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Dave Hansen-Lange
May 10, 2010

The dreaded "MySQL has gone away" error

In environments where there are many databases running on the same machine (ex. shared hosting), or in high traffic environments (ex. enterprise sites) it is a common problem that unterminated connections to the database linger around indefinitely until MySQL starts spitting out the "Too many... more
Dave Hansen-Lange
Jan 19, 2010

Quick and easy Congressional District lookups for your CiviCRM contacts

By definition CiviCRM is used by many organizations in the political sphere. For those organizations working in the US one useful metric to have on your contacts is their congressional district. Up until now this has usually been accomplished with either custom code, or exporting your contacts,... more
Dave Hansen-Lange
Oct 14, 2009

Drupal Maintainability III - Self Documentation

It's been a while since I've done an article in the Maintainability series, but that's how the web business goes - alternating between insane activity and manageable momentum. This time we're talking about... more
Dave Hansen-Lange
May 20, 2009

Drupal Maintainability II - Separation of Church and State

This week's blog post on Drupal maintainability is about keeping things separated (You can take a look at the other posts in the series). Drupal is... more
Dave Hansen-Lange
May 11, 2009

Drupal Maintainability I - Let Drupal work for you.

Here at Advomatic our bread and butter are site planning, Drupal development, and Drupal hosting. We host... more
Dave Hansen-Lange
Mar 20, 2009

What to use for test email addresses

I often come across test email addresses that people have created and I'm alarmed. It's common to see something like yesyes@nonono.com or test@test.com. But beware, these are real domains. ... more
Dave Hansen-Lange
Mar 14, 2009

The dark arts of SEO and why Global Redirect won't help you

Every now and then a post comes up on Drupal Planet, or somewhere else in the Drupal community describing how the Global Redirect module (GR) is the key to improving your SEO (Search Engine... more
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