Category: Resources
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.
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.
This is a good article and reflects what we've been telling clients -- AWS is often too expensive and not powerful enough.
A really nice overview from Level One Strategy of the different mapping modules for Drupal. This looks right on the money to me, having used several of these options.
http://www.levelos.com/blog/2010/08/mapp...
The good folks at Drupal Modules are again holding a contest to give away free tickets to Drupalcon SF. You can enter two ways by filling out the form here.
Earl Miles has announced the first beta of Panels Everywhere. I'll let Earl tell you about it ., but it lets you use panels for all of the blocks and other design elements of your web site.
So it's like this -
We keep having people in our lives who are having trouble getting the hang of using Drupal as an end user. And we keep covering the same ground with individuals - how do I add content, how do I edit my site, how do I handle blocks, how do I write a simple view? So we're thinking - hey, let's do this on-line and see if we can't help out a whole slug of people at once.
