How to run Drupal cron maintenance tasks under Mosso hosting
If you host a Drupal site on Mosso (now The Rackspace Cloud), there's a good chance that you're using Poor man's Cron to run the maintenance tasks. Poor man's Cron does a good job but it can cause problems, such as irregular cron job runs and extra load on your hosting environment. This guide will show you how to use Mosso's Scheduled Tasks to run Drupal's cron maintenance (cron.php) file.
The blessing of the internet is increased human contact
Paulo Coelho speaks at the Digital, Life, Design in Munich. He tells of how pirating his own book increased sales in Russia from 1,000 copies per year to more than a million copies. His most interesting point, though, is that "the blessing of the internet is increased human contact." Tim Harford echoes this in chapter seven of his book, The Logic of Life. It's become clear that rather than causing people to be come isolated, the internet actively encourages more human contact.
Jerry met the Walrus
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace.
Drupal 'Access Denied' errors for anonymous user
Drupal can be a pain. After a whole day of development, we started getting 'Access Denied' errors on all content that should be accessible by the anonymous user. The cause turned out to be something to do with a module incorrectly altering the node_access table.
Running this query fixed it:
How Cybercriminals Steal Money
A lecture by Neil Daswani, a Google security engineer and author of “Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know“
How Zappos creates engaged employees
William Taylor talks about how Zappos creates engaged employees and empowered employees.
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Jason Calacanis on Entrepreneurial Insanity
Jason Calacanis, CEO of mahalo.com, talks about what makes a great start-up.
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