Video tutorial on how to use CCK and Views to create custom content types for a Drupal site.
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Tutorial on how to build a Drupal-based web site.
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Screencast on how to use the Drupal project issue queues to contribute to Drupal.
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How to decide whether to use Drupal or WordPress for your next web project.
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Presentation at 2012 Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit about mistakes commonly made by Drupal programmers.
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How to decide between different methods for searching Drupal sites.
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Resources for teaching an Introduction to Drupal class.
Other Web Programming and Internet
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Tutorial on setting up Apache .htaccess files for password protection and custom error pages.
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Suggestions for how to avoid receiving junk email, including web page programming samples in JavaScript and Perl.
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Basic CSS tutorial, for web developers who are familiar with HTML.
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Our favorite resources related to Web technology and Web programming, including web site content management and blogging software.
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What technology is behind various types of interactive web sites.
Non-Web Software Development
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Difficulties encountered with a Linux installation, and solutions.
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Our favorite Web and print resources related to software development, in the non-web sphere.
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How to set up robust backups for a cluster of Ubuntu Linux machines.
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Introduction to these three communications protocols and how to implement them in Java.
Business
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Video of a panel discussion at DrupalCon San Francisco on best practices for Drupal freelancers.
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A brief discussion of business networking, with lists of organizations and calendars for business networking in the Seattle area.
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Guides to the skills you will need, what to charge, how to get clients, record keeping, and taxes; focused on doing business in Seattle, Washington.
