Recently I had to work on a server that was heavily restricted by a third party company. They were using an archaic version of drush so I decided to change it! I have no access to sudo or any form of root account, this made things even more interesting. No wget either. Download drush 6.2.0 to local machine Download console_table 1.1.3 (has to be this version) scp both drush and console_table to remote server unzip drush to ~/drush-6....
On the 22nd October Manchester saw it’s very first Drupal Sprint, this was run in parallel with London Sprints. Regular sprints are now becoming a great way to help out with Drupal Core and Contrib. In the UK there are now two sprints covering London and Manchester. In India there are 3 user groups all sprinting regularly. No doubt there are some in the US and in other countries. Sprints unlike regular user groups are an ideal place to flex your code knowledge and get your hands dirty....
For me the the Drupal community is amazing, it’s always felt like a family, one you can rely on to help and support you. It’s time for a call to arms, people need to support their local and regional Drupal user groups and events. A lot of these events are volunteer run, it takes time and energy to run meetup after meetup and big events. The people that organise and run these events are quite something, 9 to 5 days don’t exist for them....
I’m proud to announce Drupal Sprints Manchester (UK). Last year at Drupal Camp NW I spoke with various other northern Drupalers and decided that we should get together and attempt to emulate Drupal Sprints London. The format is simple, Drupal developers / themers / builders get to together and work on Drupal core and contrib. My aim is to provide a space where people can get together and get stuck in working on Drupal and giving back to the community in the form of code, all that’s required is a laptop with an development stack and your brain....
This has always bugged me, you can’t easily download Drupal to your current directory using drush. After a quick search I found this issue - https://drupal.org/node/495438 The following command works well - drush dl -d --destination=".." --drupal-project-rename="$(basename `pwd`)" So what’s it doing? –destination - specifies where to download Drupal to –drupal-project-rename - renames the downloaded directory to your current directory