We're going to be taking Drupal For Users and rolling it in as part of the site of our parent company, Cruiskeen Consulting LLC. Combining these sites will give us some opportunity to do a m ore effective job, and to provide an organized learning experience for training customers.
This change will take place slowly, but in the meantime don't expect to see a whole lot of updates here. Thanks for your patience.
BenBuckman.net: Monitoring Drupal sites with Munin -
One of the applications I've been working with recently is the Munin monitoring tool. Its homepage describes it simply:
Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and "what just happened to kill our performance?" problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work.
Chapter Three: Profiling your Drupal site with XDebug (Part 1) -
It is well known that Drupal can be a hog with server resources. What is not common knowledge is that high performance Drupal is a magic art that can only be done by wizard elves during the hours of midnight and 6am every other Thursday while the moonlight shines down from the north side of the sky.
Book Review
Drupal 7 First Look by Mark Noble
Packt Publishing, November 2010
ISBN 978-1-849511-22-3
Drupal 7 is due for release on Jan 5, 2011, so this is a particularly timely book release. Now that Drupal 7 has stabilized, developers are seriously starting to work with version 7, to build sites with it, and to port their modules and themes to run in Drupal 7. A lot has changed in 7, and it has been more than a little difficult to find good documentation in a single place for what a developer will face in making the transition. Drupal 7 First Look is a great guide for the Drupal user facing upgrades to Drupal 7 and the issues they might encounter.
Tag1 Consulting: HipHop PHP CentOS RPMs -
I have created a centos/rhel Yum repository for x86_64 architectures containing all of the necessary packages for using HipHop. It depends on the EPEL and IUS repositories.
Angie Byron: The Drupal Community: Where we're going and how to get involved -
Here is a copy of my slides + video from my talk at the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit on the Drupal community, how to get involved, and where we're going.
Randy Fay: Coolest modules (and theme) of the week - I met some incredibly cool new modules (and a theme) this week that have really increased my range as a sitebuilder. You should check them out if you haven't already:
Randy Fay: Views: Making a view show different content to different users based on role -
greggles showed me how to make a view show different content to different users by role the other day, so I thought I'd write it down.
EmmaJane: New Ebook: Code-Free Layout with Skinr, Fusion and Panels -
Earlier this year I delivered a series of talks and workshops on how to use "advanced" modules to create Drupal layouts without ever having to crack open a
