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The new version of the ScribeFire Firefox extension integrates image uploading to Drupal based blogs. This is great! I'm using fewer photos and images than I should, purely because my previous methods were awkward (through the Drupal web interface).
A while ago I was looking for a blogging tool, something I could use to avoid my blog's web interface. I tried a few, and was briefly hooked by Drivel, but eventually found my way back to Drupal's builtin.
Back then I tried ScribeFire also, and was disappointed by either my inability to configure, or it's lack of support for Drupal image uploads. Now it works!
ScribeFire also helps you to promote your post, with quick links to submit your post (or a review of your post) at Mahalo, Propeller, Reddit, Facebook, Digg, Ma.gnolia, Fark, StumbleUpon and/or Newsvine.

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This afternoon I ran into a bizarre little quirk. Probably becaue I was recompiling my php/apache to use the threaded worker-mpm, and nuked some sessions by mistake.

Problem: Couldn't log in to my drupal page (my juicydata account).

Symptoms: Thrown back to the current page, as if the 'User login' button has no effect.

Solution: Delete cookies, login works.

It'd be nice if there was some kinda indication to the user that something's wrong here.. I was using firefox when I ran across this.

A ferris wheel:

I still haven't found a good way to upload images to this blogspacearena. TinyMCE + IMCE kinda works, and img-assist / img attach seem to work, but it all seems a bit fiddly. I think I'll stick with img_assist for now, as it creates pages for the images also.

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Google sitemap has changed it's name, to XML Sitemap, and apparently supports: Google, Yahoo!, WindowsLive and Ask.

Download your required version from the XML Sitemap project website [1], and untarball it in your sites/all/modules directory. Make sure you've got your access permissions correct here.

Head to Administer->Site Building->Modules, and enable XML Sitemap modules:

1. XML Sitemap
2. XML Sitemap: Engines
3. XML Sitemap: Node
4. XML Sitemap: Term

I don't have many users, so I've skipped the user profiles sitemap.

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Recipe: Drupal WYSIWYG editing using TinyMCE:

1. Download TinyMCE from sourceforge
2. Download TinyMCEDrupal module from drupal.org
3. Unpack the module into your drupal inst
4. Enable TinyMCE in Administer->Site building
5. Unzip tinymce_version.zip into the TinyMCE modules' directory. Should look like modules/tinymce/tinymce
   • Make sure you get the correct version! 2.1 for me.
6. Configure TinyMCE in Administer->Site configuration
7. Follow the prompts, and you're done.

Tricks:

Set FullHTML as default Input format.

Administer the TinyMCE module and check lots of the options, for a full-bodied aroma.

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OK, So I'm a little sick of this plain text, and if anyone were reading, they'd probably also be tiring of the non pretty text. As much as a blog-client, standalone, is novel, interesting and useful, it's really necessary that my site has full editing capabilities itself.

Go to tinymce.moxiecode.com, hit download and get the:Main package, Compressor package (PHP for me) and the Spellchecker.

Go to the tinymce drupal module page, and grab the adaptor module:
http://drupal.org/project/tinymce

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ScribeFire, BloGTK, Nanoblogger.
I've only scratched the surface with these two clients, there's plenty more I haven't yet tried.
Keywords here are: BloGTK , ScribeFire , Nanoblogger , blogAPI + drupal.
$ emerge --search blog
These two caught my attention (others looked fun, but masked or not xfce-friendly, or emacs-based (I'm a vi man) ).
* net-misc/blogtk
Latest version available: 1.0
Size of files: 51 kB
Homepage: http://blogtk.sourceforge.net
Description: GTK Blog - post entries to your blog
License: BSD
* www-apps/nanoblogger
Homepage: http://nanoblogger.sourceforge.net/
Description: Small and simple weblog engine written in Bash for the command-line
First of all, nanoblogger. Not what I'm looking for. Nanoblogger looks like a simple way to write blogs/blogposts/publish these to it's own blog (e.g. $USER/public_html/

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OK.
Step 1, install OS. Step 3, make money.
Step 2 is: Configure development server, testing server, production server. Road test platforms, personalize things (branding naming looknfeel). Post content. Establish reputation. Establish readership / co-production relationships. Earn money from advertising and tie-ins.
Step 2 sounds big.
Let's just add AdWords support to my half-assed drupal site, and call it a day!
Pre-requisites: drupal.
Post-condition: drupal+adwords installed and configured.
We need:
Drupal AdSense: http://www.drupal.org/project/adsense
and
Drupal AdSense Injector: http://drupal.org/project/adsense_injector
untar/gunzip these in your site's modules directory.
Verification Point: They should now turn up in your Administration panel, in SiteBuilding->Modules.
Enable these, and any of their dependencies.

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I'm pretty new to Gentoo (maybe 1 week or so), but getting drupal up and running was completely straightforward.
I was searching for a CMS, have never tried drupal, and it sounds about what I need.
I visited drupal.org, noticed that v 5.5 is the preferred, ran:
$echo "web-apps/drupal ~x86" >> /etc/portage/packages.keywords
$emerge -pv drupal
and portage reported v 5.3 only. So, I had to learn emerge --sync :)
$emerge --sync
$emerge -pv drupal
$sudo emerge -av drupal
I had www-config installed previously, and immediately after the drupal emerging above finished, I could visit:
http://127.0.0.1/drupal/
Setup a mysql db and account for drupal
$mysqladmin create drupal_db -uroot -p*#*#
$mysql -uroot -p*#*#
mysql> grant all on drupal.* TO 'drupal_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '*#*#*#*#*#';