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    GlueBox.com LLC is a Philadelphia-based technology studio passionate about delivering cost-effective, open-source solutions. Specializing in Content Management Systems (CMS) and related web tools, we leverage Drupal on Linux to craft scalable, secure, and flexible solutions.

Securing Outbound Email on Pantheon Drupal 10 with Symfony Mailer Lite + Pantheon Secrets

If you’re hosting Drupal on Pantheon and still using the old SMTP module, it’s time to modernize. Explore the Full Article

Repeating Dates for Events and Reservations

Handling Repeating Events in RSVP System

When building event calendars, one of the first design questions is how to handle repeating events. In Drupal, there are two main approaches:

Option 1: Single Event + Repeat Rule (RRULE)

This approach stores one master event with a recurrence rule (like “every Tuesday until December”). The system calculates the dates dynamically.

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RSVP-System Theme Storyboard

Flysystem SFTP ( Notes on Remote File Storage for Drupal CMS)

https://www.drupal.org/project/flysystem_sftp

Provides an SFTP plugin for Flysystem.  Useful when setting up a custom Media type that can be stored on a remote system. (Remote Linux).
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Network Security at Gluebox: Why We Use ipset

Network Security at Gluebox: Why We Use ipset

At Gluebox.com, we believe in simple, powerful tools that do one job well; just like us. That’s why we use ipset as part of our Linux-based firewall strategy.

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ECA Workflow - Detect Campus Network or VPN

An Events-Conditions-Actions (ECA) workflow in Drupal that detects whether a visitor is coming from the campus/VPN network and displays an appropriate notice on the “/dashboard” page.

Campus VPN Check Workflow

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Baking Cakes with AI

This is a little story about using AI to bake cakes for picnics in the park.
 

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Smart Date Notes

From the debug output, we can see that field_shift_date is using the Smart Date module (i.e., it’s a SmartDateFieldItemList). That means its underlying data structure differs slightly from Drupal’s built-in datetime fields. Explore the Full Article

Taxonomy Layout for Communities and their Resources

Community Type Taxonomy, sets the first position in URL patterns.
Community Taxonomy, sets the second position of URL patterns.

The "Community Type" taxonomy is a high level taxonomy that helps set the site structures. It is used to define the top-level sections of a site.  End-users do not interact with this taxonomy, it is used by programmatic functions for filtering, sorting and access control. 
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