I am so glad that my Dear friend Ashwini broke the ice for us. And I would

like to thank him for the same, I followed the steps and Bingo!!! 

I have Drupal on my machine. I  walked little further and quick look over changes.

Most striking changes I found :   

1) The biggest bang, if you haven't heard of is "Symfony meets Drupal 8"

Yes, that is correct! Drupal 8 has adopted many low level components like 

HttpFoundation, HttpKernel, Routing, EventDispatcher, DependencyInjection, and ClassLoader from 

Symfony to achieve more structured code & semantics with the help of OOPs,

which community was waiting a while.

According to me  Drupal will achive the same objects transmission through out

the flow with better encapsulation.

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Hey all now days Drupal community is very hard at work in developing Drupal 8. If you are passionate about Drupal and want to contribute to Drupal 8 but not finding any source to start then this is blog can help you.

What we will cover in this blog :-

1       How to take Drupal 8 stable core to your local machine and start developing with it.

2       What's new in Drupal 8? Read more »

In this blog I will drive you through setting up Drupal project instance on Ec2 micro instance of AWS and setting up ftp on your Drupal instance. Before this, of course you have to register with AWS which is straightforward.

So, what we will understand from this blog:-

1       Choosing OS and assigning some security rules on our instance.

2       How to access our instance and play around it? Read more »

How to send Message or Invitation to LinkedIn friends using Linkedin account with Drupal?

1)     CreateLinkedIn Application

URL - https://www.linkedin.com/secure/developer

·       Create LinkedIn Application 

·       Get Api Key and Secret Key

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0) Try and flush the menu cache, theme cache
Explanation:     I mentioned this in previous post also that, many times we go on making the changes and forget to clear the cache.    Drupal caches everything in database and until and unless you clear cache, it can not pick new changes done in code. This is must when you do something related to menu in the custom module and theme. Read more »

0) Try and flush the menu cache, theme cache
Exp:     Many times we go on making the changes and forget to clear the cache. Drupal caches everything in database and until and unless you clear cache, it can not pick new changes done in code. This is must when you do something related to menu in the custom module and theme.
 
1) Check the content-types and it's fields on the admin side
Exp:    Overall, it is the best practice to check the administration side and get confirmed about 'all good' condition. Read more »

Very often we work on projects that are hosted on a remote server. There are multiple ways to work on the remote files:

1. ssh into the remote machine and use an editor like vi or emacs to edit the files

2. Develop on your local machine and FTP every change

The second choice is preferable if you want to use an IDE or if the conenction to the server is slow.

However, there is a 3rd approach, that combines the above two. If you are using Eclipse or NetBeans as your editor, then you can connect your editor to the remote server over FTP. I will only cover Eclipse since that is what I use. Read more »

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Create the custom autocomplete field using the custom module.
How to create a custom autocomplete form and to get the user names or or anything else?
Here is the example.
/**
*Implementation of hook_menu().
*/

$items['custom_automplete_form'] = array(
'title' => 'Custom autocomplete form',
'page callback' => 'drupal_get_form',
'page arguments' => array('custom_autocomplete_form'),
'access arguments' => array('access autocomplete'),
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM
);
/**
*Implementation of function custom_autocomplete_form()
*/ Read more »