Anthony Sidashin

As a web developer and CTO with over 15 years of experience, I am passionate about building profitable small SaaS products and pursuing Go-to-Market strategy for them. My areas of expertise include high performance, networking technology and APIs, SRE, automation using Puppeteer.js, web scraping, and SQL databases.

New UI in Views

It's so exciting to see how such huge improvements happen. I've just updated one of my 7.x websites to latest dev of views and ctools, and noticed that Views UI got major overhaul: 1. New Views wizard Related thread on d.org 1. Overall interface changes: 1. All secondary forms are now rendered in overlay: 1. As you may have noticed on previous screenshot, there is a quick search for fields in add-fields-to-view dialog! That's a huge time saver, even alone. 2. No arguments anymore. Meet

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Be careful with Views Custom Field

I was tearing my hair out over mysterious bugs in my recent Drupal project. Our complex views pages, which used Views custom field extensively, were constantly breaking. The php field output could break when new CCK field was added to some node type, or some value was selected in views exposed filters. The code of my phpfields was very simple, something like this: field_node_status_value > 2) { echo l("Some action", 'test/url'); } ?> I've spent several hours debugging the problem. When exa

EMS shipping module for Ubercart

I've just created EMS Russian Post shipping module. It will be useful for store owners in Russia. http://drupal.org/project/uc_ems The module supports delivery price calculation outside Russia (and in Russia, obviously). Caching was implemented to minimize requests to EMS Russian Post website. "No connection to EMS website" use case demonstration: There are some advanced settings, like extra charge amount (calculated against total delivery price) and fallback-price (used when EMS website is d

It's time for updates

There were no updates to our themes section for a while. We were busy building big customer projects, but at last, we managed to take a break to bring our own products to new level of maturity. The main news are: 1. Our premium themes now use Pixeljets Core theme (which is free), so every subtheme inherits its styles, theme settings, and all the other stuff under the hood. I'm excited with all these new cool admin section styles and iPhone sliders in theme settings, that is what I call premiu

Sending emails with attachments in Ubercart

Ubercart has its own CA (Conditional Actions) module which purpose is to execute some actions when certain events happen -- you can find CA configuration screen on admin/store/ca/overview. The most typical CA use case is sending emails to customers when order is placed. But, I couldn't find any answers on how files can be attached to these emails. Sending attachment can be an essential feature of your Ubercart store - potentially, you can send your software product attached to email to customer