Oracle's stills tuck in the stone-age. CPIO was a data archiver designed to be used for storing data directly to tape. I guess Oracle has some staff that can't recognize it's 2009 since they still pack their Oracle installers using CPIO. Regardless, you may have come here looking for the way to do t...

Using Drupal's taxonomy, I found an instance where I wanted to get all the terms that were populated in a particular category. Using Drupal's taxonomy feature, I create a vocabulary and then create terms I then assign to the vocabulary. In my case, I want to treat the vocabulary as a master category...

One thing I noticed about Drupal's architecture is that it doesn't pass the current $node object everywhere you may want to use it. This has been a pain in the butt for me, and probably others who extend Drupal as much as possible with all sorts of digital duct tape. Therefore, I spent some time ...

This is a response to an article I read from Rami Taibah, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Linux Users. In it, he professes seven useful tips for new Linux users he wishes were impressed upon him when he began his adventures as a Linux user. Kudos to Rami, all his habits are not only highly effectiv...