Category: How To
How to do simple tasks - a lot of these will be links to other sites.
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.
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.
Assembling Pages with Drupal - Blocks vs. Context vs. Panels 
As with many facets of Drupal, and coding in general, there are multiple ways to accomplish the same task.
Chris Shattuck: Notes from moving from Drupal Views 2 to Views 3 Alpha -
I decided to jump into Views Alpha 3 because I wanted to explore the Views Infinite Scroll module, and I have a friend using it on a large production site without any problems. Here are some notes from the upgrade experience.
No update.php run was required - nice.
We love drush here - and this is a great little tutorial on how to use the newest drush 3 features effectively.
Lullabot: New features in Drush 3 - It just keeps getting better. Seriously. 
So… Drush. Are you using it yet? If not get drushing!—or whatever you call it. If you're not familiar with it, Drush is a command line interface for Drupal sites. It's the bees knees, if you ask me. You can use it to enable/disable modules, run update.php, get a SQL dump of your site, and all sorts of other magically delicious things.
The problem is, it just keeps getting better. I almost can't keep up with it! The recent release of Drush 3 includes all sorts of goodies, and every day I seem to find more and more. I'm going to take a quick look at a few of them that I'm most excited about.
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[Drupal Planet]
2bits: Reducing server resource utilization for busy sites by implementing fast 404s in Drupal - One of the things that a default Drupal installation does is that it handles 404s for static files within Drupal itself. In other words, a 404 for a .css or .jpg file causes a full Drupal bootstrap.
